Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
Mrs. STANTON said, It had been the desire of her heart to see the
Anti-Slavery and Woman's Rights organizations merged into an
Equal Rights Association, as the two questions were now one. With
emancipation, all that the black man asks is the right of
suffrage. With the special legislation of the last twenty years,
all that woman asks is the right of suffrage. Hence it seems an
unnecessary expenditure of force and substance for the same men
and women to meet in convention on Tuesday to discuss the right
of one class to the ballot, and on Thursday to discuss the right
of another class to the same. Has not the time come, Mrs.
President, to bury the black man and the woman in the citizen,
and our two organizations in the broader work of reconstruction?
They who have been trained in the school of anti-slavery; they
who, for the last thirty years, have discussed the whole question
of human rights, which involves every other question of trade,
commerce, finance, political economy, jurisprudence, morals and
religion, are the true statesmen for the new republic--the best
enunciators of our future policy of justice and equality. Any
work short of this is narrow and partial and fails to meet the
requirements of the hour. What is so plain to me, may, I trust,
be so to all before the lapse of many months, that all who have
worked together thus far, may still stand side by side in this
crisis of our nation's history.
JAMES MOTT said, he rejoiced that the women had seen fit to
re-organize their movement into one for equal rights to all,
that he felt the time had come to broaden our work. He felt the
highest good of the nation demanded the recognition of woman as a
citizen. We could have no true government until all the people
gave their consent to the laws that govern them.
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