Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
Humanity is the whole. Men alone are half a sphere; women alone
half a sphere; men and women together the whole of truth, the
whole of love, the whole of aspiration. We have come to recognize
this thought in nearly all the walks of life. We want to
acknowledge it in the unity of mankind. The central thought we
need in our creeds and in our lives is that of the solidarity and
brotherhood of the race. This movement derives its greatest
significance not because it opens a place here and there for
women; not because it enables women to help men; but because in
all the concerns of life it places man and woman side by side,
hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, putting their best thought,
their finest feeling, their highest aspiration, into the work of
the world. This reflection gives us a lasting and sublime
satisfaction amid defeat and derision. Whatever of fortune or
misfortune befalls the Suffrage Association in the carrying on of
its work, this belief is the root which is calculated to sustain
and inspire us--that this movement is the next step in the
progress of the race towards the unification of humanity....
I look forward to the time when men and women, labor and capital,
all classes and all sections, shall work side by side with one
great co-operative spirit, the denizens of the world and the
keepers of human progress. When that time comes we may not have
reached the millennium but we shall be nearer to it. We shall
then together establish justice, temperance, purity of life, as
never has been done before. Earth's aspirations then shall grow
to events. The indescribable--that shall then be done.
U. S. Senator Joseph M. Carey was introduced by Miss Anthony as "the
man who on the floor of Congress fought Wyoming's battle for
Statehood." His address on Wyoming, the True Republic, was a leading
feature of the convention. He said in part:
On the tenth day of July last, the State of Wyoming was born and
the forty-fourth star took its place on the old flag. Never was
first-born more warmly welcomed, for not only had a commonwealth
been created, but the principle of equality of citizenship
without regard to sex had been fully recognized and incorporated
as a part of the constitution of the new State.
The adoption of a woman suffrage bill by the first Territorial
Legislature was graphically described, and after relating the
subsequent efforts for its repeal, and its incorporation finally into
the State constitution, he told of the struggle in Congress and said:
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