The Remonstrance. July, 1915
Anti-suffrage
Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
The Remonstrance was the offical organ of the anti-suffrage movement in Massachusetts. The idea of "remonstrances" was first developed by the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women (later the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Masschusetts) whose primary function was to obtain signatures for "remonstrances" against "the imposition of any further political duties upon women." The "remonstrances" were circulated to offset the petitions of suffragists.
Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women
Boston, Massachusetts : Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts
1915-07
12:00 PM
English
Boston, Massachusetts
Leaflet : Equality for women the country's need: an address delivered by James M. Curley, Mayor of the City of Boston. October 16, 1915
Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958
Social reform
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
Reprint of an address by James Curley, mayor of Boston from 1914-1919, at Mechanics Hall. Curley argues that most reform laws, including improved labor laws, extension of the school age, public health laws, and employee pension were all met with opposition and seen as potentially destructive to the country. He also refutes the idea that women's votes will be based on sentiment rather than sound judgement.
Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958
1915
4 p.
English
DOCU.1915.13
Postcard : Opposition card addressed to the Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Committee. 1915
Anti-suffrage
Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Committee
Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women
Postcard to the Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Committee for sender to voice opposition the proposed amendment granting women the right to vote.
The measure failed to pass in 1915. On June 25, 1919, Massachusetts became the eighth state to ratify the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote.
[Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women]
1915
1 card
English
DOCU.1915.12
Flier : A Tale of Six Cities. Statement of Anna Howard Shaw, Helen Todd, and Carrie Chapman Catt. [Circa 1912-1915]
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
Todd, Helen
Women--Suffrage--Berlin
Women--Suffrage--Boston
Women--Suffrage--Chicago
Women--Suffrage--London
Women--Suffrage--New York
Women--Suffrage--Paris
Six pie charts demonstrate the percentage of non-natives who comprise the male populations of Berlin, Paris, and London and in the United States (males of voting age) of New York, Boston and Chicago.
The flier includes statements on suffrage by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Miss Helen Todd, of California, amd Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
[New York : National American Woman Suffrage Association]
[Circa 1912-1915]
2 p.
DOCU.1000.10
The Boston Herald. (Boston, Mass.) Vol. 148, no. 49. August 18, 1920
Boston (Mass.)--Newspapers
Constitutional amendments--Ratification
Cox, James M. (James Middleton), 1870-1957
National Woman's Party
North Carolina. General Assembly
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977
Tennessee. General Assembly
United States--Massachusetts
Walker, Seth M., 1892-1951
Women--Suffrage--Tennessee
The large headline on the front page of the Boston Herald is "North Carolina puts suffrage over a year; Tennessee Acts Today."
"Enemies Force Adjournment at Nashville/ Claim Vote of 53 to 44 on Motion Shows Stand on Ratification/ Raleigh Postpones Action for Year" This article refers to actions taken by the state legislatures on 8/17. In North Carolina, the state legislature voted to defer consideration of the federal suffrage amendment until the General Assembly met in regular session in 1921. According to the article, anti-suffrage forces planned to bring the matter up under special order the following morning to get rid of it quickly. The article quotes Representative Neal, anti-suffrage floor leader, as saying "Call it up and kill it right."
In Tennessee, the lower House of the Tennessee legislature adjourned after three hours of debate with a final vote expected the following day. The article discusses the number of votes required to pass the amendment and refers to Tennessee as "virtually the last hope of the suffragists."
Additional article on page 12: "Women Take Courage / Believe Tennessee Adjournment a Favorable Omen"
Alice Paul, of the National Woman's Party, makes a statement that NWP political chairman Abby Scott Baker was in discussions with Democratic Presidential nominee Governor Cox, of Ohio, to exert his influence on the Tennessee Legislature to ratify the amendment.
Boston, Mass. : E.C. Bailey & Co.
1920-08-18
English
Text
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
The Woman's Journal. (Boston, Mass.) 1871-1909
Boston (Mass.) -- Newspapers
Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Newspapers
Women --Political activity --United States
Women -- Suffrage -- Newspapers
Women--Suffrage--Periodicals
Women -- United States -- Newspapers
In 1870, Lucy Stone and her husband, Henry Browne Blackwell, founded The Woman’s Journal, a weekly newspaper. Their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell began work as an editor in 1883 and became the sole editor until 1917. At its founding, the Woman's Journal absorbed the Woman’s Advocate. In 1910 it absorbed the National American Woman Suffrage Association's (NAWSA) publication, Progress. In 1917, Woman's Journal sold the newspaper to Carrie Chapman Catt's Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, which merged it with the Woman Voter, and National Suffrage News to form The Woman Citizen. From 1917-1920, the Woman Citizen was the official organ of NAWSA and was published weekly, biweekly, and finally monthly until December 1927, when it was once again named The Woman’s Journal. It ceased publication in June 1931.
The Lewis collection includes the following issues:
Volume 2, No. 22, June 3, 1871
Volume 5, No. 11, March 14, 1874--missing pages
Volume 5, No. 16, April 18, 1874
Volume 10, No. 15, April 12, 1879
Volume 10, No. 16, April 19, 1879
Volume 10, No. 17, April 26, 1879
Volume 10, No. 18, May 3, 1879
Volume 10, No. 19, May 10, 1879
Volume 10, No. 20, May 17, 1879
Volume 10, No. 23, June 7, 1879
Volume 10, No. 24, June 14, 1879
Volume 10, No. 25, June 21, 1879
Volume 10, No. 27, July 5, 1879
Volume 10, No. 28, July 12, 1879
Volume 10, No. 30, July 26, 1879
Volume 10, No. 31, August 2, 1879
Volume 10, No. 32, August 9, 1879
Volume 10, No. 33, August 16, 1879
Volume 10, No. 34, August 23, 1879
Volume 10, No. 35, August 30, 1879
Volume 10, No. 36, September 6, 1879
Volume 10, No 39, September 27, 1879
Volume 10, No. 40, October 4, 1879
Volume 10, No. 41, October 11, 1879
Volume 10, No. 42, October 18, 1879
Volume 10, No. 43, October 25, 1879
Volume 10, No. 44, November 1, 1879
Volume 10, No. 45, November 8, 1879
Volume 10, No. 46, November 15, 1879
Volume 10, No. 47, November 22, 1879
Volume 10, No. 48, November 29, 1879
Volume 10, No. 49, December 6, 1879
Volume 10, No. 50, December 13, 1879
Volume 10, No. 51, December 20, 1879
Volume 10, No. 52, December 27, 1879
Volume 29, No. 5, January 29, 1898
Volume 33, No. 3, January 18, 1902
Volume 33, No. 26, June 28, 1902
Volume 38, No. 10, March 9, 1907
Volume 38, No. 11, March 16, 1907
Volume 40, No. 7, February 13, 1909
Volume 40, No. 8, February 20, 1909
Boston and Chicago : [s.n.], 1870-1912
Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton), 1820-1905.
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910.
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
National American Woman Suffrage Association.
English
Text
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 8, 1870)-v. 43, no. 40 (Oct. 12, 1912).
Letter : Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary G. Ames, and Mary A. Livermore, Office Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, to "friend." April 25, 1884
Ames, Mary, 1831-1903
Anti-suffrage
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
United States --Massachusetts --Boston
Women --Suffrage --Massachusetts
The handwritten letter references an enclosed petition and leaflets for municipal woman suffrage and urges the recipient to obtain as many names as possible by January 1, 1885. The letter also discusses the rising anti-suffrage movement in Boston.
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911
Ames, Mary, 1831-1903
Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905
1884-04-25
1 p.
English
ALMS.1884.03
Boston, Massachusetts
Tract : Woman suffrage essential to the true republic : an address delivered by George F. Hoar, at the Annual Meeting of the New England Woman Suffrage Association, Boston. May 27, 1873
Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904
New England Woman's Suffrage Association (Boston, Mass.), Meeting, (1873 : Boston, Mass.)
Politics and government
Political parties
Republicanism
Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
Women--United States--Political activity
Series: Woman Suffrage Tracts No. 8
Hoar examines the idea of what makes a cohesive "Republic" and argues that the participation and influence of women is necessary for the church, state and community to be successful and happy.
The address was printed and distributed in several different formats.
The Woman Suffrage Tracts series was comprised of ten issues, including: "Ought women to learn the alphabet?" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; "The legal condition of women in Massachusetts" by Samuel E. Sewall; and "Woman's right and the public welfare" also by George F. Hoar.
Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904
American Woman Suffrage Association
Boston, Mass. : American Woman Suffrage Association
1873-05-27
23 p.
English
ALMS.1873.04
Boston, Massachusetts
Tract : Woman suffrage essential to the true republic. 1873
Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904
New England Woman Suffrage Association
Republicanism
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
An address delivered by Senator George F. Hoar at the Annual Meeting of the New England Woman Suffrage Association in Boston on May 27, 1873.
Hoar examines the idea of what makes a cohesive "Republic" and argues that the participation and influence of women is necessary for the church, state and community to be successful and happy.
The address was printed and distributed in several different formats.
Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904
Boston : American Woman Suffrage Association
1873-05-27
4 p.
English
ALMS.1873.03
Boston, Massachusetts
Disunion: two discourses at Music Hall, on January 20th, and February 17th, 1861
Secession
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861
Two speeches given by famed abolitionist and orator, Wendell Phillips. The first is entitled "The Lesson of the Hour." The second, entitled "Progress" was addressed to the twenty-eighth Congregational Society. In the second, Phillips discusses the idea that slaves will help achieve their own liberation. He also discusses his support of the secession of South Carolina and other southern states, declaring himself a "disunion man."
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Boston : Robert F. Wallcut
1861
46 pages
English
DOCU-1861-01