Autograph album. 1815-1897
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
Bartoo, Grover C. (Grover Cleveland), 1884-1973
Baldwin, Schuyler C. (Schuyler Colfax), 1823-1900
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Fish, Hamilton, -1898
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906
Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882
Album includes signatures by Susan B. Anthony, William Cullen Bryant, Grover Cleveland, Schuyler Colfax, Frederick Douglass, Hamilton Fish, Horace Greeley, Gen. Carl Schurz, William Seward, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thurlow Weed, and many other U.S. Senators and Representatives and other notables. There is no indication within the album of its creator.
Book
English
Text
DOCU.1897.01
1815-1900
Broadside : Letter from Gerrit Smith to Susan B. Anthony. February 5, 1873
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Constitutional amendments
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Temperance
United States --Politics and government
Gerrit Smith was a social reformer in support of abolition, temperance, women's rights, and ecumenism. He utilized the broadside format to espouse his views and influence public opinion, and authorized printing of more than 600 broadsides in his lifetime.
In this letter, Smith details his support for woman's suffrage, refuting arguments that the framers of the Constitution intended to deny this right. He also discusses his support for the temperance movement: "Then there are two reforms with which the Republican party cannot afford to delay identifying itself. On of them is the recognition in woman of all the political rights exercised by man. The other is the arresting of the dramshop ruin of our country by no longer licensing or suffering the dramshop, that great manufactory of all sorts and sizes of criminals."
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
1873-02-05
1 sheet
English
ALMS.1873.06
Peterboro, New York