Women in politics
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Beecher argues that women have natural gifts in the same way as men do and should be permitted to publicly exercise those gifts in the same way. He advocates for woman's suffrage, saying the woman's influence is too important to be restricted to the household. Men and women would make more progress in reform and public affairs if they were able to influence one another.]]>
Memorials (Legal)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Women--Suffrage--New York
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citizenship, guaranteed in by the Constitution through the Fourteenth Amendment. Since women were citizens, they already had the right to vote. She never accepted the idea that women needed another constitutional amendment to vote, and referred to this as her "crowning constitutional argument."

Her speech to the Senate in 1873 affirms this belief and requests that they pass a law that would simply protect women and leave them free to exercise their rights at the polls on election days. The proposed bill is included on page two. At the bottom of page two is a handwritten note: "Introduced in the Senate...Jan. 16th 1873"]]>
"The Crowning Constitutional Argument"]]>
Memorials (Legal)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Women--Suffrage--New York]]>

Her speech to Congress in 1873 affirms this belief and requests that they pass a law that would simply protect women and leave them free to exercise their rights at the polls on election days. The proposed bill is included on page two.]]>
Trials, litigation, etc.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary]]>

The Committee on the Judiciary recommended that the petition be discharged and the bill postponed indefinitely due to a lack of Congressional authority on the matter.]]>
Clark, Champ, 1850-1921
Constitutional Amendments
National American Woman Suffrage Association
State action (Civil rights)--United States
Suffrage--United States--New York
Suffrage--United States--Pennsylvania
Thomas, Charles S. (Charles Spalding), 1849-1934
United States. Congress--Resolutions
Women's Political Union (New York, N.Y.)]]>
Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Women's Political Union (New York, N.Y.)]]>
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
State action (Civil rights)--United States
States' rights (American politics)
Statistics
Taxation
Votes for women
Women--Social and moral questions
Women--Suffrage--Colorado
Women--Suffrage--New York
Women's rights--New York (state)]]>

The pamphlet includes a list of facts detailing women's efforts to gain the right to vote throughout the country, and the reasons why women should be granted the right to vote in New York's upcoming election on November 6, 1917.

New York voters passed the suffrage amendment by 102,353 votes. North Dakota, Ohio, Indiana, Rhode Island, Nebraska, Michigan, New York, and Arkansas all granted women suffrage in 1917.

Handwritten after the title are the words "without looking in" and on the back is written "or what the result will be? SBA"]]>

This pamphlet was originally created by Mayor Mitchel's Food Supply Committee of New York City. The Albany Branch of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party pasted their own label on this pamphlet instead of creating one of their own, as a public service toward the war effort.]]>
Gardening
New York State Woman Suffrage Party--Albany Branch
Women--Suffrage--New York
World War, 1914-1918--Women--United States]]>
Correspondence
National Woman's Party
Pollitzer, Anita, 1894-1975
United States--South Carolina--Charleston]]>
Suffrage--United States--Public Opinion]]> Ribbons
United States--New York--Ithaca]]>

The twenty-sixth New York Woman Suffrage Association's annual convention was held in Ithaca, New York, from November 12-14, 1894. Earlier in 1894, New York State held its Constitutional Convention to revise the State constitution, which included a proposed amendment aimed at striking the word "male," and granting the right to vote. The suffragists were denied representation, and female delegates were not allowed.

The NYWSA, with the help of Susan B. Anthony, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union, collected roughly 600,000 signatures in favor of giving women the vote, but the petitions failed to persuade the delegates.]]>