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Pamphlet : Rhode Island Women: address of Mrs. E.B. Chace before the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association in October, 1891; revised and corrected according to new legislation in legislature in 1893
Elizabeth Buffum Chace, one of the organizers of the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association, reflects on the history of Rhode Island and argues in favor of woman suffrage in Rhode Island.
Leaflet : Women and the state. Woman Suffrage Leaflet. Vol. 4, No. 12. December 1891
A reprint of an address made by Senator George F. Hoar in support of woman's suffrage, during a convention held in Amherst, Massachusetts on September 24, 1891.
Hoar was a Massachusetts lawyer who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives…
Hoar was a Massachusetts lawyer who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives…
Tract : Woman's influence in politics. An address delivered by Henry Ward Beecher, at the Cooper institute, New York ... Feb. 2, 1860.
Series: Woman's Suffrage Tracts, No. 1
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…
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…
The great epigram campaign of Kansas; Championship of woman; the revolution; Thirty speeches in two weeks in all parts of Kansas. 1867
Compilation of editorials, speeches, and extracts from journals about American entrepreneur, George Francis Train's trip to Kansas to stump for woman's suffrage. In November 1867, Kansas held a referendum to grant the vote to women and blacks in…
Disunion: two discourses at Music Hall, on January 20th, and February 17th, 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…