To the Constitutional Conventions of the Four New States.
Stone, Lucy, Mary A. Livermore, and Julia Ward Howe. To the Constitutional Conventions of the Four New States. [NP: Not before 1869, probably ca. 1877].
Broadside; 11 1/2 x 6"; double columns; about 700 words; about fine.
Signed by the three suffragists as officers of the American Woman Suffrage Association, which was first organized in 1869. The AWSA focused specifically on supporting the 15th amendment and worked for suffrage on a state by state basis. OCLC locates only one other copy, at the Library of Congress. The suffragists write (in part),
Disfranchisement is a stigma. It was imposed upon Jefferson Davis, because he was a traitor, and as the worst punishment that would be inflicted. The unpardoned felon in the State prison has his right vote taken away as a punishment for crime. If you will consider the matter, we believe you will not be willing to put the law-abiding women of your new State on the same plane politically with the male criminal classes.
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