Proceedings of Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention.
Proceedings of the Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention, Held in New York City, at the Broadway Tabernacle, on...Nov. 25th and 26th, 1856...Published for the Committee. New York: Edward O. Jenkins, Printer, 1856.
8vo; 91 pp.; lacks original wrappers; disbound; else fine.
First Edition. At this seventh National Woman's Rights Convention Lucy Stone was elected president. Vice presidents included Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Jones, T. W. Higginson, and A. Bronson Alcott. Among the committee members were Susan B. Anthony and Ernestine L. Rose. Longer addresses include those by Ernestine Rose, Lucy Stone, Wendell Phillips, T. W. Higginson, and Lucretia Mott. Letters are printed from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Horace Greeley, Antoinette Brown Blackwell and others. Testimonies, reports and other business are given, including a number of resolutions such as endorsing the Republican Party and asking the Democratic Party to step up to the plate by extending its "proffered principles...to both halves of the human race."
The Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention met in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, November 25th and 26, 1856. Lucy Stone presided, and Wendell Phillips was one of the prominent speakers. The national election was over, the mob spirit temporarily quieted, and the convention was not disturbed except when certain of the men attempted to make speeches or introduce politics. The audience had come to hear women plead their own cause and insisted that this should be the program. At the seventh national convention, Lucy Stone rejoiced in reforms in women's property's rights laws in nine northern and mid-western states, as well as in widow's right to vote in school elections in Kentucky. The convention resolutions delighted in the new Republican Party's appeal for female participation in campaign events during the 1856 elections. Lucrettia Mott reminded women that new rights should be used, saying: "Believe me, sisters, the time is come for you to avail yourselves of all the avenues that are opened to you.
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