This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... THE NEW DEPARTURE. UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. Francis Minor's Resolutions-- Hearing before Congressional Committee--Descriptions by Mrs. Fannie Rowland and Grace Greenwood--Washington Convention, 1870--Rev. Samnel J. May--Senator Carpenter--Professor Spraguc, of Cornell University--Notes of Mrs. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... THE NEW DEPARTURE. UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. Francis Minor's Resolutions-- Hearing before Congressional Committee--Descriptions by Mrs. Fannie Rowland and Grace Greenwood--Washington Convention, 1870--Rev. Samnel J. May--Senator Carpenter--Professor Spraguc, of Cornell University--Notes of Mrs. Hooker--May Anniversary in New York--The Fifth Avenue Conference--Second Decade Celebration--Washington, 1871--Victoria Woodhull's Memorial--Judiciary Committee--Majority and Minority Reports--George W. Julian and A. A. Sargent In the House--May Anniversary, 1871--Washington in 1872--Senate Judiciary Committee--Benjamin F. Butler--The Sherman-Dahlgren Protest--Women In Grant and Wilson Campaign. Although with Charles Sumner many helieved that under the original Constitution women were citizens and therefore voters in our Republic, much more bold and invincible were their claims when the XIV. Amendment added new barriers to the already strong bulwarks of the Supreme Law of the land. The significance of these amendments in reference to women was first seen by Francis Minor, of Missouri, a member of the legal profession in St. Louis. He called attention to the view of the question, afterward adopted by many leading lawyers pf the American bar, that women were enfranchised by the letter and spirit of the XIV. Amendment. On this interpretation the officers of the National Association began soon after to base their speeches, resolutions, and hearings before Congress, and to make divers attempts to vote in different parts of the country. At a woman suffrage convention in St. Louis, October, 1869, the following suggestive resolutions were presented by Francis Minor, Esq., enclosed in the accompanying letter to The Revolution: St. Louis, Oct....
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