...world with the brightness of a new idea. The chief agent in calling the convention was Mrs. Stanton ; it met in the town of her residence ; its resolutions...time) in New Jersey. But woman's political rights had been slumbering for years, when Mrs. Stanton suddenly jarred them into a wideawake activity. This she...

...organized convention, previous to Mrs. Stanton's demand for it in the following resolution : " Eesolved, that it is the duty of the women of this country to...time) in New Jersey. But woman's political rights had been slumbering for years, when Mrs. Stanton suddenly jarred them into a wideawake activity. This she...

...The meeting also adopted a series of resolutions, one of which was iu the following words: Breolceti, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their snered right to the elective franchise. This declaration was signed by seventy of the women of Western...

...resolutions with which she accompanied it ; but that one became the keynote of the new movement : " Resolved, that it is the duty of the women of this...themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise." The preceding extracts constitute the earliest recorded public demand made for woman suffrage within...

...resolutions with which she accompanied it ; but that one became the keynote of the new movement : " Resolved, that it is the duty of the women of this...themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise." The preceding extracts constitute the earliest recorded public demand made for woman suffrage within...

...resolutions with which she accompanied it ; but that one became the keynote of the new movement : " Resolved, that it is the duty of the women of this...themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise." The preceding extracts constitute the earliest recorded , public demand made for woman suffrage within...

...women from society, are not only tolerated, but deemed of little account in man. "Therefore, it is resolved, that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right ts the elective franchise." MRS. CADT STANTON. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born at...

...declaration of sentiments, which she prepared as a basis for discussion, she declared it to be the duty of "women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise," which, has ever since been the keynote of the movement. Neither lier husband, who had prepared for...

...subject of ridicule. judge Cady, hearing that his daughter was the author of the audacious resolution, " That it is the duty of the women of this country to...themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise," imagined that she had gone crazy, and he journeyed from Johnstown to Seneca Falls to learn whether...

...dissuade her from the undertaking. This was in 1847. At the convention she introduced the resolution, " That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right of the elective franchise." Mrs. Stanton was far in advance of her age and was subjected...