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Tag Archives: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
down with dramshops
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been aware of the saying, “If March comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb” (and I thought vice versa, but that seems to return a lot fewer search results). … Continue reading
marching orders
On November 3, 1868 Republican candidate Ulysses S. Grant was elected President of the United States. He garnered about 300,000 more votes than his Democratic challenger Horatio Seymour. In the electoral college he won 214 votes compared to 80 for … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, The election of 1868
Tagged black suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gerrit Smith, Harriet Powell, Millerites, The election of 1868, Theodore Dwight Weld, Ulysses S. Grant, universal suffrage
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dragon visit
In 1861 President Abraham Lincoln appointed Anson Burlingame as minister to the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. “Burlingame worked for a cooperative policy rather than the imperialistic policies of force which had been used during the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, 150 Years Ago This Month, Foreign Relations, Postbellum Society
Tagged Anson Burlingame, Auburn (N.Y.) Prison, Auburn (New York), Burlingame Treaty, Charles Sumner, China, Chinese Embassy 1868, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, George Sewall Boutwell, Irvin McDowell, Lazette Miller Worden, Margaret Coffin Wright, Nathaniel P. Banks, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Qing dynasty, Susan B. Anthony, William H. Seward
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with a little help from the men
On November 6, 1917 New York State voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that allowed women the right to vote in all elections in the state. A large New York City majority in favor of the amendment offset … Continue reading
first fruit
“I never forget that we are sowing winter wheat which the coming spring will see sprout and other hands than ours will reap and enjoy.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton (as quoted on a plaque in a park dedicated to her … Continue reading
dress code
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper presumably sometime in 1866: [pointing finger] A FEMALE CANAL DRIVER. – On Thursday last a canal driver was arrested in Lockport, on suspicion of being a woman in male attire. On being taken … Continue reading
“pernicious isms of the day”
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper probably in 1866: FANATICS IN COUNCIL. – A so-called Equal Rights Convention was held at Rochester, on Tuesday and Wednesday last, at which a strolling company of mountebank performers, half male and half … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society
Tagged abolitionists, Andrew Johnson, Charles Lenox Remond, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Equal Rights Convention 1866, female suffrage, Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, New Orleans Riot of July 1866, Parker Pillsbury, Philadelphia radical convention September 1866, Susan B. Anthony, universal suffrage
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the anonymous eight
In 1866 Elizabeth Cady Stanton ran for Congress for New York’s Eighth District as an independent – unaffiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. She didn’t win. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1866: AWFUL. – Our … Continue reading
winter wheat
I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and … Continue reading
actions speak louder
The following editorial might very well have been published nearer the time in May 1863 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized the Woman’s National Loyal League (or the Women’s Loyal National League) in New York City. Nevertheless, … Continue reading
