The Reform Press of the FortiesUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1925 - 268 էջ |
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Էջ 44 - We, the undersigned, do agree that we will not use intoxicating liquors as a beverage, nor traffic in them ; that we will not provide them as an article of entertainment, or for persons in our employment, and that in all suitable ways we will discountenance their use throughout the community.
Էջ 85 - United States. In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the State and National legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit and the press in our behalf.
Էջ 30 - I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slaveholding states; and also with a determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with it in the states where it exists.
Էջ 83 - Convention, demanded all the most radical friends of the movement have since claimed — such as equal rights in the universities, in the trades and professions ; the right to vote ; to share in all political offices, honors, and emoluments ; to complete equality in marriage, to personal freedom, property, wages, children ; to make contracts ; to sue, and be sued ; and to testify in courts of justice.
Էջ 28 - Texas is not yet annexed!" protested the Boston Advertiser; and the Boston Atlas circulated a public pledge committing the citizens of Massachusetts not to "countenance or aid the United States Government in any war which may be occasioned by the annexation of Texas."27 The Massachusetts legislature, with a Whig Senate and a Whig-controlled House, passed resolutions stating that an act of Congress admitting Texas to the Union had "no binding force whatever on the people of Massachusetts."28 Especially...
Էջ 77 - I would have Woman lay aside all thought, such as she habitually cherishes, of being taught and led by men. I would have her, like the Indian girl, dedicate herself to the Sun, the Sun of Truth, and go nowhere if his beams did not make clear the path.
Էջ 30 - If Gentlemen will not allow us to have black slaves they must let us have white ones; for we cannot cut our firewood, and black our shoes, and have our wives and daughters work in the...
Էջ 77 - We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.
Էջ 85 - This is emphatically the age of "democratic progression," of equality and fraternization — the age when all colors and sexes, the bond and free, black and white, male and female, are, as they by right ought to be, all tending downward and upward toward the common level of equality. The harmony of this great movement in the cause of freedom would not be perfect if women were still to be confined to petticoats, and men to breeches. There must be an "interchange" of these "commodities
Էջ 85 - ... mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.