Anthony, Susan Brownell. Letter to Mary Post Hallowell.

Title

Anthony, Susan Brownell. Letter to Mary Post Hallowell.

Creator

Anthony, Susan Brownell

Contributor

Mary Post Hallowell

Date

1867-04-11

Description

Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Mary Post Hallowell. Anthony writes to Hallowell asking her to review the 1848 Seneca Falls and Rochester convention reports.

Subject

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

1632

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

Lockport Apr. 11/67

Dear Mary

Mrs. Stanton ‘s
voice is better to dy [sic] -
We just caught a
glimpse of William
on Cars yesterday -
Learned that P.P was
better & gone over
to Madison street-
- So Mrs. Stanton
sees her chance for
Sunday there is small-
and desires me to say
to you that she will
come to your house

(Page 2)

and hopes that your
mother- Amy Post – will
have the Rochester &
Seneca Falls Woman’s
Rights – Convention
Reports at your house-
and that both you &
your mother may be able
to sit down with her
and make a final Decision
and correction of those docu
ments – I hope you suc
ceded in getting Parker to
the picture gallery- Mrs. S &
I shall stop there Saturday
A.M. when we get into Rochester
( Fox & Gates) – Truly. S. B. Anthony

(Page 3)

                                       First Anniversary
                                                 of the
                          American Equal Rights Association

       The first annual meeting of the American Equal Rights
Association will be held in the City of New York, at the Church
of the Puritans, on Thursday and Friday, the ninth and tenth
of May next, commencing on Thursday morning at 10 o’clock.
       The object of this Association is to secure Equal Rights
to all American Citizens, especially the Right of Suffrage, irre-
spective of race, color or sex.
       American Democracy has interpreted the Declaration of
Independence in the interest of slavery, restricting suffrage and
citizenship to a white, male, minority.
      The black man is still denied the crowning right of citizen-
ship, even in the nominally free states, though the fires of civil
war have melted the chains of chattelism, and a hundred battle-
fields attest his courage and patriotism.
        Half our population are disfranchised on the ground of sex;
and though compelled to obey the law and taxed to support the
government, they have no voice in the legislation of the country.
      This Association then has a mission to perform, the magni-
tude and importance of which cannot be over-estimated.
      The recent war has unsettled all our governmental founda-
tions. Let us see that in their restoration, all these unjust
proscriptions are avoided. Let Democracy be defined anew, as
the Government of the people, AND THE WHOLE PEOPLE.
      Let the gathering then at this anniversary, be in numbers
and character, worthy in some degree the demands of the house.
The black man, even the black soldier, is yet but half emanci-
pated, nor will he be, until his full suffrage and citizenship are
secured to him in the Federal Constitution. Still more deplora-
able is the condition of the black woman; and legally, that of the
white woman is no better!
        Shall the sun of the nineteenth century go down on wrongs
like these, in this nation, consecrated in its infancy to justice
and freedom? Rather let our meeting be pledge as well as
prophecy to the world of mankind, that the redemption of at
least one great nation is near at hand
     In behalf of the American Equal Rights Association.
                                                      Lucretia Mott, Prez
      Susan B. Anthony, Cor. Sec’y
      Henry B. Blackwell, Rec. Sec’y
New York, 12^th March, 1867
       [Communications relating to this Anniversary, and donations in aid
of its objects, to be addressed to Susan B Anthony, 464 West Thirty-
fourth street, New York.]

(Page 4)

The train must get
into R. about 10 A.M.
So Mrs. S. will be
round to dinner -

Annotations

Susan B. Anthony, a woman’s rights activist, writes from Lockport, New York to Mary Post Hallowell. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a woman's rights leader. William Hallowell was Mary's husband. P.P. could refer to Parker Pillsbury was a Minister, abolitionist, writer, women’s rights activist, co-edited the women’s rights newspaper- The Revolution. Both the Rochester and Seneca Falls conventions took place in 1848. The announcement for the American Equal Rights Association meeting documents an organization that began in 1866 to address both male and female rights.

Tags

Women's Rights

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Anthony, Susan Brownell, “Anthony, Susan Brownell. Letter to Mary Post Hallowell.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 24, 2024, https://rclomeka2.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3919.

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