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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

List of Illustrations XXXIV

INTRODUCTION.

REVIEW OF THE SITUATION xiii-xxxiii

Pioneers break the ground -- All their demands now practically
conceded except the Franchise -- Why is this still refused? --
All other rights depend on Statute Law, suffrage on change of
Constitution -- No other nation thus fettered -- Further almost
insurmountable obstacles -- Experience in many States -- Either
dominant party would enfranchise women if it were sure of their
votes -- Liquor interests and political "machines" allied in
opposition -- They control the situation -- Figures of votes on
Amendments -- Majority of people born opponents of all
innovations -- Character of electorate on which women must depend
-- Indifference of women themselves -- Reaction against a
democratic government -- Facts showing steady progress of Woman
Suffrage -- All signs favorable -- Women in education and
business -- Old objections dying out -- Personal character of
advocates -- Persecution not obsolete but the enfranchisement of
women inevitable.

CHAPTER I.

WOMAN'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE 1-13

Early State constitutions provided against Woman Suffrage --
First demand for it -- Women after the Civil War -- "Male" first
used in National Constitution -- Fourteenth Amendment -- Endeavor
to make it include women -- They attempt to vote -- Susan B.
Anthony's trial -- Case of Virginia L. Minor -- Supreme Court
decisions -- Suffrage as a right -- Arguments for the Federal
Franchise -- National Association decides to try only for new
Amendment -- Hearings before Congressional Committees -- Reports
of these committees -- Debate in Congress.

CHAPTER II.

THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1884 14-30

Forming of National Association in 1869 -- Washington selected
for annual conventions -- Call for that of '84 -- Extracts from
speeches on Kentucky Laws for Women -- Woman before the Law --
Outrage of Disfranchisement -- Ethics of Woman Suffrage --
England vs. the United States -- Bishop Matthew Simpson in Favor
of Woman's Enfranchisement -- Resolutions and Plan of Work --
Memorial to Wendell Phillips -- Miss Anthony on Disfra