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ke's satire on the Rights of Men -- Isabella Beecher Hooker on the Constitutional Rights of Women -- Woman of the Present and Past -- Delegate Joseph M. Carey on Woman Suffrage in Wyoming -- Authority of Congress to Enfranchise Women -- Zerelda G. Wallace on Woman's Ballot a Necessity for the Permanence of Free Institutions; the lack of morality in Government has caused the downfall of nations -- Resolutions -- U. S. Treasurer Spinner first to employ women in a Government department. CHAPTER VIII. INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN -- HEARING OF 1888 124-142 Origin of the Council -- Call issued by National Suffrage Association -- Official statistics of this great meeting -- Eloquent sermon of the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw on the Heavenly Vision; release of woman from bondage of centuries, crucifixion of reformers, the visions of all ages -- Miss Anthony opens the Council -- Mrs. Stanton's address; psalms of women's lives in a minor key, sympathy as a civil agent powerless until coined into law, women have been mere echoes of men -- Council demands all employments shall be open to women, equal pay for equal work, a single standard of morality -- Forming of permanent National and International Councils -- Convention of Suffrage Association -- Mrs. Stanton expounds National Constitution to Senate Committee and shows the violation of its provisions in their application to women -- Mrs. Ormiston Chant makes address -- Also Julia Ward Howe -- Frances E. Willard pleads for enfranchisement. CHAPTER IX. THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1889 143-157 Official Call shows non-partisan character of the demand for Woman Suffrage -- Senator Blair makes clear presentation of woman's right to vote for Representatives in Congress under the Federal Constitution -- Mrs. Stanton ridicules women for passing votes of thanks to men for restoring various minor privileges which they had usurped -- Hebrew Scriptures not alone the root of woman's subjection -- Representative William D. Kelley speaks -- Foreign and Catholic vote contrasted with American and Protestant -- The Position of Woman in Marriage -- Miss Anthony on Woman's Attempt to Vote under the Fourteenth Amendment -- The Coming Sex -- Woman's Bill of Rights -- Favorable report from Committee, Senators Bl
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