that which our fathers repudiated at
the mouth of the cannon nearly one century ago.

Now, we would ask on what principle of republicanism, justice, or
common humanity, a minority of the people of this Republic have
monopolized to themselves all the rights of the whole? Where,
under our Declaration of Independence, does the white Saxon man
get his power to deprive all women and negroes of their
inalienable rights?

The mothers of the Revolution bravely shared all dangers,
persecutions, and death; and their daughters now claim an equal
share in all the glories and triumphs of your success. Shall they
stand before a body of American legislators and ask in vain for
their right of suffrage--their right of property--their right to
the wages they earn--their right to their children and their
homes--their sacred right to personal liberty--to a trial by a
jury of their peers?

In view of these high considerations, we demand, then, that you
shall, by your future legislation, secure to women all those
rights and privileges and immunities which in equity belong to
every citizen of a republic.

And we demand that whenever you shall remodel the Constitution of
the State in which you live, the word "male" shall be expurgated,
and that henceforth you shall legislate for all citizens. There
can be no privileged classes in a truly democratic government.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, MARTHA C. WEIGHT,
WENDELL PHILLIPS, CAROLINE M. SEVERANCE,
CAROLINE H. DALL, THOMAS W. HIGGINSON,
ERNESTINE L. ROSE, SUSAN B. ANTHONY,
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL, _Committee_.

The above memorial was extensively circulated and sent to the
Legislature of every State in the nation, but, owing to the John Brown
raid and the general unrest and forebodings of the people on the eve
of our civil war, it commanded but little attention.

FORM OF APPEAL AND PETITION CIRCULATED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
DURING THE SUMMER AND AUTUMN OF 1859.

_To the Women of the Empire State:_

It is the desire and purpose of those interested in the Woman's
Rights movement, to send up to our next Legislature an
overwhelming petition, for the civil and political rights of
woman. These rights must b