man's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, July 19-80,
1848--Property Bights of Women secured--Judge Fine, George Geddes,
and Mr. Hadley pushing the Bill through--Danger of meddling with
well-settled conditions of domestic happiness--Mrs. Barbara Hertell's
will--Richard Hunt's tea-table--The eventful day--James Mott
President--Declaration of sentiments--Convention in Rochester--
Opposition with Bible arguments 63
CHAPTER V.
MRS. COLLINS' REMINISCENCES.
The first Suffrage Society--Methodist class-leader whips his
wife--Theology enchains the soul--The status of women and slaves the
same--The first medical college opened to women--Petitions to the
Legislature laughed at, and laid on the table--Dependence woman's best
protection; her weakness her sweetest charm--Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's
letter--Sketch of Ernestine L. Rose 88
CHAPTER VI.
OHIO.
The promised land of fugitives--"Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Salem Convention,
1850--Akron, 1851--Massilon, 1853--The address to the women of
Ohio--The Mohammedan law forbidding pigs, dogs, women, and other
impure animals to enter a Mosque--The _New York Tribune_--Cleveland
Convention, 1853--Hon. Joshua K. Giddings--Letter from Horace
Greeley--A glowing eulogy to Mary Wollstonecraft--William Henry
Channing's Declaration--The pulpit and public sentiment--President Asa
Mahan debates--The Rev. Dr. Nevin pulls Mr. Garrison's nose--
Antoinette L. Brown describes her exit from the World's Temperance
Convention--Cincinnati Convention, 1855--Jane Elizabeth Jones'
Report, 1861 101
CHAPTER VII.
REMINISCENCES BY CLARINA I. HOWARD NICHOLS.
VERMONT: Editor _Windham County Democrat_--Property Laws, 1847 and
1849--Address to the Legislature on school suffrage, 1852.
WISCONSIN: Woman's State Temperance Society--Lydia F. Fowler in
company--Opposition of Clergy--"Woman's Rights" wouldn't
do--Advertised "Men's Rights."
KANSAS: Free State Emigration, 1854--Gov. Robinson and
Senator Pomeroy--Woman's Rights speeches on Steamboat, and at
Lawrence--Constitutional Convention, 1859--State Woman Suffrage
Association--John O. Wattles, President--Aid from the Francis Jackson
Fund--Canvassing the State--School Suffrage gained.
MISSOURI: Lecturing at St. Joseph, 1858, on Col. Scott's
Invitatio
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