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Title: History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)

Author: Various

Editor: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Matilda Joslyn Gage

Release Date: April 11, 2009 [EBook #28556]

Language: English

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HISTORY

of

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

EDITED BY

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON,
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, AND
MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE.

ILLUSTRATED WITH STEEL ENGRAVINGS.

_IN THREE VOLUMES._

VOL. III.

1876-1885.

"WOMEN ARE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES, ENTITLED TO ALL
THE RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES GUARANTEED
TO CITIZENS BY THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION."

SUSAN B. ANTHONY,
17 MADISON ST., ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Copyright, 1886, by SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

PREFACE.

The labors of those who have edited these volumes are not only
finished as far as this work extends, but if three-score years and
ten be the usual limit of human life, all our earthly endeavors
must end in the near future. After faithfully collecting material
for several years, and making the best selections our judgment has
dictated, we are painfully conscious of many imperfections the
critical reader will perceive. But since stereotype plates will not
reflect our growing sense of perfection, the lavish praise of
friends as to the merits of these pages will have its antidote in
the defects we ourselves discover. We may however without egotism
express the belief that this volume wi