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CHAPTER XXXI.

MASSACHUSETTS.

BY HARRIET H. ROBINSON.

The Woman's Hour--Lydia Maria Child Petitions Congress--First New
England Convention--The New England, American and Massachusetts
Associations--_Woman's Journal_--Bishop Gilbert Haven--The
Centennial Tea-party--County Societies--Concord
Convention--Thirtieth Anniversary of the Worcester
Convention--School Suffrage Association--Legislative
Hearing--First Petitions--The Remonstrants Appear--Women in
Politics--Campaign of 1872--Great Meeting in Tremont
Temple--Women at the Polls--Provisions of Former State
Constitutions--Petitions, 1853--School-Committee Suffrage,
1879--Women Threatened with Arrest--Changes in the Laws--Woman
Now Owns her own Clothing--Harvard Annex--Woman in the
Professions--Samuel E. Sewall and William I. Bowditch--Supreme
Court Decisions--Sarah E. Wall--Francis Jackson--Julia Ward
Howe--Mary E. Stevens--Lucia M. Peabody--Lelia Josephine
Robinson--Eliza (Jackson) Eddy's Will.

From 1860 to 1866 there is no record to be found of any public
meeting on the subject of woman's rights, in Massachusetts.[104]
During these years the war of the rebellion had been fought.
Pending the great struggle the majority of the leaders, who were
also anti-slavery, had thought it to be the wiser policy for the
women to give way for a time, in order that all the working energy
might be given to the slave. "It is not the woman's but the negro's
hour"; "After the slave--then the woman," said Wendell Phillips in
his stirring speeches, at this date. "Keep quiet, work for us,"
said other of the anti-slavery leaders to the women. "Wait! help us
to abolish slavery, and then we will work for you." And the women,
who had the welfare of the country as much at heart as the men,
kept quiet; worked in hospital and field; sacrificed sons and
husbands; did what is always woman's part in wars between man and
man--and waited. If anything can make the women of the State regret
that they were silent as to their own claims for six eventful years
that the fre