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After Being Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election
Famous Speech by Susan B. Anthony
Stump Speech in all 29 postal districts of Monroe County, New York, in
1873
Friends and fellow citizens: I
stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having
voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to
vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus
voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my
citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the
National Constitution,
beyond the power of any state to deny.
The preamble of the Federal Constitution says:
"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America."
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the
male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we
formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not
to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole
people - women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to
women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied
the use of the only means of securing them provided by this
democratic-republican government - the ballot.
For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the
disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of
attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the
supreme law of the land. By it the blessings of liberty are forever
withheld from women and their female posterity.
To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the
governed. To them this government is not a democracy. It is not a
republic. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the
most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe; an
oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor. An oligarchy of
learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of
race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this
oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the
oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every
household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries
dissension, discord, and rebellion
into every home of the nation.
Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the
United States,
entitled to vote and hold office.
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I
hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they
are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right
to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their
privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination against women in the
constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void,
precisely as is every one against Negroes.
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