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Page 101 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.
Page 176 - Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women (MAOFESW) had as presi2.
Page 172 - ... physical structure and a proper discharge of her maternal functions — having in view not merely her own health, but the well-being of the race — justify legislation to protect her from the greed as well as the passion of man.
Page 30 - The ground which we now occupy is one of the most beautiful, as well as one of the most...
Page 150 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Page 100 - Believing that the most efficient results under our system of government are to be attained by the full exercise by the states of their reserved sovereign powers, we denounce as usurpation the efforts of our opponents to deprive the states of any of the rights reserved to them, and to enlarge and magnify by indirection the powers of the federal government.
Page 70 - Well, yes! I'd dropped it and hadn't noticed it, and I know I shouldn't have, but it was a queen, and I particularly needed . . . That's not to say that if I had it to do over again, I might —
Page 105 - The blow aimed at the members must give a fatal wound to the head, and the destruction of the States must be at once a political suicide.
Page 185 - WOMEN DO NOT WANT IT. Whenever the majority of women ask for suffrage" they, will get it. — Every improvement in the condition of women thus far has been secured not by a general demand from the majority of women, but by the arguments, entreaties, and "continual coming
Page 172 - Even though all restrictions on political, personal, and contractual rights were taken away, and she stood, so far as statutes are concerned, upon an absolutely equal plane with him, it would still be true that she is so constituted that she will rest upon and look to him for protection...