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Forty Years Ago
Women Cast First
Vote Nationally
Forty years ago the U. S. was groaning under the same thundering oratory and rolling bandwagons that comprise a presidential election campaign, with one hairlaising difference.women were about to cast their vote for the first time on a nationwide scale.
Harassed men of politics had let down their guard and regardless of whether women might become desexed or turn politics into a morality play, as opponents of feminism charged, they were going to have their say.
It wasn’t the first time women had voted,however, for Congress had left the decision to the states and New Jersey at first permitted its women to vote. But the men I had second thoughts and the state took back the privilege in 1807.
As women joined the labor force in the new factories and began to help man fight for temperance and the abolition of slavery, they gained a forum to air their pet peeve.
A meeting at Seneca Falls, N. Y.. which has been called the first woman sufferage convention in the l. S., stirred public discussion in 1848.
Two years later reformers, male and female, from the entire country assembled at Worcester, Mass., as the Woman's Rights Convention. The crusade was in full swing when the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment divided the forces of reform.
The radicals, led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, opposed the Amendment because it gate the vote to Negro men but not to women. They organized the National Woman Sufferage Association.
A more moderate group founded the American Woman Sufferage Association and concentrated on persuading the states rather than the federal government to grant voting rights to women.
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