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WOMEN'S
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ELEVENTH WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION [FIRST NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION], CHURCH OF THE PURITAN, NEW YORK CITY, MAY 1866. 5. RESOLVED, That disfranchisement in a republic is as great an anomaly, if not cruelty, as slavery itself. It is, therefore, the solemn duty of Congress, in "guaranteeing a republican form of govemment to every State of this Union," to see that there be no abridgement of suffrage among persons responsible to law, on account of color or sex. 6. RESOLVED, That the Joint Resolutions and report of the "Committee of Fifteen," now before Congress, to introduce the word "male" into the Federal Constitution, are a desecration of the last will and testament of the Fathers, a violation of the spirit of republicanism, and cruel injustice to the women of the nation. 7. RESOLVED, That while we return our thanks to those members of Congress who, recognizing the sacred right of petition, gave our prayer for the ballot a respectful consideration, we also remind those who, with scomful silence laid them on the table, or with flippant sentimentality pretended to exalt us to the clouds, above man, the ballot and the work of life, that we consider no position more dignified and womanly than on an even platform with man worthy to lay the corner-stone of a republic in equality and Justice. 8. RESOLVED, That we recommend to the women of the several States to petition their Legislatures to take the necessary steps to so amend their constitutions as to secure the right of suffrage to every citizen, without distinction of race, color or sex; and especially in those States that are soon to hold their constitutional conventions.
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