Chapter 7

THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1887 112-123

Bishop John P. Newman favors Woman Suffrage -- Mrs. Stanton's sarcastic comments on the speeches of Senators Brown and Vest -- Lillie Devereux Blake's satire on the Rights of Men -- Isabella Beecher Hooker on the Constitutional Rights of Women -- Woman of the Present and Past -- Delegate Joseph M. Carey on Woman Suffrage in Wyoming -- Authority of Congress to Enfranchise Women -- Zerelda G. Wallace on Woman's Ballot a Necessity for the Permanence of Free Institutions; the lack of morality in Government has caused the downfall of nations -- Resolutions -- U. S. Treasurer Spinner first to employ women in a Government department.