The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-12-07
woman Suffrage IN Kew Jersey.

woman bEhF1aSe IN Kew jersey
One ofths notable movements of the
day is that in bshslf Of female sunraEs.
lseT Jersey has = State woman SUI
frage Association, y hich held conYsn-
ton At Vtneland last Thursday. The
call under which the convention was
held, was couehed IN The following
terms:
All Representatives who are opposed
TO the existing RristocTEcy OF sexes, and
who desire to establish republican
form of government in New Jersey,
based upon the consent of the governed,
ara respectfully invited 70 attend This,
is WomAn's hour. The Presidential
election is settled By Republican and
Democrat the respective claims Of the
negro and the Te5sl to the ballot are
vebemenuy urged Prominent leaders
Of each party prOpro=s 70 eompromise
by comforting suffrage upon both Shall
women, alone, be omitted in the recon-
EtruetiOn2 Shall our mothers, wives
and sisters be ranked politically below
the most ignorant and degraded menu
Let the friends of virtue. intelligence,
loyalty, temperance and justice an
The resolutions adopted By the Con-
Tention deelares
1st- That governments are just only
when they rat upon tbs consent Of the
governed, and that no government is
truly representative or Republican in
form, so long as oue-hRlf OF the people
are denied the exercise OF their inner
emf right of suffrage on account OF sex.
ID. Requesting the friends ofwoman
suffrage throughout the State 20 take
such effective political action as shall
lead TO the extension OF suffrage TO
women on equal terms with men.
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tuition OF New Jersey, adopted in 1TI6,
in force until 1874, conferred suffrage
on equal terms upon both sexes that
the laws regulating elections prior 10
1897 recognized and affirmed the Ro-
mans right by using the words 1'he or
she" and Ibis or her ballot; :" and Wo-
men did, in fact, exercise that right un-
til prohibited from SO doing, in 1SUT, by
an act of the Legislature; that women
were excluded from the election Of the
delegates who framed the present State
Constitution, and from voting for or
against the ratification OF the same; and
that the present Constitution does not
expressly exclude women from votingi
and resolving in view of these facts
that the women of New Jersey are now
legally entitled TO vote, and tustructing
the officers of the Association to submit
TO the Legislature a memorial asking
the passage of law recognizing their
right TO vote ana mhklnB provision
for its exercise.
4th. That il the National Congress
pass any law or submit any constitu-
Iional amendment extending suffrage
to men, n parallel law sho1ld be pass
ed, or a parallel amendment submit
ted, extending suffrage to women.
9Th. That The laws OF New Jersey.
which affect woman as wife, mother
and widow are different from, and
worse than those which Affect men in
the corresponding relations, and in the
existence OF these cruel and unequal
laws there is a sufficient argument for
demanding the ballo: for woman as the
only safeguard against the injustice of
class legislation.
9Th. Inviting the cooperation of the
clergy of all Denominations, and all
public teachers in the beliefthRt the in
terests of morality and religion will
be promoted by the enfranchisement Of
women.