Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-16
speech Of Mrs. Spencer, and Susan b.
AnthOny's Memorial In Behalf OF
NOman's Suffrage Plank.
The Majority Report OF the Committee
on Credentials, Excluding the Spen-
GER Delegates from Alabama,
Adopted.
Seven Names Put In Nomination Jewell,
Morton, BristOW, Blaine, COnkling,
Hayes and HartrnHft-do
Ballot Yet.


viOus TO the rapping Of the presidents
gavel the band kept uI an ineesssnt
yolley Of music. The convention was
slow in getting to business, and the dele.
gates were slOw in coming in; s1me OF
them were serving on committees which
were in session during the morning, and
others had been up lstelsst night. The
crowd of spectators was about the same
as yesterday. Prayer was made by
Rev. George Beecher, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church.
MIR. Geo. +. Hoar Mass. Mr.. Chair
man, l am requested to present 10 this
convention a memorial OF a large mass
OF our citizens vino are excluded from
any representation here and from any
share in the government. / desire to
present the memorial Of the National
WOmen's suffrage association. APP
plause Under The order adopted yes
terisy this memorial goes to the COM
mittte on resolutions at once, but de-
sire 10 move that Mrs. Sarah J. Span.
Ger, who has been deputed by the asso-
ciatiO1 to represent them here, be heard
Dy the convention for ten minutes,
The Chsir-Is the motion seconded? +?
1t was seconded by several delegates
and objected to by others. The ques-
ton OF allowing Mrs. Spencer to address
the house was put and carried by a
small msjority. Mrs. Spencer came for
ward on the platform, being received
with some applause, and spoke as fol-
lows:
MRS. sPENCER's SPEECH.
MR. CHAIRMAN-In 1872 the Repub-
lican party declared that it had emanci.
psted four millions of human beings and
established universal suffrage. Where
were the ten millions Of women citizens
Of this republic2 When will you make
this high-sounding declaration true?
The second plank says, 1--WE have se-
cured liberty and equality TO ALL"
Again, where were the woman of the
United States? A little further on, in
PLANK ID, you say: "Fhe Republican
party is mindful OF it's obligations to the
loyal women of America for their noble
devotion to the cause of freedom. Their
admission to wider fields Of usefulness is
viewed with satisfaction, and the honest
demands OF any class Of citizens for ad-
ditional rights should be treated with
respectful consideration The Republic
can party cannot afford 30 recede froDa
its ground tai en- four years ago. 1t can
not afford to stand Still. To be still is to
die. Nothing that lives is still. Motion
Is e law Of life. To be the party that
leads you must move forward. We now
ask you for plank that will place that
mighty emblem Of power, the ballot, in
the hands OF ten millions of American
citizens, the wives aud daughters OF this
fair republic. We asked General Logan,
OF / IinOis,, who was one of the nine
teen senators who voted for woman
suffrage In the United States senate in
1874, how he could speak half an hour
yesterday before this convention Of men
for men, where no wOman's voice could
be heard, without once naming the dis
francbised, unrepressnted women of this
land. He said he entirety forgot it, Then,
we say, how will il be with General Lo-
gan if the ten million women citizens Of
the United States, with the ballot in
their hands, forget him? We asked
Fred Douglass how he, so lately msds
citizen, invested with all the rights OF q
citiZsp, could speak yesterday On the
continued disabilities CT his race, and
not say one word for the women of this
land. To 8 woman-tO Harriet Beecher
StoWe-he and his race owe more for
the emancipation Of his race than to
any man or any body OF men, or any
political party in the land. He said: "I
would have spoken for you il L had
thought OF It." So you see how men
represent US. Unless we represent our
selves, we have no redress for any wrong,
no voice even to ask for any rights. We
ask you TO open this new century with
declaration that will place the Republi-
can party higher in the scroll of fame
than all its deeds Of the past; that will
give new force and meaning to all your
former pledges; that will win to your
side as peers and coYorkers the wives,
mothers and daughters Of this fair re-
public.
The following is the memorial Of
woman suffrage, IS presented by Hon.
Geo. F. Hoar, of Massachusetts!
To the President and Members Of the National
Republican Convention:
9EETJ,EAfEN-The National Woman
suffrage association asks you to place IN
your platform tae following plank:
Resolved, That the hight to the use OF
the ballot inheres in the citiE6as o. the
United States.
We ask the insertion of this PLANK.
We propose no change of the funds-
mental principles. Oar question is as
old ss the nstiOn. Oar government was
framed on the political basis OF the con-
cent OF the governed, and from July I,
l776, until The present year OF 1876, the
nation has constantly advanced toward
8 fuller practice Of our fundamental
theory that the governed are the source
Of all power. Your nominating conven-
tion Occurring in this Centennial yesr
of the republic, this "a 9 most opportune
moment for the TesfflrmstiSn and
eoaa plete recognition OF these great
principles. Our government has
not yet answered the end for which 1t
was framed while One-half OF the people
OF the United States are deprived OF the
right of self.goveFnGent. Before the
revolution Great Britain claimed the
right TO legislate for the colonies In siI
cases Whatsoever. The men OF this ma
ton now as unjusuy claim the right 70
legislate for women In all cases whstso'
eyer. The call for your nominating
convention invited the cooperation OF
all voters who desire to inaugurate and
enforce the rights OF every citizen, in
oluding the full and free exercise OF the
right of suffrage. Women are c.tizsns,
declared TO be 80 By the highest legisis-
tive and political authorities. Ehey are
citiz ans deprived OF the full and free ak
ercise Of the right of suffrage. Your
platform Of 1872 declared the Republican
party was Laindful of its obligations
to the loyal women OF Ehp nation for
tsejr noble devotion to the cause of ffe,y.
dom. DeyotiOn to freedom is no new
thing for the Wonicn of the nation; from
the earliest history OF SCr country
woman hes shown herself as DEVOTED 6
man 10 the cause OF freedom at every
vital time in the natlon'g life; from the
revolution to the present hour, woman
has stood by the side Of father, husband,
son and brother in defense Of liberty.
ms heroic and self-sacriicing deeds of
the Wonea OF the revolution must not
be forgotten; neG SEd women then
wrought together fof liberty, t3Sether
men GnS women have made the country
what it Is, and today, In this hundTedth
yesr OF our existence, tie women Of the
aoUatry Rs members of the n%tion, as
citizs:Hs Qf the United States, ask ns-