The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-06-30
Memorial of the Waman'S Rights Associa.
ton to the Cincinnati Convention.

C4NC9NNATI. June =, 1850.
The National " omau Suffrage Association Z
the Democratic Parry, in Nom mating Cen
veuti0u Assembled:
On behalf Of tie women o. tie country W
appear , fore ycu, asking from you the recoZ
milton OF woman political ights one-hal
the people We seek 10 sPec.a privilege, Is
special legislation buf on the contrary. thai
special privileges. special legislation, shall
De done away Ne demand nothing contrary
u tae prime pies et she Democratic party
w simply ass tha1 YEA shall live up te tbs
principles euunejstel By yol from lie time q
Jefferson.
BY whas principle of Democracy dc men as
sumo 10 lezIsiate for women
Women are part Of the people. Your very
name lg0ITes gov eminent 81 the people-nCt
one-haif the people, buf The people. Of which
women are a component part When Won
deny political rights 10 women, you deny your
own priuciples-are false 10 your own prin-
cipes.
The Declaration Of Independence recoc-
nized human rights a. its great basis. Consti-
buttons should also he general in character.
Bat in oppo igiou to this principle, the party
n power Tor the last twenty years debased
the Constitution of the United States By the
Introduction Of the word male three times.
thereby limiting the application oftheir added
guarantees TO "a special class. 1t should lie
your duty and your pride 10 balance this un-
Just, special recognition Of male rights by an
Amendment thar protects The rights OF all
citizens OF the OF The United States, and IN so
doing, place the Constitution upon true ba-
sis
We call Your attention To the first princi-
pies OF Government, not only as enunciated by
our nation, but a. acknowledge by all philo-
sophers
/ The natural rights Of individuals
>. The exact equal Y Of those rights
Our Government was framed upon a recog-
milton OF equal individual rights We here
call your attention TO the fact that equality OF
rights J. not based upon identity. fact es-
tabllshed by the difference between man and
man.
These first principles of Government rest
upon the fact of individual responsibility
The very existence of law presupposes respon
slblhty- presupposes the power of selt-gov-
eminent.
Natural rights are absolute. paramount. on
brei terms that Illinois has waved partiality
for her own sons, to wit; VIM. r. Morrison
and Governor Palmer. to second the change
able, though their degree of recognition de-
ponds upon national developments.
Not for the first time do we make of you
these demands, At your nominating Conven-
ton IN New ork in 1865. Susan b. Anthony
appeared before You, asking recognition of
womans inherent natural rights. At your
Convention of Is-2 in Baltimore Isabelle
Beecher Hooker and Susan E. Anthony made
similar appeals. Ia 1876, st. Louis Phoebe
w Cousins and Virginia L. Minor presented
our claims You, therefore, during these
years have not been ignorant of our demands
Now, in 1880 our delegates are present here
In Cincinnati, from the great Middle States
from the West and from the South. Southern
women are rapidly uniting IN their demand
for the same political recognition accorded to
their former field slaves. Oppressed rs all
women have been, the women of the South
have been the most deeply Inundated by
recognition of political rights as pertaining
to sex alone.
For you to secure the rights of citizenship
to twenty millions of women is 10 base your
party upon the eternal principles Of Justice /.
1t Is 10 make yourselves the party of the /.
future. Il Is to do away with more extended T
: slavery than that of four millions of blacks /
Ii Is 10 secure political freedom half the ma
/ on. Il l. TO establish on this Continent the I
Democratic theory Of the rights of the people. .
1t IS policy for you. II is justice for you; it /
is justice 10
In furtherance of this demand we ask YOU I
TO pledge yourselves TO secure to the women of .
The nation recognition of their rights of self /
government by placing in your platform the .
fol owing plank:
WHEREAS, We believe in the self-evident
ruth that all persons are created with certain
nallenable rights. and that for the protection
If these rights, Governments are Instituted
deriving their just powers from the consent of
he governed therefore,
Resoiged, That the Democratic party pIedg-
s itself to use all its powers to secure to the
women of the nation protection III the exer-
Use of their right of suffrage.
On behalf of the National Woman Suffrage
association. SUSAN B. ANTHONY,
Nice-President at Large
MATILDA JOsLYN GAGE. Oh man Elk Com