Elizabeth Cady Stanton | ||
FIRST WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION.
The children came rapidly, she was overburdened by the cares of a large house with such inefficient help as alone was possible in a small place like Seneca Falls, N. Y., and she witnessed all about her the sufferings of women from cruel laws, intemperance, poverty, and unwelcome motherhood. She said of that time:
The story of this convention, — which met in Seneca Falls, July 19-20, 1848, — is familiar,
with its remarkable declaration of sentiments and set of resolutions, demanding for woman every legal and civil right which has since been granted, and the additional right of the franchise, which is still largely withheld. Mrs. Stanton often said afterward that, with all her courage, if she could have had the slightest premonition of the storm of ridicule and denunciation which followed, she never would have dared risk it.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | ||