CHAPTER IV.. The National Suffrage Convention of 1885 56-69

THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1885 56-69

Startling descriptions of delegates' attire -- Mrs. Stanton on Separate Spheres an Impossibility -- Discussion on resolution denouncing Religious Dogmas -- Criticism by ministers -- Great speech in favor of Woman Suffrage in the U. S. Senate by Thomas W. Palmer; action by Congress a necessity, Scriptures not opposed to the equality of woman, figures of women's vote, State needs woman's ballot.