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Tag Archives: universal suffrage
good question
Way back in its October 24, 1868 issue Harper’s Weekly seemed a bit miffed by a letter from Georgia, which asked a question: if universal suffrage for black men is such a good thing, why doesn’t the North adopt it? … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged black suffrage, Democratic-Republican Party, Erastus Root, Federalist Party, Fifteenth Amendment to the U S Constitution, James Kent, New York State, Reconstruction, state constitutions, suffrage, universal suffrage, voting rights
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marching orders
On November 3, 1868 Republican candidate Ulysses S. Grant was elected President of the United States. He garnered about 300,000 more votes than his Democratic challenger Horatio Seymour. In the electoral college he won 214 votes compared to 80 for … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, The election of 1868
Tagged black suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gerrit Smith, Harriet Powell, Millerites, The election of 1868, Theodore Dwight Weld, Ulysses S. Grant, universal suffrage
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and the freedmen are ignorant?
In January 1867 the United States Congress passed a law over President Johnson’s veto that guaranteed the right to all men in the District of Columbia “without any distinction on account of color or race.” 150 years ago today black … Continue reading
maintaining supremacy
150 years ago this week Henry Browne Blackwell wrote an open letter to Southern state legislatures in which he put forward “the only ground of settlement between North and South which in [his] judgment can be successfully adopted.” More and … Continue reading
“pernicious isms of the day”
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper probably in 1866: FANATICS IN COUNCIL. – A so-called Equal Rights Convention was held at Rochester, on Tuesday and Wednesday last, at which a strolling company of mountebank performers, half male and half … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society
Tagged abolitionists, Andrew Johnson, Charles Lenox Remond, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Equal Rights Convention 1866, female suffrage, Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, New Orleans Riot of July 1866, Parker Pillsbury, Philadelphia radical convention September 1866, Susan B. Anthony, universal suffrage
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the anonymous eight
In 1866 Elizabeth Cady Stanton ran for Congress for New York’s Eighth District as an independent – unaffiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. She didn’t win. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1866: AWFUL. – Our … Continue reading
blame “universal” suffrage
Monday morning 150 years ago a Richmond paper seemed to blame the war on universal suffrage (free white men did not need property to have the right to vote). Abolitionists were tame before universal suffrage. The newspaper feared a second … Continue reading
