Howe, Julia Ward & Lucy Stone, editors. The Woman's Journal.
Boston, Chicago & St. Louis, August 31, 1872, Vol. III, No. 35.
Newspaper consisting of eight pages (pages 273-280); ownership stamp of Esther Allen dated January 1873 on first page, old folds, abrasions with loss where folds converge on the first page, 19 x 14 in.
Articles in this issue include: Shall Women Enter Politics?; Mrs. Stanton and Mr. Greeley; What to Reprove and What to Improve; and Opinions of Eminent Statesmen on Woman Suffrage; along with notices of conferences and conventions related to the cause of women's rights and suffrage; and letters to the editor. On page 277 appears a "Call for a Convention of the Colored Citizens of Massachusetts and New England" at Faneuil Hall in Boston. "The reason prompting this extraordinary action is seen in the peculiar position that we, the colored people of America, now occupy. Many of us, even in New-England, will, for the first time, be called upon to exercise in the national election, the highest right of freemen, that of casting our votes for electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, a right secured by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and which will only be continued to us by the Republican Party, which originated and adopted those amendments despite the utmost efforts of their opponents; the party now opposing us by subterfuges hitherto unknown in politics, and which, if placed in power, would use every exertion to abridge or annul those rights, as the past history of the Democratic Party fully proves."
