Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ Go to the rich, the poor, the high, the low, the soldier, the civilian, the white, the black—gather up the names of all who hate slavery—all who love liberty, and would have it the law of the land—and lay them at the feet of Congress, your silent but potent vote for human freedom guarded by law. ”

“ But let it not be said that the women of the Republic, absorbed in ministering to the outward alone, saw not the philosophy of the revolution through which they passed; understood not the moral struggle that convulsed the nation—the irrepressible conflict between liberty and slavery. Remember the angels of mercy and justice are twin sisters, and ever walk hand in hand. While you give yourselves so generously to the Sanitary and Freedmen's Commissions, forget not to hold up the eternal principles on which our Republic rests. ”

“ We have now one hundred thousand signatures, but we want a million before Congress adjourns. Remember the President's Proclamation reaches only the Slaves of Rebels. The jails of LOYAL Kentucky are to-day "crammed" with Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama slaves, advertised to be sold for their jail fees "according to LAW," precisely as before the war!!! While slavery exists anywhere there can be freedom nowhere. There must be a law abolishing Slavery. We have undertaken to canvass the Nation for freedom. Women, you cannot vote or fight for your country. ”