Woman's Journal Article (1875)
Title
Woman's Journal Article (1875)
Description
A news clipping of an op-ed from the Woman's Journal. The headline reads "Only half a celebration."
Transcription:
Only Half a Celebration.
At Lexington and Concord, last Monday, there were addresses by Ralph Waldo Emerson, George William Curtis, Richard H. Dana, E. Rockwood Hoar, Senator Boutwell, Governors Chamberlain of S. C., Ingersoll of Ct., Peck of Vt., and Dingley of Maine, Speaker Blaine, and other eminent men. But no woman was invited to speak. Poems were sung or recited by John G. Whittier, Julia Ward Howe, and Henry W. Longfellow. But looking over them all, we find hardly any mention of the part taken by the women in those stirring times, and absolutely no allusion to the legal and political subjugation of one-half of our citizens. Woman's rights were as completely ignored as though they did not exist.
Transcription:
Only Half a Celebration.
At Lexington and Concord, last Monday, there were addresses by Ralph Waldo Emerson, George William Curtis, Richard H. Dana, E. Rockwood Hoar, Senator Boutwell, Governors Chamberlain of S. C., Ingersoll of Ct., Peck of Vt., and Dingley of Maine, Speaker Blaine, and other eminent men. But no woman was invited to speak. Poems were sung or recited by John G. Whittier, Julia Ward Howe, and Henry W. Longfellow. But looking over them all, we find hardly any mention of the part taken by the women in those stirring times, and absolutely no allusion to the legal and political subjugation of one-half of our citizens. Woman's rights were as completely ignored as though they did not exist.
Creator
Hannah Leighton
Source
William Munroe Special Collections
Date
1875
Type
image
Citation
Hannah Leighton, “Woman's Journal Article (1875),” William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library, accessed June 1, 2025, https://mail.sc.concordlibrary.org/items/show/5287.