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Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826) - (1989) was a suffragist a Native American
activist, an ablolitionist a freethinker, and a prolific author, and strong
supporter of the Separation of Church and State and was an avid opponent
of the various Christian churches and was "born with a hatred of
oppression". Though born in Cicero New York, Gage maintained residence
in Fayetteville, New York for the majority of her life. She is interred
at Fayetteville Cemetery. She was editor of The National Citizen. Matilda
produced and published essays on a wide range of issues. Eash addition
bore the words, 'The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword'. As a result of the
campaigning of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association under Gage,
the state of New York granted female suffrage for electing members of
the school boards. Gage ensured that every woman in her area (Fayetteville,
NY) had the opportunity to vote by writing letters making them aware of
their rights, and sitting at the polls making sure nobody was turned away.
In 1871, Gage was part of a group of 10 women who attempted to vote. Reportedly,
she stood by and argued with the polling officials on behalf of each individual
woman. She supported Victoria Woodhull and (later) Ulysses S. Grant in
the 1872 presidential election.In 1873 she defended Susan B. Anthony when
Anthony was placed on trial for having voted in that election, making
compelling legal and moral arguments. Matilda collaborated with Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Matilda established the Women's National Liberal Union, (WNLU) in 1890,
of which she was president until her death (by stroke) in 1898. A fighter
to the end, Gage died with pen in hand, writing her speech for the fiftieth
anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention.
To adequately discuss all of Gage's contributions to womankind and humanity
would take volumes. For her unswerving support of the woman's rights movement,
for her commitment to human rights for all human beings, for her scholarly,
incisive, penetrating writings, Matilda Joslyn Gage surely ranks as one
of the most influential women of the second millennium.
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Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a suffragist, a Native
American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author,
who was "born with a hatred of oppression". Though born in Cicero,
New York, Gage maintained residence in Fayetteville, New York for the
majority of her life. She is interred at Fayetteville Cemetery.(more)
Clip of Speech by Matilda Joslyn Gage
Susan B. Anthony
Speech of Matilda Joslyn Gage
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. That is the axiom of our republic. From this axiom we understand that powers used by the government without the consent of the governed, are not just powers but that on the contrary, they are unjust powers, usurped powers, illegal powers
In what way does the consent of the governed come?
By and through the ballot alone. The ballot answers questions. It says yes, or no. It declares what principles shall rule; it says what laws shall be made, it tells what taxes are to be raised; it places men in office or lays their heads low in the dust. It is the will of a man embodied in that little piece of paper; it is the consent of the governed.
Are women governed? Most certainly; they pay taxes,—they are held amenable to laws; they are tried for crimes; they are fined, imprisoned, hung. The government wields strong power over them. Have they consented to this power of the government? Have they a recognized right to the ballot? Has their consent been asked through their votes? Have they had a voice in saying what taxes shall be levied on their property,—what penalties they shall pay for crimes? No. They are ruled without their consent. <more>
“The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.”
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MATILDA
JOSLYN GAGE,1826-1898
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MATILDA JOSLYN
GAGE:
Forgotten Feminist
by Sally Roesch Wagner
Introduced by Susan B. Anthony at the International Council of
Women in 1888, Matilda Josyln Gage began her speech with a brief sketch
of her early entry into the suffrage movement: I have frequently been
asked what first turned by thoughts towards woman's rights. I think
I was born with a hatred of oppression, and, too, in my father's house,
I was trained in the anti-slavery ranks, for it was one of the stations
on the underground railway, and a home of anti-slavery speakers. Well
I remember the wonder with which, when a young girl, I looked upon Abby
Kelly, when she spoke of the wrongs of black women and black men. Then
I remember, before the Round House in my city of Syracuse was finished,
a large and enthusiastic anti-slavery convention was held there, attended
by thousands of people who all joined in singing William Lloyd Garrison's
song, "I'm an Abolitionist and glory in the Name," and as
they rang out that glorious defiance against wrong, it thrilled my very
heart, and I feel it echoing to this day. I am indebted to my father
for something better than a collegiate education. He taught me to think
for myself, and not to accept the word of any man, or society, or human
being, but to fully examine for myself. My father was a physician, training
me himself, giving me lessons in physiology and anatomy, and while I
was a young girl he spoke of my entering Geneva Medical College, whose
president was his old professor, and studying for a physician, but that
was not to be. I had been married quite a number of years when Elizabeth
Blackwell was graduated from that institution, which opened its doors
to admit her, closing them, upon her graduation, to women, until since
its union with the Syracuse University.
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Speeches/Writings of
Matilda Joslyn Gage
National Woman's Rights
Convention, 1852
On the Progress
of Education and
Industrial Avocations for Women
by Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1871
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