Identifier: storyofhutchinso01inhutc (find matches)
Title: Story of the Hutchinsons (tribe of Jesse)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hutchinson, John W. (John Wallace), 1821-1908 Mann, Charles E. (Charles Edward), b. 1857 Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subjects: Hutchinson family Hutchinson Family (Singers) Singers Abolitionists
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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to submit to the people three propositions foramendments to the Constitution, one to strike from itthe word white, thus enfranchising all male citizensof the age of twenty-one years, without respect tocolor ; another striking out the word male, thus en-franchising all women of the age of twenty-one years,without regard to color ; third, restricting the electivefranchise to lo3al persons. The result of the actionwas to inaugurate one of the historic political battlesof our time, the first contest for woman suffrage inthis country. During the spring, Lucy Stone had gone into Kansaslecturing in behalf of the emancipation of woman.Witli the exception of her advocacy of masculine dressand the fact that though a married woman she contin-ued to use the name of Mrs. Lucy Stone, the im-pression she created was of the most favorable charac-ter. When she returned, she communicated to me herconviction that the Hutchinsons could do a work forsuffrage as singing evangelists second only to that they
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KKPKK.SENTATIVE WOMEX—tp. 437; MORAL REFORM WORK. 437 did for abolition, by going into Kansas in this crisis. Iremembered how years before I had been disappointedin my plans to go to Bleeding Kansas, and saw inthis opening an opportunity to do for the State in an-other direction what I had been unable to do then. Ialso was thinking seriously of buying a new township,and establishing the Hutchinson in Kansas thatfailed of being founded when Hutchinson, Minnesota,was settled. Brother Asa was living in the otherHutchinson, and I felt like leaving it to him, as hehad become so fully identified with it. Mrs. Stonelater put me in communication with Colonel S. N.Wood, of Cottonwood Falls, Kan., chairman of thecommittee of prominent friends of universal suffrage,who had taken up the cudgels in favor of all three ofthe proposed amendments. I was not long in makingan agreement with him to go campaigning in the State.Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and otherprominent speakers were eng

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