[National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee]: Hooker, Isabella Beecher, [et al.]:

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AN APPEAL TO THE WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES BY THE NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE, WASHINGTON, D.C. An important publication by the National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee, published in Hartford just after the group's national convention in Washington, D.C., and ahead of the group's next national convention on May 11, 1871, in New York City. The text boldly "calls upon all women who love their children and their country" to take up the cause of suffrage, asserting: "This is pre-eminently the birth-day of womanhood."The main thrust of the text argues for women's suffrage on a Constitutional basis, asserting that women were already granted full citizenship and the right to vote under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The authors call for women to assert their right to vote by going to the polls and, if necessary, by suing in court. This last point was a strategy developed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and other suffragists to seek remedy for the right to vote through the judicial system, a strategy that came to be known as the "New Departure." The National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee was formed, in large part, to carry out this new strategy.The present text calls for "some test case be brought upon full consultation with the National Committee, that the ablest counsel may be employed and the expenses paid out of the public fund." The most notable test case of the New Departure came the next year, when Susan B. Anthon

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