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^ 467 tons of bound volumes on March 6. (SBA diary, 18, 24 January, 13, 27 February, 6 March 1903, Film, 43:2ff.) 5. Harriot Blatch was slated to join Carrie Catt,Anna Shaw,and other speakers in a campaign for woman suffrage in New Hampshire. On 10 March 1903, voters would decide whether to amend the state constitution by removing the word “male” from qualifications for voting. With less than three months in the dead of winter for their campaign, the organizers and lecturers of the National-American association faced difficult conditions.(Report of the Thirty-fourth Annual Convention , 1902, p. 83, not in Film; Report of the Thirty-fifth Annual Convention, 1903, pp. 84–85, Film, 43:403ff; History, 6:400–402; New Hampshire, Constitutional Convention, 1902, Convention to Revise the Constitution, December 1902 [Concord , N.H., 1903], 35, 93, 336, 709.) 6. The National-American’s annual convention was scheduled to open in New Orleans on 19 March 1903. ••••••••• 228 • SBA to Mass Meeting on Disfranchisement in New York City [Rochester, before 19 February 1903] 1 To refuse to qualified women and colored men the right of suffrage and to still count them in the basis of representation is to add insult to injury, and is as unjust as it is unreasonable. The trouble, however, is farther back and deeper than the disfranchisement of the negro. When men deliberately refused to include women in the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the national constitution they left the way open for all forms of injustice to other and weaker men and peoples. 2 When men fail to be just to their mothers, they cannot be expected to be just to each other. The whole evil comes from the failure to apply equal justice to all mankind , male and female, alike, therefore, I am glad to join with those who are like sufferers with my sex, in a protest against counting in the basis of representation in the Congress of the United States or in the state Legislature any class or sex who are disfranchised. Y Rochester Union and Advertiser, 20 February 1903; New York Sun, 20 February 1903. 4 february 1903 468 & 1. This mass meeting at Cooper Union, sponsored by Ten Thousand Colored Voters, was a stop on a state tour by James H. Hayes. Major national newspapers picked up three paragraphs of SBA’s letter to the meeting; additional opening sentences appeared only in the New York Sun. Hayes was an African-American lawyer and former city councilman from Richmond, Virginia, who filed suit in November 1902 to challenge the disfranchisement of African-American men under Virginia’s new constitution.On this tour he raised money for an appeal of the cases to the Supreme Court of the United States. A month later in New Orleans, SBA was held to account for resolutions introduced at this meeting she did not attend, specifically one defending African-American appointees to federal posts in the South. (R. Volney Riser, Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890–1908 [Baton Rouge, La., 2010], 183–207, 241–51; J. Clay Smith, Jr., Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844–1944 [Philadelphia, 1993], 263n, 264n; J. H. Hayes to Booker T. Washington, 3 February 1903, and Charles William Anderson to B. T. Washington, 13 February, 13 May 1903, all in Booker T. Washington, Papers, 7:30, 74–75, 138–41; Jones v. Montague, 194 United States Reports 147 [1904], and Selden v. Montague, 194 United States Reports 153 [1904].) 2. As published in the New York Sun, the letter ends here. ••••••••• 229 • Carrie Chapman Catt to SBA [New York] Mch 11, 1903 My very dear and revered Leader:— I am just in from New Hampshire and at the office an hour before any one else is about. When I left last night at 6 pm, the returns were coming in and we were being beaten about 3 to 1. Not all of Concord had yet reported. 1 The days of miracles seem about over and unless there had been one, we had no chance. R.I. defeated her amendment 6 to 1, I believe and if we come out 3 to 1, we must consider that we have moved on a peg. 2 I sent papers to Miss Blackwell and the envelope in which they were wrapped came to her hand, but the papers were gone. I hope you received yours. Our two meetings were a fine climax and certainly...

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