Book/Printed Material Proceedings at the presentation to the Hon. Robert Dale Owen of a silver pitcher, on behalf of the women of Indiana, on the 28th day of May, 1851 General Collections copy
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Image 1 of General Collections copy PROCEEDINGS AT THE PRESENTATION TO THE HON. ROBERT DALE OWEN OF A ✓ SILVER PITCHER, ON BEHALF OF THE WOMEN OF INDIANA, ON THE 28TH DAY OF MAY, 1851. NEW ALBANY, IND.:…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 2 of General Collections copy PROCEEDINGS AT THE PRESENTATION TO THE HON. ROBERT DALE OWEN OF A SILVER PITCHER, ON BEHALF OF THE WOMEN OF INDIANA, ON THE 28TH DAY OF MAY, 1851. NEW ALBANY, IND.: KENT…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 3 of General Collections copy HQ 1438 I5 P7 82-91485 Source Unknown Aug. 22, 1933- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 4 of General Collections copy SILVER PITCHER PRESENTATION. Pending the session of the Constitutional Convention, convened at Indianapolis, during the winter of 1850-51, the following card appeared in the daily papers of the city: “Owen Testimonial. —…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 5 of General Collections copy 4 the Presentation Address, the 28th of May was appointed as the day, and the Hall of the House of Representatives (obtained last winter for the purpose, by a vote of the…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 6 of General Collections copy 5 to secure to them certain legal rights in relation to property. I will take this occasion to say, that the rights denied to our countrywomen, and for his advocacy of which…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 7 of General Collections copy 6 view of their capabilities and necessities, they will obtain from our sex a willing acquiescence in their reasonable demands. Professor LARRABEE, to whom the ladies had delegated the duty of presenting…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 8 of General Collections copy 7 The women of Indiana have not asked eligibility to places of power and to offices of government, though they remember there once was a woman, the fair Isabella of blessed memory,…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 9 of General Collections copy 8 owner against the improvidence of the reckless, and the avarice of the conscienceless. That is all they have asked. The reasonableness, the justice, the expediency, and the evangelism of such a…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 10 of General Collections copy 9 appeared on earth, but far, immeasurably far, in advance of our own age. An enlightened interpretation of the Bible would sanction, and the spirit of Christianity would demand, much more radical…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 11 of General Collections copy 10 might the Persian tyrant succeed in chaining the waves of the sea, lest they smash his ferry-boat, than might moral man resist the tide of reform. He had better launch his…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 12 of General Collections copy 11 integrity of character, and the singleness of purpose that impelled you to advocate unselfishly and perseveringly those invaluable and necessary rights, which custom, prejudice, and inconsiderate legislation have hitherto withheld from…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 13 of General Collections copy 12 duty so plain and simple, that its neglect must have subjected him, at the bar of conscience, for ever after, to merited self-reproach. Yet not the less, because of my small…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 14 of General Collections copy 13 The same words reached the ears of all; the words (how often repeated since!) that “these United States are, and of right ought to be, free and independent.” All heard the…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 15 of General Collections copy 14 it was, not the loyal colonists of Great Britain, but the fair ladies of our own State, then gracing these seats with their presence, who were spoken of as “unconscious slaves,”…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 16 of General Collections copy 15 Ah! poor Nature! how many sins, what thousand abuses, are loaded on thy shoulders! How eagerly is thy sanction suborned, to justify heartless oppression, to legalize cold blooded injustice! But special…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 17 of General Collections copy 16 contrary to the genius and spirit of the Christian Scriptures. I assert—as I rejoice to find you, sir, also asserting—that, in the general spirit and tendency of its doctrines, Christianity not…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 18 of General Collections copy 17 he domestic exchequer, and you kill all that delicate sentiment and refined feeling, that forms the indissoluble cement of the marriage relation.” And again: “It will prove the most Fatal present…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 19 of General Collections copy 18 and why did he then quote, with marked approbation, the reasons given by Livy in support of that sumptuary law? Here are the words quoted: “It was thought, that, to the…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 20 of General Collections copy 19 for instance, does she, as frequently as some unprincipled father does, spend in riot and debauchery, in drunkenness, at the gambling table, or on some favored minion, the money that should…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 21 of General Collections copy 20 aid women in humble circumstances, to secure to themselves, by moderate industry, a decent living; legally to acquire, independently to possess, safely to enjoy, that property, more humanizing than a hundred…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 22 of General Collections copy 21 the utmost exertions, the humblest living; it was, I say, but the year before last, that Mrs. Farnham proposed, if a sufficient number of such young women would join her, to…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 23 of General Collections copy 22 and its pioneer the periodical press, encourage or tolerate these, we may talk, as we will, of Christian civilization, the Pharisee who thanked God that he was not as other men,…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 24 of General Collections copy 23 hands. But is that any reason why she should not be secured against brutal injury? why the law should not interpose its protecting shield between her and a murderer? How much…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 25 of General Collections copy 24 may receive by inheritance, or by gift, grant, devise or bequest, and hold to her sole and separate use, real and personal property;” and may “convey and devise real and personal…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 26 of General Collections copy 25 Women, then, who have been fortunate enough to acquire land, are already recognized, by our laws, as independent owners of property. The income annually derived from real estate cannot be seized…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 27 of General Collections copy 26 among us. So it has been elsewhere. A gentlemen resident in New York, lately informed me, that the same result had followed in their State, though the law there, as I…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 28 of General Collections copy 27 That other face that now turns proudly to hers, is frank and bold; the bearing seems to mark kindness, uprightness, generosity. Alas! you know— though she, poor child! has forgotten —that…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
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Image 29 of General Collections copy 28 that time was, when the law took from wives their property, and from parents the right to convey what they would, to a child. That exertions of mine may have contributed,…- Contributor: Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1851
About this Item
Title
- Proceedings at the presentation to the Hon. Robert Dale Owen of a silver pitcher, on behalf of the women of Indiana, on the 28th day of May, 1851
Summary
- In 1851, Indiana adopted a state constitution that included a measure protecting the property rights of married women. Robert Dale Owen was the chief architect of this provision and the women of Indiana honored him with a silver pitcher. This pamphlet details the ceremony surrounding this presentation, including speeches by Professor W.C. Larrabee of Indian Asbury University and Robert Dale Owen. What is interesting here is the very narrow way in which the women define their role in society and their prosition vis-a-vis women's rights.
Names
- Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893, former owner
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New Albany, Ind. : Kent & Norman, Printers, 1851.
Headings
- - Women--Legal status, laws, etc
- - Owen, Robert Dale,--1801-1877
Notes
- - LAC ecr 2020-11-30 update (1 card)
Medium
- 28 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- HQ1438.I5 P7
- JK1881 .N357 sec. I, no. 146a, #5 Another copy. 21 cm. Formerly owned by Lucy Stone. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938.
- JK1881 .N357 sec. VII, no. 1, #12 Another copy. Bookplate: library, Carrie Chapman Catt. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- tmp82091485
Online Format
- online text
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