Woman's Duty to Vote. Speech by Henry Ward Beecher

Lansing, Michigan: W.S. George & Co., Printers and Binders, 1872. Good. Toned with dust soiling, creasing, short tears.. Second edition of a speech given by Henry Ward Beecher on the importance of women's suffrage at the eleventh national Woman's Rights Convention. Beecher (1813-1887) was an Americna clergyman and outspoken abolitionist who became a women's suffrage advocate in the 1867 during his ultimately unsuccessful bid to become delegate to the New York Constitutional Convention of 1867 to 1868 on a suffrage platform. He was subsequently elected the first president of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). Single vol. (7.25" by 4.75"), pp. 22, [2], sewn in original printed self wrps. 1 copy of this edition on WorldCat (Aug. 2024). 90+ copies of earlier (first) 1867 edition on WorldCat (Aug. 2024).