How Did the Rival Temperance Conventions of 1853 Help Forge an Enduring Alliance between Prohibition and Woman's Rights?

Documents selected and interpreted by John McClymer. (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2012)
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How Did the Rival Temperance Conventions of 1853 Help Forge an Enduring Alliance between Prohibition and Woman's Rights?, Documents selected and interpreted by John McClymer. (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2012).
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•Abstract
•Introduction
•Document List
•Document 1: "Go Feel What I Have Felt," temperance song, n.d.
•Document 2: Anon., "The Wife's Lament," n.d.
•Document 3: "Call" to plan the World Temperance Convention, April 7, 1853
•Document 4A: "The Anniversaries. American Temperance Union," May 13, 1853
•Document 4B: "Meeting of Delegates to a World's Temperance Convention" and "The Seceding Temperance Delegates,...
•Document 4C: "World's Temperance Convention," May 13, 1853
•Document 4D: "World's Temperance Convention: Afternoon Session of Secession Delegates," May 13, 1853
•Document 4E: "Women to the Breach!," May 14, 1853
•Document 5: The Whole World's Temperance Convention, Held at Metropolitan Hall in the City of New York . . . S...
•Title page
•Call, Whole World's Temperance Convention, July 15, 1853
•Preface to the Whole World's Temperance Convention
•[Thursday] Morning Session
•[Thursday] Evening session
•Friday Morning's Session
•[Friday] Afternoon Session
•[Friday] Evening Session
•    Appendix: Account of the Great Meeting at the Tabernacle, at which women delegates were expelled
•    Meeting of the Seceding Temperance Delegates
•    THE CARSON LEAGUE
•    Letters written to convention
•    Separate essays: PHILOSOPHY OF THE TEMPERANCE REFORMATION
•    ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS: THEIR ESSENTIAL NATURE AND NECESSARY EFFECTS ON THE HUMAN CONSTITUTION
•    LIST OF DELEGATES BY STATE
•    LIST OF DELEGATES
•Document 6: "Lucy Stone's Temperance Convention," 1853
•Document 7A: "Woman and Temperance. Great Female Demonstration," 1853
•Document 7B: "Temperance. Whole World's Temperance Convention," September 3, 1853
•Document 7C: "Temperance. Whole World's Temperance Convention," September 5, 1853
•Document 8A: "TEMPERANCE. Whole World's Temperance Convention," September 2, 1853
•Document 8B: "Whole World's Temperance Convention," September 3, 1853
•Document 9A: "The Great Temperance Banquet," September 5, 1853
•Document 9B: "Vegetarian Festival. Banquet at Metropolitan Hall," September 5, 1853
•Document 9C: "Whole World's Temperance Banquet," September 3, 1853
•Document 10: "Rev. Antoinette Brown's Discourse at Metropolitan Hall," September 5, 1853
•Document 11: Proceedings of the World's Temperance Convention Held at Metropolitan Hall, in the City of New Yo...
•Title page
•PRELIMINARY MEETING
•THE CALL
•FIRST DAY
•SECOND DAY
•    THIRD DAY: MORNING SESSION
•    An Appeal to the Young Men of the Age
•    Address from the World's Temperance Convention, held in New York, September, 1853, to the Governments of the E...
•    To Manufacturers and Venders of Intoxicating Drinks
•    Report of the Committee on Business
•    FOURTH DAY: Report of the Committee appointed to prepare a plan of Permanent Organization
•    To the PRESIDENT of the World's Temperance Convention
•    Letter from James Brewster, Esq., of New Haven, Ct
•    On motion of the Rev. GEORGE DUFFIELD, Jr., Pennsylvania
•    On motion of R. H. POWELL, M. D., Alabama
•    Appendix: Remarks of John Cassell, Esq., delegate; from the British National Temperance Society, in Metropolit...
•    Extracts from the speech of Dr. F. A. Lees, of Leeds, England, in Metropolitan Hall
•    Testimonials to the Rev. Justin Edwards, D.D
•    Account with S. Halsted, Treasurer
•A ROLL OF DELEGATES
•Document 12A: "The World's Temperance Convention. The Cold Water Army in Council," September 10, 1853
•Document 12B: "The World's Temperance Convention. The Old Fogies Victorious at Last," September 17, 1853
•Document 13A: "World's Temperance Convention. Grand Meeting at Metropolitan Hall," September 7, 1853
•Document 13B: "World's Temperance Convention. Great Excitement at Metropolitan Hall," September 8, 1853
•Document 13C: "World's Temperance Convention. Interesting Proceedings," September 9, 1853
•Document 13D: "World's Temperance Convention. Close of the Proceedings," September 10, 1853
•Document 14A: Untitled [World's Temperance Convention], September 8, 1853
•Document 14B: "World's Temperance Convention," September 8, 1853
•Document 14C: "World's Temperance Convention. Continued Excitement--Rights of Delegates," September 9, 1853
•Document 14D: "World's Temperance Convention," September 10, 1853
•Document 15: Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, in the City of New...
•Front Matter
•    Proceedings: First Day: Morning Session
•    First Day: Afternoon Session
•    First Day: Evening Session
•    Second Day: Morning Session
•    Second Day: Afternoon Session
•    Second Day: Evening Session
•Document 16: "Woman's Rights Convention. Desperate Attack on the American Press and American People," Septembe...
•Document 17A: "Woman's Rights Convention. Meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle. Great Demonstration of Women," S...
•Document 17B: "Woman's Rights Convention. Meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle," September 8, 1853
•Document 18: Phoebe Patterson, Letter to the Editor, September 10, 1853
•Document 19A: "Woman's Rights Convention. Meeting at the Tabernacle," September 7, 1853
•Document 19B: "Woman's Rights Convention. Meeting at the Tabernacle," September 8, 1853
•Document 20: "Disgraceful Scenes in New York," 1853
•Document 21A: "Men and Women," September 6, 1853
•Document 21B: "The Rows of Yesterday," September 8, 1853
•Document 21C: "The Female Pests," September 8, 1853
•Document 21D: "The Rowdies Again," September 9, 1853
•Document 21E: "Temperance and its Friends," September 10, 1853
•Document 21F: "Two Suggestions," September 5, 1853
•Document 21G: "Arguments, Pro and Con," September 12, 1853
•Document 21H: "Miss Lucy Stone's Temperance Convention," September 3, 1853
•Document 21I: "The Last Vagary of the Greeley Clique. The Women, Their Rights and Their Champions," September ...
•Document 22A: "Woman's Rights," November 1853
•Document 22B: "Rights and Wrongs of Women," June 1854
•Endnotes
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