Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, 1866-1884 (Box 5, Folder 6)

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Correspondence, and manuscripts of Mathilde Anneke, an author and woman's rights advocate, who lived primarily in Milwaukee after 1849. The correspondence, practically all of which is in German script, contains much information on the opinions and activities of German-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century.

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are too short-sighted now to comprehend the irrepressible consequence of the grand fundamental principle of equality expressed in the declaration of independence, when even they shall feel proud of our republic for its having led the nations of the earth in the progressive march that is to elevate one-half of the human race to the full enjoyment of the inalienable rights now but incompletely accorded to the others half.

In congradulating you, ourselves-and our adversaries we will upon the results thus far achieved, we close, expressing the confident hope, that ere long the causes of universal freedom and equality shall wave from Maine to Cali, [foressia?], from [bearing?] [illegible] to the [Illegible] of the Gulf, yea that it will send fresh currents of republican air in to the stagnant political and social atmosphere beyond the waters.

In the name of the Radical Democracy of Wisconsin

The Executive Committee [Marible?] Francis [??] Assembley Milwaukee Wis, Jan. 10. 1874, Secretary.

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To. Miss Susan B. Anthony care of Mrs. Ellen C. Sargent Washington D.C. Address of the Radical Democracy of Wisconsin to the Women Suffrage Convention Jan 15. 1874

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In Unerfennung des Etrebens und [Mirfens?] durch welches sich unsere Mitbürgerin Frau Mathilde Franziska Anneke um die [Erziehung?] und höhern [Bmecte?] der Menichheit fortmährend verdient macht, hat sich ein Berein von freisinnigen Frauen und Männern zu dem [Bmecte?] constituirt, der verdienstvollen Dame in ihrem [Erziehungsamte?] das sie schon seit zehn Jahren in dieser Stadt, zur Ehre derselben, so erfolgreich und unter großen Schmierigfeiten ge[i?]ührt hat-- cooperativ zur Seite zu steben, indem der selbe dahin zu streben sich ver[p?]flichtet, im [Laufe?] der nächsten fünf Jahre ein

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