Suffrage for woman (1861）
Addresses made at the Tenth Woman's Rights Convention at Cooper Institute, New York, May 10 and 11, 1861.
Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen: I wish I could carry on the same strain of remark which has just been addressed to you, for that touches the very heart of the question which brings us together this morning.
We are seeking to change certain laws,--laws based on sex. Now, as he has suggested, there is another realm beside that of law, there is another arena beside the civil, and that is the social state.
We arrange certain matters of the statute-book; we let other matters arrange themselves, according to what we call fashion and unfettered public opinion,--that is, society.
We may gather a very distinct idea of what would be the natural result in civil affairs, if we look for a moment at what has been the result of the conflict of powers in the social state,--for there power works out untrammelled its natural result.
Majorities do not rule
Infantry, Major Shepard, five hundred men; one company of Maj. T. W. Sherman's battery, six pieces of cannon and seventy horses; and the 1st Regiment of Penn. Artillery, 17th of the Line, and afterwards known from its drab hats as the Quaker Regiment, armed with muskets, eight hundred men. The mayor, police commissioners and a police force were present.
There was no excitement other than that which proceeded from the curiosity of the people to witness the proceedings.
（New York Tribune, May 10, 1861, in Putnam's Rebellion Record, I (Diary), pp. 61, 62.) Without any molestation or any symptoms of a hostile demonstration.
（Bates, History Pennsylvania Volunteers, I, 160.) But, such as it was, this occupation of Baltimore was attributed by Parton and other writers of that period to General Butler's own initiative; yet it now appears from his own report to General Scott, dated May 15, 1861, that this act was performed in obedience to verbal directions received from the War Department th
teers, Mar. 13, 1865.
Mustered out, July 19, 1865.
Hartwell, Alfred Stedman.
Born at West Dedham, Mass., June 11, 1836.
Corporal, 3d Mo. Reserve Corps, May 10, 1861.
Took part in the capture of rebel camp near St. Louis, Mo., May 10. First Lieutenant, 44th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Sept. 12, 1862.
Servied Sept. 20, 1865.
Rice, James Clay.
Born at Worthington, Mass., Dec. 27, 1829.
Enlisted as private.
Promoted First Lieutenant, 39th N. Y. Infantry, May 10, 1861.
Captain, Aug., 1861. Lieut. Colonel, 44th N. Y. Infantry, Sept. 13, 1861.
Colonel, July 4, 1862.
Present at the battles of Yorktown, Hanover Court House, G.
In command of detachment of artillery at St. Louis Arsenal, Mo., Feb. to June, 1861; engaged in breaking up the assemblage of secessionists at Camp Jackson, May 10, 1861.
Captain, staff, Assistant Quartermaster, May 13, 1861; accepted, May 18, 1861. Chief Quartermaster on the staff of General Lyon, in military operations in Mi
v. 11, 1864.
White, James C.
First Lieutenant, 44th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Sept. 12, 1862.
Mustered out, June 18, 1863.
Captain, 2d Mass. Heavy Artillery, Oct. 8, 1863.
Mustered out, Sept. 15, 1865.
White, Jarvis.
Second Lieutenant, 24th Mass. Infantry, Feb. 6, 1864. First Lieutenant, Aug. 17, 1864.
Captain, Sept. 28, 1864.
Mustered out, Jan. 20, 1866.
White, John Eaton.
Second Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, M. V. M. (afterward 29th Mass. Infantry), May 10, 1861.
Mustered out, July 22, 1861.
Captain, Union Coast Guard (afterward 99th N. Y. Infantry), Nov. 2, 1861.
See Mass.
Officers in Regiments of other States.
White, John G. S.
Corporal and Sergeant, 1st Mass. Infantry, May 24, 1861, to Mar. 8, 1864. Second Lieutenant, 5th Mass. Cavalry, Mar. 2, 1864; mustered, Mar. 19, 1864. First Lieutenant, Feb. 15, 1865; mustered, Mar. 19, 1865.
Mustered out, Oct. 31, 1865. Second Lieutenant, 15th U. S. Infantry, Feb. 23, 1866.
See U. S. Army.
