He argued that voting would expose women to future dangers, such as holding public office or serving in the military, and it would sully feminine virtue with the corruption of party politics. Abram Hewitt’s own treatise against women’s suffrage, published in 1894, repeated the anti-suffrage movement’s core beliefs. The Hewitt family was opposed to granting women the right to vote. Miss Hewitt probably declined the invitation. Anthony wrote, “I shall be delighted to be able to announce on the 3rd edition of the program that Miss Hewitt-daughter of Mayor Hewitt of New York-will lead the singing or the music.” At the time, such ceremonial honors were limited to men, but Anthony hoped that a “woman will yet appear who can and will do it!!” Anthony invited one of the Hewitt sisters-Sarah or Eleanor, daughters of New York City mayor Abram Hewitt-to lead the singing at an upcoming meeting of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Courtesy of The Cooper Union Archive and Special Collections.
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