Jonathan H. Mann 1961-2023

[David Lockmiller]

(08-19-2023 07:17 AM)Gene C Wrote:  From the Rail Splitter

https://railsplitter.com/rail-splinters/...1962-2023/

My favorite "rail-splinter" was - Lincoln “apparently not” a sexist - January 4, 2012:

[A] small 2 x 2 1/2” booklet we recently acquired, [is] titled “A Full Pocket Book of what Great Men and Great Women have thought of Woman Suffrage.” It was published by the N.Y. Woman Suffrage Association circa 1910. It has pictures of four men and four women with pithy quotes on the topic.

Lincoln is pictured on the back cover. Despite an endorsement by such an icon as Lincoln, women did not get the vote until 1919.

The Lincoln quotation reads: "I go for all sharing the privileges of government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excepting women."