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| CRG |
Orange, N. J.
Mr. Mandeville, Tax Collector,
Sir:
For years some women have contrary to our theory of government
been paying their taxes under protest but still taxes are imposed and
representation is not granted. The only course now left us is to refuse
to pay the tax. We know well what the immediate result of this
refusal must be.
But we believe that when the attention of men is called to the wide
difference between their theory of government and its practices in
this particular, they cannot fail to see the mistake they now make by
imposing taxes on women, while they refuse them the right of
suffrage, and that the sense of justice which is in all good men, will
lead them to correct it. Then shall we cheerfully pay our taxes---not
till then.
Respectfully,
Lucy Stone
Mr. Mandeville, Tax Collector,
Sir:
For years some women have contrary to our theory of government
been paying their taxes under protest but still taxes are imposed and
representation is not granted. The only course now left us is to refuse
to pay the tax. We know well what the immediate result of this
refusal must be.
But we believe that when the attention of men is called to the wide
difference between their theory of government and its practices in
this particular, they cannot fail to see the mistake they now make by
imposing taxes on women, while they refuse them the right of
suffrage, and that the sense of justice which is in all good men, will
lead them to correct it. Then shall we cheerfully pay our taxes---not
till then.
Respectfully,
Lucy Stone
| Source, Orange Journal, January 18, 1858 In 1857 Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell moved to a small farm in Orange. The property was owned by Stone and when her tax bill came in November, she refused to pay her taxes and wrote her famous protest to the tax collector. This letter was published in the press at the time some of her effects were sold at a tax sale. |
