![]() ![]() What Lincoln actually wrote was: "I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. It was, however, an incomplete quotation. The quote came from a letter Lincoln wrote while running for re-election to the Illinois general assembly in 1836. ![]() Hanna in Seattle, the poster quotes Lincoln as having said, "I go for all sharing the privileges of government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women." Published as a supplement to Votes for Women magazine, edited by suffragist Missouri T. This poster, declaring that "Lincoln said women should vote," invoked the words of Abraham Lincoln in an effort to link the memory of the assassinated president to the cause of woman suffrage. In 1910 Washington State voted to approve full woman suffrage, a vote that was influenced by publications and posters such as this one. ![]()
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