Editing Seneca Falls Convention (section)

== Afterward ==

=== News reports ===

Local newspapers printed reports of the convention, some positive, others not. The ''National Reformer'' reported that the convention "forms an era in the progress of the age; it being the first convention of the kind ever held, and one whose influence shall not cease until woman is guaranteed all the rights now enjoyed by the other half of creation—Social, Civil and <small>POLITICAL</small>."<ref name=NatReformer/> The ''Oneida Whig'' did not approve of the convention, writing of the Declaration: "This bolt is the most shocking and unnatural incident ever recorded in the history of womanity. If our ladies will insist on voting and legislating, where, gentleman, will be our dinners and our elbows? Where our domestic firesides and the holes in our stockings?"<ref>''Oneida Whig'', Tuesday Morning, August 1 (1848). [https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc006199.jpg ''Bolting Among The Ladies.''] Retrieved on April 27, 2009.</ref>

Soon, newspapers across the country picked up the story. Reactions varied widely. In Massachusetts, the ''Lowell Courier'' published its opinion that, with women's equality, "the lords must wash the dishes, scour up, be put to the tub, handle the broom, darn stockings."<ref name=historynow/> In St. Louis, Missouri, the ''Daily Reveille'' trumpeted that "the flag of independence has been hoisted for the second time on this side of the Atlantic."<ref name=historynow/> [[Horace Greeley]] in the ''New York Tribune'' wrote "When a sincere republican is asked to say in sober earnest what adequate reason he can give, for refusing the demand of women to an equal participation with men in political rights, he must answer, None at all. However unwise and mistaken the demand, it is but the assertion of a natural right, and such must be conceded."<ref name=historynow/>

=== Religious reaction ===

Some of the ministers heading congregations in the area attended the Seneca Falls Convention, but none spoke out during the sessions, not even when comments from the floor were invited. On Sunday, July 23, many who had attended, and more who had not, attacked the Convention, the Declaration of Sentiments, and the resolutions. Women in the congregations reported to Stanton, who saw the actions of the ministers as cowardly; in their congregations, no one would be allowed to reply.<ref>McMillen, 2008, p. 98.</ref>

=== Further conventions ===

Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments hoped for "a series of Conventions, embracing every part of the country" to follow their own meeting. Because of the fame and drawing power of Lucretia Mott, who would not be staying in the [[Upstate New York]] area for much longer, some of the participants at Seneca Falls organized the [[Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848|Rochester Women's Rights Convention]] two weeks later in [[Rochester, New York]], with Lucretia Mott as its featured speaker. Unlike the Seneca Falls convention, the Rochester convention took the controversial step of electing a woman, [[Abigail Bush]], as its presiding officer. In the next two years, "the infancy&nbsp;... of the movement",<ref>University of Rochester. River Campus Libraries. [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=2448 ''Report of The Woman's Rights Convention Rochester, 1848 ''], "We presented ourselves there before them as an oppressed class, with trembling frames and faltering tongues, and we did not expect to be able to speak so as to be heard by all at first, but she trusted we should have the sympathy of the audience, and that they would bear with our weaknesses now in the infancy as we were of the movement, that our trust in the omnipotency of Right was our only faith that we should succeed."—Abigail Bush, August 2, 1848. Retrieved on April 28, 2009.</ref> other local and state women's rights conventions were called in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.<ref name="nps more">National Park Service. Women's Rights. [http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/more-womens-rights-conventions.htm ''More Women's Rights Conventions''.] Retrieved on April 1, 2009.</ref>

[[Charlotte Woodward Pierce|Charlotte Woodward]], alone among all 100 signers, was the only one still alive in 1920 when the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Nineteenth Amendment]] passed. Woodward was not well enough to vote herself.<ref>National Park Service. Women's Rights. [http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/charlotte-woodward.htm ''Charlotte Woodward'']. Retrieved on April 24, 2009.</ref>

=== Remembrances ===

[[File:Progress of Women issue of 1948, 3c.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|U.S. [[commemorative stamp]] of 1948,  Seneca Falls Convention titled ''100 Years of Progress of Women: 1848–1948''. From left to right, Stanton, [[Carrie Chapman Catt]], [[Lucretia Mott]].]]

A stamp was issued in 1948 in remembrance of the Seneca Falls Convention, featuring [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], [[Carrie Chapman Catt]], and [[Lucretia Mott]] as part of a Centennial Celebration in Seneca Falls.<ref>{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Carrie Catt |url=https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/women-on-stamps-part-1-the-womens-rights-movement/elizabeth-cady-stanton-lucretia-mott |website=Women on Stamps: Part 1 |publisher=Smithsonian National Postal Museum |access-date=22 April 2021}}</ref>

The [[Women's Rights National Historical Park]] was established in 1980, and covers a total of 6.83 acres (27,600 m<sup>2</sup>) of land in Seneca Falls and nearby Waterloo, New York, USA.
The park consists of four major historical properties, including the [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Seneca Falls, New York)|Wesleyan Methodist Church]], which was the site of the Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's home, and the [[M'Clintock House]], which was where the [[Declaration of Sentiments]], resolutions, and speeches were drawn up for the Seneca Falls Convention. The [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Seneca Falls, New York)|Wesleyan Methodist Church]] and the [[M'Clintock House]] were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |title=New York- Seneca County |url=https://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ny/seneca/state.html |website=National Register of Historic Places |publisher=American Dreams Inc. |access-date=22 April 2021}}</ref>

In 1998 First Lady [[Hillary Clinton]] gave a speech on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thelizlibrary.org/undelete/library/library017.html |title=Women of Achievement Library (Author Index) |publisher=Thelizlibrary.org |date=1998-07-16 |access-date=2015-05-11}}</ref>

In 2015, #FindtheSentiments was launched by the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|White House under Barack Obama]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-10-14 |title=The Lost History: Help Us Find the Declaration of Sentiments |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/find-the-sentiments |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=whitehouse.gov |language=en}}</ref> in an effort to find an original of the [[Declaration of Sentiments]]. The call to action was picked up by social media and several historical sites.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Robbins |first1=Liz |last2=Roberts |first2=Sam |date=2019-02-09 |title=Early Feminists Issued a Declaration of Independence. Where Is It Now? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/09/nyregion/declaration-of-sentiments-and-resolution-feminism.html,%20https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/09/nyregion/declaration-of-sentiments-and-resolution-feminism.html |access-date=2022-04-02 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A Lost Piece of New York State History: The Declaration of Sentiments |url=https://www.ny.gov/new-york-state-womens-suffrage-commission/lost-piece-new-york-state-history-declaration-sentiments |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107163023/https://www.ny.gov/new-york-state-womens-suffrage-commission/lost-piece-new-york-state-history-declaration-sentiments |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 7, 2017 |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=www.ny.gov |language=en }}</ref> To date, the Sentiments have not been found.