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Ernestine L Potoski Known only to
the American public as Ernestine L Rose
was a beautiful Polish Jewish exile from
Poland. where she had warmly espoused
the cause of civil liberties for her own
people. She married an Englishman
Wm Rose and soon after in 1836
came to this country to lecture on
social subjects her husband so
strongly sympathizing with her radical
views that he supported her in the
field & her lectures were given
without- any changes. She lectured
in 23 States. and addressed many
Legislatures. notably and many times
that of New York urging redress
of woman's wrongs. She was
the first to petition the New York
Legislature to give married women a
right to hold property in their own
name. and af This was in 1837 & after
lecturing the whole she could only obtain
five signatures. The Woman
Suffrage History says of her: "Those who
sat with her on the platform in bygone
days will remember her matchless powers
as a speaker; and how safe we felt
while she had the floor. She had a rich
musical voice with just enough of foreign
accent and idiom to add to the charm of her
oratory. As a speaker she was pointed,
logical, and impassioned. She not only
dealt in abstract principles clearly, but in
their application touched the deepest
emotion of the human soul.