I had a student looking for an acceptance speech by Victoria Woodhull, who accepted the nomination to run for president back in the 1872 election.
I told her I'd work on it while she was looking at the printed speech indexes, but she did not return to the desk. The dates in the Web site below, which took me some time to track down, may be helpful if she returns. I will put this in the blog.
susan
http://www.americanwomenpresidents.org/the_campaign.htm
Other possibilities:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWwoodhullV.htm
The campaign to elect women to the U.S. presidency began over 130 years ago when Victoria Claflin Woodhull pronounced herself a candidate for U.S. president in the 1872 election, in The New York Herald on April 2, 1870.
A wealthy and prominent newspaper owner known nationally as the first woman to open a stock brokerage firm on Wall Street, Woodhull received widespread media coverage as the first woman to run for U.S. president. And she used the influence her candidacy brought to win the right for women to address Congress, becoming the first woman to address Congress on January 11, 1871—speaking on behalf of women’s right to vote.
On May 10, 1872, Woodhull was nominated for President of the United States by the Equal Rights Party, a coalition of labor organizers, women’s advocates and others, which she founded. Her heated presidential campaign and complex personality won great public interest and her campaign was followed nationwide. Whether Woodhull received any votes on election day—Tuesday, November 5, 1872—is difficult to determine, but she undoubtedly set the precedent for women to run for the U.S. presidency.