The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-14

has idealized fact. IL was the boast OF Bona
parte that he could carry on war when his
treasury was empty and his army devoid even
of stockings. Miss Anthony has never
suffered this latter privation. The stock
ings-that blue, that familiar, that WELL
worn pair-have been always with her.
and have been to her party as
was the white rose to the house of York and
the red rose TO the house Of Lancaster--for a
badge as we'll as for decoration. But she
has carried on more campaigns upon less
capital than ever did Napoleon or any other
commander Of whom record has been pre-
served. She mounted her hobby when it
was, SO to speak, but wild ass colt, crop
ping grasses from the green wildernesses of
the general female mind; and she has ridden
it far and fast without rest and with infre-
quent forage, until it now has become a
gaunt and spawned spectre, fit to frighten
the souls of men. And now she pauses under
the palm-trees of Twenty-third street. and in
vites us to pay tribute to her persistence and
to bait her beast.
Breathes there the man with soul SO dead
that he will not deem it sweet boon to an
swer such q call? The Anti-Slavery Society,
even after it seemed to be made superduous
by the abolition of slavery, required to be
sustained by the substance of its friends, and
issued acquisitions on mankind for ''chickens,
boiled preferred" The World brought its
needs to light, and urged the public to con-
tribute of its chickens. And shall the World
now be deaf to the plant of Miss Anthony,
which comes to it, 80 to speak, like the cry Of
pelican in the wilderness and an owl that is
in the desert? Never! For whereas the fowls
which, at our instigation, were be-
slowed upon the Anti-Slavery Society
were but the chickens of charity,
the contributions which we bespeak for
the ReooIution are the chickens of chivalry
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casion shows, herself no chicken; neither is
she to be preferred in 'cold boiled" condi-
ton. But the advance of age upon her who
was already and from her youth up venerable
by her austere virtue is only an additional
reason for liberality. And that she deserves
well of her country her efforts in behalf of
the sex which preponderates in it show. That
sex, indeed, owes her debt of gratitude
| which it is to be feared that it will never pay.
She has not only wrought and written to
| deliver its members from the oppression of
| centuries, but she has discovered to them that
that oppression existed. To form party
| for the redress of fragrant grievances is an
| easy matter But for Miss Anthony was re-
served q more arduous task. 1t is not so
easy to foment rebellion and educe clsmor
from half the human race, whose grievances
| are not even sensible to themselves until an
Anthony arises to point them out. That she
|
| peculiar praise. And the unselfshness of her
| labors is as notable as their energy. She has
waged war in behalf of her unhappy sisters
against the conjugal tyranny of which she, a
| celibate, had never felt the yoke. Luther at
tackled the celibacy of the priesthood. But
Luther married nun, and his critics would
not thenceforth be persuaded that he was
not therein pleading his own cause rather
than the cause of abstract justice. But Miss
1 Anthony is greater than Luther. Miss An
thony attacked an abuse from which she had
never suffered-and from which, SO long as il
shall take two to make a bargain, she can
never suffer-and awakened the attention of
the wives of America to wrongs which they
| knew not, until she told them, that they en-.
dured. She fought the battle of married wo
men for legal equality with the hateful race
of men, when she already enjoyed thai
equality.
| Let us, then, bring succor to Susan and
forward the Rey0Lution. Let the men OF
America elevate their vision beyond the mar
row needs of their own gender and contribute
their money. Let the women of Americt
make haste to bring their cake, their work il
worsted, their pickles, and their 'colt
chickens, boiled preferred" And, in short
in the language of the Laureate, Let the
land whose hearths she saved from sham,
attest their dread commanders claim, thei
ever-loyal iron leaders fame, with honor
honor, honor, honor to her-eternal honor h
her name.