The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-09-16
OUR PORTLAND LETTER.
PORTLAND, Sept. 18th, 1871.

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Susan B. Anthony is a lady having
a very wide extended reputation as
an earnest and untiring worker in
a movement which has for its object
a material change in the political
status of woman, by permitting her
to exercise the elective franchise.
Many persons whose Intellectual
culture aud high social position
in this city, give to them a COM
manding influence, invited Miss
Anthony to visit Oregon for the
purpose of lecturing upon her favor
ite subject. This she consented to
do. 1t having been announced that
she would deliver her first lecture
at the Orc Fino Theatre at u
o'clock p. NJ. on last Wednesday,
the tickets of admission were eagerly
bought up, and as soon as the doors
were opened the House began to fill,
so that iii a marvelously short time
many who desired to buy tickets of
admission, were informed that it
was impossible to crowd more per-
sons into tie building 1t may per-
haps be we'll to remark that a large
ma ajority of tie persons present
were not drawn thither by any
sympathy which they Lad with the
speaker in her peculiar views Gf
indeed they can any longer be called
peculiarly, but becaueS they desired
to hear oi.e who has long aId justly
:. been regarded as very marked
representative of her class, and they
naturally enough wished to hear
what size could say upon the sub
iect of woman suffrage.
When Miss Anthony came for
ward and bowed 10 her audience, it
is scarcely probable that her appear
ance made the most agreeable I'M
pressions. Her frame is large and
muscular her manner rather un-
graceful her coulIteIance Intellect
ual; and her whole appearance that
of one fully prepared and ready for
the rough encounters of the great
battle of life. And with it, it was
, evident that she was refined and
intellectual lady, perfectly self
poised and without any indications
, | in her manner that she had any
! thought of herself or indeed of any
thing other than her subject. AT
first | thought her almost homely.
, But as the subject warmed her and
the fire of intellect at length kindled
5 in hereyes lighting up tic strong fea-
, lures of her face and the rough
channels of thought, she seemed
: like another woman,
| Mrs. A. J. Duniway. editor o.
3 the Ncao Northacest, introduced
E the speaker by annouEci g her name
and by saying that the subject o
, Woman's Rights is subject, ehal
S longing the attention of persons o.
thought, arose in the east like lit
: tie cloud at first no larger than q
: tcona1t's hand. But that it grad
/: ually asceEdcd above the horizon
8 charging as it approached the
zenith until now it covers the sky
| from the Orient to the Occident
| and irresistably impresscs every oh
; servant beholder with the fact that
) the exercise of the elective franchise
| by the women of America hasceased
to be subject of doubt and specu
lation and has become one of time
!. only.
0 Miss Anthony said a great many
: things that set great men to think
: ing. And among these was hel
3 suggestion that the American people
6 having always permitted theignoran1
e and drunken foreigner to vote, and
: having recently conferred the fran
Q chise upon one million of negroes
1 who have only emerged from the
. darkness and heathenism of slavery
i it would be neither safe nor consist,
r entto deny the same high privilege te
the native born, refined and educa
! ted wifes, mothers and daughter.
! of America, for surely an American
, lady is at least the equal of botl
the foreign rough and the ignorant
negro.
On Friday night Miss Anthony
S lectured again, to very crowded
house, demonstrating by very terst
: and rigidly logical argument thai
under the XIVth and XVIII
: Amendments to the Constitution O
: the United States, women have the
right to vote. And she avered tha,