New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-21
MRS H. B. STANTON. MISS SUSAN b. IN
THONY MRS. la IRA ID. F4IR.
JUSTICE TO THEM FROM THE JOURNALS WHICH
"ALwAYs TREAT THEM FAIRLY.N

JUSTICE TO THEM FROM THE JOURNALS WHICH
ALWAYS TREAT THEM FAIRLY"
We observe that our friend and admirer, Mrs
Henry b. Stanton, has been expressing to San
Francisco audience her disapprova of the Republi-
can party and her high hopes from the Democracy.
Among other like things she said: "The Democratic
party has been the party that has always given us
the Woman Suffragsts encouragement. The Dem
ocratic press has always spoken fairly of us. while
The TRIBUNE has done nothing but rdcule." This
being the case we take pleasure in commencing to
the fair orator an estimate of some of her recent
work from the leading representative of the DEM
ocratic press, The New-Y WorId. Some snch
things had been moved to say. more mildly, our
selves. but remembering the good ladys complaint
that THE TRIBUNE did not treat her fairly. we kept
silence. Now that she has found journals that do,
we commend to her studious attention the we'll
weighed utterances of the chief of them;
From The ". y World. Juiy IS. 1871.
The cause of woman suffrage must have great merits
if II ever For will succeed in spite OF its al
yocates II is the fashion to say tGht tGe most i0TThq
they not specimens but mOnstl0Sles OF ther sex
and Miss Anthony have been derneanng them,
selves in San Francisco IN manner which, II
cency. as it is rather characteristics of the vilest
class Of women to whom we DO not for moment com
quisite uneason. They have taken pains publicly 70
made explicit defense Of her from the platform. aud
both Miss Anthony and Mrs stanton have paid visit to
the wOmdn's cell As 1t IL not known that Mrs. Fair
acquaintance of either before the performance which
has forced some acquaintance with her upon all " u, it
is fair to infer that they visited her for the sake f show
ing their admiration OF her act ana their sympathy with
We believe that both Miss Anthony and Mrs Stanton
have recently protested against any bodys mixing MP
the cause of wOman's suffrage with free-lOye or any
other social theory Here they gone and inextr
cably confounded the two themselves They in Cali
Ornia the protested missionaries OF wOmans suffrage
They are bound to do nothing publicly TO the detri-
Iuput that III they have
they will certainly do nothing which they
defends and both Of them publicly visit in the way Of
congratuaton or coincidence as they choose the woman
slider consorng with this notorious haro and convicted
murderess Injurious to Their cause Ihat s they them
selves saddle womans suffrage with ree-oye PMS muir
der. And they complain that other people saddle
woman's suffrage with freeloye minus murder.
IL is ncOnceiyabe upon what grounds they defend er
excuse the crime Of this woman They may say that
Crenden ruined her and refused her reparaOn In the
first place the woman had been repeatedly ruined"
fore Crttenden her. II her vocation to be
ruined and Crttenden dealt with her strictly IN The ne
dem no heinz married. could not MARI her If he Gould
and had 1t would have been triumph OF ireeIove A
he couldn't and didn't the woman killed him TO vind
the principle of reeOye, In spite of its failure
practice and it is this action which excites the admra
ton OF Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony.
But II Critteuden had seduced the woman, he
would not have done her any wrong according 10 these
advocates Of woman suffrage. Their whole fabric of
womaa's rights proceeds upon the assumption that
actually equal TO men, and that it is an out
they not equal IN all points before me law Sc
duction supposes n man stronger minded than the
he seduccs. Otherwise the WORD mas no mean
ing According Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony,
is by nature able to take care OF herself a.
man. In the heaven 10 which they invite us there will
be seduction, they have contrlVed 10 make II clear
that there will be marrying giving IN marriage.
But these women have put themselves IN even worse
position than be the defenders Of free love, That
phrase means freedom to love to leave. Crltendeu
loved and left Mrs. Fair denying to him the priv
ilege rowing. which she claimed ana exercised for
herself shot him The code OF ethics which her life and
her pistol combined TO expOund Is tha woman Is fee
leave a man of whom she tires, but that man Il
bound TO abide with woman OF whom he tires under
penalty death. And this Opsided license being what
l. admired and enyed by the strong-mnded woman Of
the present he the substance OF the things hoped
for the strong minded woman OF the future
The particular aTocty which reused the sensbltles
Mrs Pair the pitch OF murder was that Crittenden
deserted her charms for the claims OF his lawful wife
This was the point at which her fOrbearance ceased
De a virtue aud at which, by consequence, the ndlgna
ton OF her sympahZers rose to note OF admit
ration To most observers il seems that II tribute OF
human pity and respect were u be paid where in
this business should be to the ytuOus bameless and
sorrow stricken widow whose husband had been taken
from her, first by madness and then by murder, |
rather than 10 the shameless prostitute who had |
doublv deprived her OF him, and who would not even
then forbepr farant and unprovoked public insult to
the lady she had wrOnged To Mrs. Stanton and Miss
Anthony alter rsum. We have not heard OF their call
ing upon Mrs Crttenden. We do hear Of their calling
on Mrs Fair They have chosen to make their bed not
with the faithful and sorrOwful wife, but with the adm
money greedy blood greedy mistreS, and
murderess. Let them lie on IT, II the party OF woman
outrage be not also the party OF free owe. II lies In
neither of their mouths 10 disown the implication And
IN bebooye the friends Of woman suffrage, who not
also friends OF free love- 10 clear their skirts Of Miss
Anthony and Mrs Stanton unless they would have them
chung to By women of the sort Of Mrs. Fair.