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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
General Butler on the Constitution
Amendments.

Well, now, for the question of Woman /
Suffrage. | was called to examine into /
this question, and had no doubt when /
L did examine il. Let me state the |
question to you and you will have no
doubt about il. In the first place, until
'he Fourteenth Amendment was passed,
tnere never was definition of what was
an American citizen. Nobody knew
what American citizen" was, what a
citizen of the United States was, for the
citizens of the United States were made
so because they were citizens OF the
state, except only the naturaliZed eitl-
zens. Well, | looked over the books,
and found that there We're only two
things that person must be in order TO
be citizen of the United States, two
things i'll order to do, and one thing to
have done by them. Everything else
can be done by person, whether a citi-
zen or not, but those three things belong
to nobody but a citizen. Nobody but a
citizen can register a ship. Nobody but
citizen can pre-empt land under the
old presumption law. Nobody but cltl-
zen can havea passport. Well, / looked,
then, and | found that women had al
ways registered ships, always pre-empted
lands, and always had passports; and L
came to the conclusion that women were
citizens of the United States because the
law expressed that nobody could do
that that We're not citizens.
Very well, then. Then comes the
Fourteenth Amendment to the COnsti-
/ ton, which settled the question, which
is that all persons in the American
Jurisdiction, born on American soil and
/ duly naturaliZed, shall he American
citizens. That's the Constitution.
] fHhnfn | into Ia urf
and | found the Supreme Court of the
| United States had said that the elective
| franchise was one of the privileges and
immunitles of American citizens. That
Is, the right OF voting. | then found
the l4th Article of Amendment said
that "nO State shall have power to
abridge or take away anv one of the
privileges or immunities of an Ameri-
can citizen" Then ! got into this line
of reasoning: Women are American cit
lzens. Voting IS one of the privileges
and immunities of American citizens.
No state can take away or abridpe that
privilege or immunity. What i the
consequence? What followed? What
necessarily, logically, resulted? Why.
il IS that you cannot take away bv State
laws the rights of the women to vote
Applause. Well, having come to that
conclusion, do you suppose that for al
the governments this side of Texas
would alter my mind? Having con
WINGED my own mind on that question
won't / be man enough to stand up il
my tracks and state everywhere jus
the conclusion | have come to? An,
have come to that conclusion, and
stated it in report to Congress, and
therefore, / say, "women have the righ
to suffrage whenever they choose to de
mand it," lCheers and waving o
handkerchiefs among the ladies. That.
so. | don't make any promises abOu
this just before election, because l hav,
put forward this very argument more a
length in a report in my place as ;
member of the Judiciary Committee o
Congress; and we had with us almost
half Of the Republican votes on thai
question.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
AN ERRATIC SHAM.

The OrCJOnidn thinks that we, with
unnecessary severity, characterize"
joaquin Miller" as an "erratic sham.n
Has the Orcgonidn forgotten that it, as
well rs the other dailies of this city, in
dorsed all that we said of joaquin"
while the Atlantic ocean lay between
tween them and himself? And will
that journal, now that this new
literary donkey is braying right in our
very faces, grow frightened and ap-
plaud?
We have never said that joaquin"
Miller was not a poet, but we do say,
with the Bulletin, that he is not man /;
and if our friend of the OrcgORidp has
any fear that we have over-stated the
case, let him read Mrs. Miller's letter as
it appears in his paper, and satisfy him
self that we have not been "unneces-
sarily severe"
We have received a letter from our
friend, Mrs Miller, in which she expresses
regret that we published the fact that
her renegade consort had wanted her to
copy and sign a certain denial and,
while we are sorry that she regrets it,
we are not sorry that the public has
learned the truth The time has gone
/ by when a woman of brains may sub
nit, like whipped spaniel, to neglect
abuse and Misrepresentation from hel
legal master because the world ap-
plauds his doggerel. Such a genius as
Mrs. Miller possesses will naturally as
sert itself, and we are rejoiced to know
that she is proving herself true wom-
an by standing firmly by her deserted
babes while struggling to expand hel
pinions in the literary world.
We'd pity the man who couldn't
make a literary donkey Of himself after
having sacrificed his hearthstone i'm tn,
desperate attempt.
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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
BBRIAH ON THE WAR PATH.

The exploded hpmbuG for whose sake
we have sharpened our pencil just now
is invited to come forward. There! take
vour position-soy Hold your head up,
sir. and hook us in the eye-tttsg Now,
sir, have you any sense of personal hon
or? Do you expect the world to coin
eide with you when you assert, as you
did in the little Dispatch Of November
9Th, (which is rapidly dispatching you
to ObliviOn) that the relation of hus-
band and wife signifies nothing more
than a partnership of convenience, and
you are old and not particularly attract
i've as an aflinity?" What you mean
by this last sentence is not particularly
clear, unless indeed you do imagine that
somebody may make matrimonial over
lures to you, which we assure you isn't
at all likely.)
Then, when you try to hide your own
shortcomings by accusing "that other
editor of being as much a "mass of pu-
trescence" as, by your own account, we
must believe yourself to be, isn't your
accusation just little cowardly
There would be much good sense i'm
your remarks upon the abuse of the di-
gestive organs were it not that you for
get that the man who adds drinking,
chewing and smoking'' to the other sins
against temperance, of which most men
are guilty, becomes by so doing just
three fold more "leper'' than the man
who abstains from these last, while yOu
confess that you indulge the whole OF
them.
We are sorry to see you affect "Dean
Swift's Monk" in the use of the couplet
you quote, which, after all, does seem, in
your case and by your own confession, to
to be very appropriate one.
We were not aware that the woman
with whom you live was not your wife.
We gave you the benefit of a doubt un-
til your fiat denial came, but we honest
1 ly think, i'm consideration otthe present
state of your affairs, that il would be
well for you to follow the example of the
honest "negro named DiXonr-whose
case, as you gave it, we present to our
readers i'm another cOlumn-and "apply
to the County Auditor for license to
marry her." that you may live hereaf-
ter ''like Christian man." Oh, Beriah!
we're afraid you'll never get n legal
wife! \ man whose ideas of the "holy
estate of matrimony" are so utterly at
variance with his example stands a
poorer show than the "negro named
Dixon" 1t is pity you are such a con-
summate old fogy. There is no more
use in us hammering away at your one.
sided pate to try to infuse a little com.
mon sense in it than there is in dealing
) out logic to a lager keg. Your head is 81
full of your pet hobby, which you styl,
f "coarse, sensual, agrarian," that you ar,
unable to comprehend anything else
You remind us very much of the MAJ
r who always looked through colore,
= spectacles.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
PLAGIARISM.

In her eagerness to serve the cause of
the ''dOwn-trodden,n the fair editresS of
the NEW NORTHWEST has published a
poem written by Owen Meredith under
the name of "JuliaWard Howe. Chris
tioH (I'oH co., Messenger.
What a Christian spirit our Rev. Bro.
evinces! Just how it would particularly
serve our "cause" to purloin one Of Owen
Merediths poems and give the credit
to Julia Ward Howe we cannot see, and
we think no one can unless indeed il be
our very astute Christian Brother of the
Messenger. The poem may or NAV not
he Julia Ward Howe's, but, if it is not,
the literary world has been most sue
cessfully humbugged. To the charge of
plagiarism which our charitable Chris
tian Brother so generously makes, we
only say that the poem was set up ex-
actly as it was clipped from the newspa-
pers, after being published in the same
identical style for number Of years. II
that be plagiarism, then make the most
of it, but we are afraid our Rev. Bro.
will come i'm for fair share of the sin
himself. We respectfully suggest that
Owen Meredith is not the only poet i'm
the world, ~ the Messenger editor seems
to think. Women, if they do belong to
the "down-troddenr class, sometimes
write poetry, although some aspiring,
selfish specimen of masculinity general
ly stands ready and waiting to seize
upon it and publish it to the world as
his own.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
BROTHER IKE" IN OBSTACLES.

Our mans rights contemporary Of the
Portland Herald recently became very
much exercised over the alleged op-
preston of the Federal Government over
the property holders, men of the high
est respectability, of cultivated minds
and Christian worshippers," whom he
forgets to tell us became politically pow
erless through their recent rebellion.
But this contemporary, i'm working up
his case, unwittingly makes an argu-
ment for the enfranchisement of tax
paying women, which, if ,ce had made.
would have frightened him into another
piOUs demonstration about the so,cfify
of existing institutions and the noccsSify
of ofadhering to the present order Of things.
Hear him. CThe Italics are our ownJ:
When the taX-gatherer has wrung the
last dollar from industry, and there re-
mains deficit, as is frequently the ease.
the homestead is then seized and sold To
satisfy the demands of this combination
Of thieves, who mock human govern
ment by plundering under the forms of
law.
Now we ask, in view Of such a state of
things, is it any wonder if such a people.
so oppressed, should combine for pur-
poses Of self-protection, for the purpose
Of getting rid of their OppTessOrs? Would
not you do it? Did not our Revolution
ary Fathers do it? And when these
wrOnged people complain to the Federal
Government, which has organized lust
this state of things, instead of their
complaints being listened to and redress
attempted, they are abused, illuminated
and slandered. And so stands the case.
with the actual and unvarnished facts
told. Is there no magnanimity left
among us? Are we wholly insensible
TO wrong and injustice when practiced
upon the people of the South. IRE
thcy not bone Of OUF bone and flesh Of Oliy
flesh! When we think God is just, we
tremble for our country in view Of such
injustice. God viii punish the Oppress-
or rs sure as his justice is immutable.
No wonder Chicago is i'm ashes; no won
der that fire is devastating the North
Western States; no wonder that thous-
ands are consumed by the merciless
flames. Ii looks as though Gods JUS
tice was blasting those who uphold and
such Infamous oppression
and wrong. And He will punish the op-
pressOr and avenge the oppressed; for
He says so i'm His written word.
Don't you see, dear lady reader, that
all you have to do to make this argu-
ment exactly suit your ease is to change
the italicised word people to "women"
and the italicised word So,,th TO "Coun-
try y?p
If it were possible to get broad, phi
anthropic idea into the head of this
mans rights champion concerning
women, we'd have some hope for him d;
Dut alasl like his obtuse predecessor, Be
.iah, whom we're trying to advertise in
% little notoriety in this issue, we fear
hat "he is given over to hardness of
heart and reprobacy of mind to believe
lie that he may be''-our Bible is lost
and we forget the remainder Of the quo
tation.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
We ARE DIsOONsOLATB!

The woman who edits the New
NORTHWEST seems offended because we
do not call her lady. We assure her
that we should do so with the greatest
pleasure FIVE could do it tconscientiously.
Herald
Now are We undone. Alas. alas. that
it should be so! This cruel blow we
might have received with impunity
from any other source, but from the
Herald editOr-it is too much! We are
disconsolate! We feel something like
the soldier did who was dying from the
effects of a wound caused by the kick of
IA donkey. When it became known to
him that the hour Of his departure was
near ut hand he burst into tears. His
comrades tried to cheer him, telling him
not to fear death, but to meet it bravelv
like man.
"I'm not afraid to die" replied the de-
spending hero; "that's not it; but after
passing through so many battles, where
death would have been honorable, to at
last he kicked to death by Government
muler'
Our readers will, we think, readily
see the point
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17

we shall be pleased to publish for YOU.
NJ. l.. p, Sheffield, England: Your
request is complied with. Glad vou
like the NEW NORTHWEST. The story
of Judith Reid' will be out in book
form during the coming year. Have
not yet submitted it to publisher, as
we preferred first to lay it before the
public, for whose appreciation on both
sides of the water We are humbly and
sincerely grateful. No charge-you are
welcome.
Sarah II, Louisiana: From almost
every State in the Union we get such
appeals as yours. How we wish that
the many women who never own a
dollar would come to this great North
western corner of Uncle Sans domains,
We should like to make farmers, gar
deners, hotel keepers, lawyers, doctors,
preachers, house-keepers, dairy women,
poultry raisers, shepherds, etc, of al
least sixty thousand able-bOdied wom-
en- who can find no paying work to dc
in the older States. Cooking, washing
and chamber work are here mostly per-
formed by Chinamen-thank Heaven
giving women who have brains an op-
portunity to engage i'm more lucrative
employment.
Mrs. +. \. c., Nehalem: Shall senC
the photograph just as soon as we car
get some more taken-prObably neXt
week. Yes. Agents may select pre-
miums or retain p per cent. as pay fol
their trouble. Shall be glad to hav,
you act as agent. Can get you any
kinds of flower seeds that you may
name. Hope we shall meet sometime
Many thanks for kind words.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
POESY RRDIDIVUs.

y lady from Curry county, who has
never seen Woman Suffrage paper,
has become converted through the ridic-
ulous cant of the Herald, and has sent
for file of the NEW NORTHWEST with
which to work among her neighbors
She has favored It's with a poem in an
swer TO some rhymes that recently ap-
Peared about our champion i'm the Her
"td, from which we make room for the
following:
our cause Is just and can't be lost.
But needs just now little FRosr,
For Autumn Frost will surely bring
Good, thrifty crops the coming Spring.
Besides, ON a cold and frosty morn.
They'll better hear our Champions horn.n
There is much more of this that is Just
as good, but, as we want to sayirafc the
Hcrdid, We'll give broken doses.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
CORRESPONDENCE.

This department of the New NORTH
WEST is to be general vehicle for ex-
change of ideas concerning any and all
matters that may he legitimately dis
cussed i'm our columns. Finding il practi-
cally impossible to answer each cores
pondent by private letter, we adopt this
mode of communication to save our
friends the disappointment that would
otherwise accrue from our inability to an
swer their queries. We cordially invite
everybody that has question to ask,
suggestion to make, or scolding to give
to contribute To the Correspondents
Column.
Mrs. +. T., Springfield: Your article
is given i'm another column. Thousands
of women all over the land are sighinp
just like yourself for opportunity to ex-
pand their pinions and try their innate
strength. Do not "submitr with too
much good grace to your fate" The
woman who has strength of mind suffi-
cient to make, shape and control her
own circumstances, should obey the
high law of reason, remembering that
her first duty is TO do justice to herself
and family. The large family of BOYS
of which you write will soon be old
enough to place at trades or school
Ihen try your pOUers, using i'm the
meantime such opportunities for culture
and information as you can command
Your time is coming. Work, and plan.
and wait.
;. +. s, Iowa: Pleased TO hear from
you. Just such words of hope and cheer
are coming up from every quarter. Your
poem was published. 1t was very fair.
Writers make great mistakes by con-
fining their thoughts to poetry. If YOU
will write for us such prose articles as i'm
your judgment would be suited to our
columns, we should like to hear from
you frequently.
NJ. A. B.: No. Poetry is altogether
overdone. Try your hand at a sensible
letter upon some sensible theme, and
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17

Mrs. Duniway, at theWOman Suffrage
Convention, stated the result of a talk
she had at Seattle with two distinguished
politicians, Mr. Garfielde and Col. Lar
rabee. Neither wanted an office, ac-
cOrding to their statement; and when
asked their opinion of the woman suf-
frage question, were utterly astounded
that the question was one that was COM
manding any serious consideration from
the American people. They could not
for the life of them tell which side they
were on; politician-like, they were on
the fence. The movement has not suf-
ficientIy demonstrated its strength for
these weathercOcks. Mrs. Duniway
wound up by saying that il would be
heartless i'm the extreme for the people
to waste their time and energies TO ele-
vate one Of these political weathercocks
to any high position of honor or trust,
when they were so much averse to ac-
eepting, and begged the people not to
thrust honors on those who had no taste
or appreciation for them, but rather let
them pass quietly into private life,
where they will have time to study up
the great question of suffrage.-7fdR-
script.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
WE LACK SPACE.

We devote so much space this week TO
the proceedings Of the Washington Ter
ritory Woman Suffrage Convention that
much editorial matter is necessarily
crowded out. Suffice it to say of the
Convention, that it was a complete sue
cess; of the Washington people, that
they are whole-souled, wide awake and
strong for Woman Suffrage; and of our
trip, that it succeeded financially, pleas
antly and, for our cause, profitablv.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
SPECIAL NOTICES.
WILLIAM DAVIDSON,
IL q al H - tate aIer.
oFFICE-No. 64 Front Street,
PORTLAND. OREGON

DEAL ESTATE IN THIS CITY AND EAST
IL Portland, in the most desirable localities
consisting Of Ions, HALF BLOCKS and BLOCKS,
HOUSES and STORES.
Also, IMPROVED FARMS and VALUABLE IN
CULTIVATED LANDS, located in all parts Of the
state, for sale.
REAL ESTATE and other Property purchased
for CORES SpOndcntS, in THIS CITY and through
out the STATES and TERRITORIES, with great
care, and ON the most ADVANTAGEoUs TERMS
HOUSES AND STORES LEASED. Loans NEGo-
TiArED and CLAIMS or ALL Descriptions
PROMPTLY COLLECTED. and a CiFNF:RNI. FIS An
CIAL ana AGENCY business TRASSACrED.
AGENTS OF this OFFICE in all the CITIES and
TowNS in the STATE will receive descriptions of
FARM PROPERTY and forward the same to the
above address. no
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17
MISS ANTHONY's LAST LECTURE.

\ large and attentive audience con-
vened at an early hour in Orc Fino Hall
on Wednesday evening to listen to the
parting address of this estimable lady,
whose sojourn among us has won the
hearts of the people as no statesman has
ever been able to do since the gallant
General Baker took the public heart 10y
storm.
She began by giving a condensed ac-
count of her travels and lectures in this
country, eulOgising our people and Civ
ing very encouraging accounts of the
progress of the cause of Human Rights.
Evidently the speaker was very much
jaded from the effect of her recent her
culean labors as the Woman Suffrage
''wheel horse ;" but she did not swerve
one hairs breadth from the line of her
argument, and the audience appeared
unwilling to leave the hall at its close.
The reporters, of whom she saws she
always has a wholesome fear, must have
been out to the Council or some other
equally edifying place, for, with one fee
bic exception, we saw no man taking
notes. The said feeble exception was all
the time half asleep, and, consequently,
his report is disjointed effort of repor-
torial inconsistency, of which we should
be ashamed, were it not that mans
rights death is none Of our funeral, and
every man who makes fool of himself
only makes our victory the easier.
Miss Anthony has made thousands o
warm and trusty friends in this quarter
Of Uncle SANS vineyard, and we hope
and trust that she may again be induced
TO visit us to enjoy the full fruition o.
her labors of love in the great cause o.
humanity.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17

The Empress Eugene is paying a visit
to her mother ut Madrid, where that
lady lives in great splendOr, maintain
ing hospitality unusual in that coun-
try. She has the reputation of being a
good woman of business,
and has brought the property bequeathed
her by her husband, the Count dc Mont
Jo, into excellent Order-a condition in
which the properties of Spanish grandees
very seldom are.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-17

A well known officer in Aud Reekie
was celebrated for his cunning and wit.
His mother having died in Edinburg,
he hired hearse and carried her to the
family burial place in the highlands.
He returned, il is said, with the hearse
full of smuggled whisky, and being
teased about il by a friend, he said, ''WOur
man, there's nae harm done. | only
took AVA the body. and brought back
the sDeeritn ~