The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-01-05
A nIsAGREEABLE DUTY.

To show our thousands of readers,
who are scattered all over the English
reading world, the base depths Of infa-
my to which some of our obscure con-
temporaries have sunk in their frantic
endeavor TO beslime the Woman Move
ment with their own abominable ideas.
We print the following, from the pen of
a drinking, chewing, smoking leper."
who views the works Of all good women
through his own leeherous Imagination.
The obscure publication which filings
this nastiness into the face of public de-
cency is edited by broken-down Sc
cessionist, 4 rake and rOuc, who, like
all men of his illS, naturally think that
all women are as vile as himself, unless
controlled by men. The only reason
that we notice it is because we feel it TO
be our duty to tell our fellow-workers
where they may find Copperheads. We
do not allude to Copperheads who were
known as such during the recent war,
for many of them are advocates OF
Woman Suffrage; but we do allude to
just such snakes in the grass as Beriah
Brown, who has been all his life polit-
ical and private failure, dead weight
/ to his party and a scavenger of the low
est and most eXecrable type. We do not
wonder that his filthy sheet is in a
starving condition; we would wonder
that it exists at all, only there are dog
geries and dens of infamy enough i'm Sc
attic TO give il half rations The better
class of people in that growing and
beautiful town spum this leper and shun
him as they would viper, and yet he
essays to warn them against their
friends. Satan warned the Savior but
it was all the good it did him:
Under other circumstances we should
deem ii an offence against public de-
cency and private morality, to publish
the extracts from Mrs. WOOdhulPs
speech, defining the position of herself
and the party of which she is the rec
ognized leader, upon the question of the
social rights of women. Our iustifica-
| tion is, that the emissaries and cOnfed-
]
IN this community, planting the seed.
of which Mrs. Woodruff represents the
fruits; they have been received in some
of our most respectable families, ha.
rangued reputable audiences from Chris
tian pulpits, and initiated some of Oul
most highly esteemed matrons and mai
dens into the first degree of their infa-
nous order, under the pretext of organ
izing for the protection of women
against manifest wrongs, and preparing
the minds of the nOvitiate to receive
! further revelations, which were prom.
ised, and consist of the writings Of thi.
same Mrs. WOdhull, Mrs. Stanton anC
Others of that ilk, to the same purpor
of the speech from which we quote. A
the East, all women of respectable so
cial standing, who were drawn into thi:
movement under misapprehension Of il,
/ purposes, have abandoned il to the eX
elusive control of the open advocates o
Free Love. Such will he the case her,
when the matter is understood, and tn,
sooner that time comes the better fol
public and private morality.
The fact is that ''women of respecta
bic social standing'' in the East, to tn,
number of hundreds of thousands, ar
stronger than ever in their noble wOrl
for woman's acknowledgements and NOR
than ever determined that Woodhul
and such Of her emissaries as Berial
Brown shall not he allowed to lea,
them.