The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-06-21

gal and moral and religious bond oi
marriage, any breath of remotest ac-
quiescence in the odious doctrine you
grace and honor far too much by the
mild name of ''free love.n No, we ask
the ballot that marriage may nave
hOlier and stronger guarantees, that vice
may be made "a felony and be lawfully
expelled from respectable society tha5
your wives may be the honered ana
equal partners OF the home empire, anu
pure love be trained and armed Win
power, that it may no longer be the
prey of villain or tyrant. We ask tile
ballot because il is the symbol OF nat
ural right, the right of self-goyernmeht,
and the potential arm of conventional
right, the delegated government, "Ilicl,
is just self-government by deputy anu
cannot exclude one subject OF the great
first empire of self-rule.
We ask for suffrage in the name OF
justice and the conceded fundanental
law of the State, in pc name oil hohoT
and truth, both violated by practical
contempt of the fundamental law. q,
we ask il for our own protection and
unfolding. and the publication OF the
polls, left to drift toward barbarism ana
corruption by lack of the complement
tary force that makes man two-foid
being, male and female, in the image oil
God. We ask il that the nation may
be truly a representative nation Win
every important element OF human So
ciety incorporated in the organic law
without which it is no republic, ana on
the republic hangs the hope of the CIV
ilization of the world. We ask II IN the
assurance that in this Legislature OF the
grand old Empire State are many men
as wise, as noble and as upright as are
the men of the Legislature of any OF the
States In our grand unity Of many In
one. And so believing and so trusting
TO YOUR own great instincts of justice and
eoualitv. and with all due reference we,
your natural peers but now petitioners,
will ever pray.
REPORT II FAVOR OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE
The following brief, yet pertinent and
important report, signed by two very
obIe and influential members of the as
sembly, Hon. Robert III. Strahan OF
Newbury, Orange county, and Hon. [.
z. .Vedder of Cattaraugusc county, presents
very forcibly the question OfState policy,
which the people will have to face soon
after the smoke of this Presidential cam
paign has cleared away:
ferhe undersigned members OF the Ju-
dietary committee, to whom was refer
red the memorial of certain tax paying
citizens of the State of New York, pray
ing that the Constitution of this State
should be so amended as to extend the
elective franchise to all citizens, without
regard to sex, respectfully report, that
having carefully considered the ques-
ton, and the Judiciary committee hav-
ing heard an able argument by the
memOralists i'm favor of this Legislature
taking some action i'm behalf of female
suffrage, we have come to the following
conclusions: First, That taxation with
out representation is tyranny, whether
applied to one sex or the other. Sec
ond, That it having become the fixed
policy of this State to allow female citi-
zens to hold taxable property, personal
and real, in their own right and name,
whether married or single, it seems un-
Just to deny them the right to take part
in the election of all who make and exc
cute the laws of the State. Third, The
ballot being recognized as a national
right in a free government like ours, we
therefore recommend an amendment OF
section of article of the Constitution
of this State so as to allow all taN-pay-
ing female citizens the right to vote.
(Signed,) ROBERT II. STRAHAN,
G. 7. VEDDER.