The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-06-28
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
SPRINGFIELp. ILL.,, June s, Il

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DEAR NEW NORTHWEST
Travelling as am, from one point to
another, TO reach lecturing appoint
ments, find it impossible to find time
or opportunity to write you as often as
wish. believe 1 sent you full records
of the Boston Woman Suffrage Ami
versary, since which time have been
so constantly on the wing or on the ros-
trum as to have little time for necessary
rest.
Last night l held a very successful
meeting in the Hall of Representatives
in this city, and it was all the more in
teresting from the fact that the Republi-
can platform, just received before going
to the lecture, and which read from the
rostrum amid much enthusiasm, de-
clares emphatically for universal suf-
frage," and says "the demand of the
women for an extension of their rights
is entitled to respectful consideration"
For the first time in the history Of our
Nation a great political party has come
to the front with declaration of its adj
herence to q real Republican form of
government, and though we are COM
PEELED to admit that it does i'm a very
weak and rather vague manner assert
its support of woman's claim to the bal
lot, yet the phrase previous condition
Of servitude" includes all mothers, even
if doubt be raised as to their belonging
to any trace, creed, or color"
Since the Cincinnati blow out, which
resulted in the setting of the sage-hen of
Chappaqua on the dimly prospective
Presidential nest, the women engaged
in the suffrage movement have re-
doubled their energies, and bearing
down upon the Philadelphia delegation
in body, made them realize that wOm-
an as political power can be no longer
successfully ignored.
The evening previous to my leaving
New York, after returning from Boston
l was attracted by profuse display o.
posters, hand-bills and ''gutter snipes, y
announcing that "Real Reform Meet
ing'' would be held in Steinway Hal
that night in reputation of Grant anC
Greeley, and in favor of Revenue Re
form and Free Trade. William Cutler
Bryant, David A. Wells, and othe
prominent free traders were announce,
as speakers, and promptly at the ap
pointed hour a score of ladies and over
thousand gentlemen assembled in tn
Hall. William Cullen Bryant presided
taking his seat amid the enthusiastic
applause of large portion of the au
: dienee. The speeches were all scholar
ly, dignified, courteous, cutting, concis
= and conciliatory-these different an,
, incongruous elements blending contin
= ually in 4 humorous and exceedingl,
pointed manner.
1 listened until, like the preacher il
the Salem Temperance Alliance, l wa
in "divine fever" and wanted to max
a speech; so wrote upon the margin @
: a copy Of the NEW NORTHWEST q re
quest, addressed TO the President, {
give me five minutes for remarks. I
friend at my side carried the paper {
the edge of the platform and handed i
to a reporter, with the request that h
pass it to the Chair, which he agreed I
do; but we noticed that after givin
each of the half dozen reporters loo
at the journal he "tabled" it, and ther
it lay. My friend finally sought acces
to the rostrum and spoke to the secrC
tary, who said, Certainly; bring III
lady to the platform" / declined to Q
l until the Chair could be consulted, an
then the decision was that sit was to
: late, and he feared l could not hold til
crowd, but that if the application ha
been made earlier" etc, etc. So Il
my fever efiervesce in a letter to th
? EreniRg Post, in which 1 embodied
resolution which had been scribbled o
the fly leaf of my pocket book to thro,
as bomb, and which read as follows
Universal Suffrage and universal Ere
Trade are, and of right ought to be, on
and inseparable."
To see men of the brain and culture {
which the speakers on the platform
gave evidence gravely mounting a one
! legged hobby horse and fiounderin
about in quest of Presidential candi
date with only one idea, and that mere
ly financial one, was to me only on
OF the many amusing instances of poll
ties run mad, for which the one-sexe
political obligarchy are rapidly becon
ing infamous.
!, ATLANTA, June Q.
was all ready for the train to thi
= place from Springfield, thinking m
I. work was done for the present i'm th
Illinois Hall of Representatives, when
committee of gentlemen called upon m
and requested me to give some lecture
on Oregon; and their request bein
backed by a financial consideratio
which in the present depleted state
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