The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-07-05

ference between Protection and Free
Trade, State sovereignty and Federal
integrity? Has she no opinion toucl-
ing the Massachusetts fisheries, or con-
sequential damages, or local option In
the matterof Presidential appointments,
or other like momentous questions
Or, having such preferences and opln-
ions, Is she willing to subordinate them
to purely personal considerations and
to work against conscience in return
Tor political recognition suppose that
the only party to acknowledge the
political equality of woman should be
one based upon the repeal of all consti-
tutiOnal amendments, the reputation
OF the national debt, and the admission
OF the right of secession; does Miss An
thony mean TO say she would barter her
birthright of conscience for such mess
as this? Alasl according to strict rules
of construction her language will bear
no other Interpretation. But perhaps
and here appears to be the superfinity
to which we have alluded-perhaps Miss
~, like others of her sex, adopts the
positive form of statement-only to ap-
ply its negative antithesia, and merely
resolves that she will not vote with any
party that does not acknowledge the
political equality of woman, or, in other
words, that unless some one shall give
her ballot she will abstain from the
polls"
Human rights, freedom, protection OF
person and property, are the fundamen-
tai questions in government. Finance,
! trade, commerce, banks, tariffs, national
/ debts, dc, are of minor consideration
/ to the civil and political rights of the
/ individual. Moreover, what avails
woman's opinion on these questions, oI
her action in trying to right any wrongs
so long as she has no voice in legisla-
/ tiOn, no place ut the polls? lbelieve III
the one-term principle, the abolition ol
| the Electoral College, the rights of Mas
sachusetts fishermen, the Federal inteS-
rity as pledged i'm the fourteenth amend
ment, and the right of every man &c
| sell his wares in the best market tho
world affords; but above all | believe il
the right of every American citizen to ;
voice i'm the laws that govern her, t
vote the taxes she is compelled to pay
to choose the judge, the jury, the sheriff
who may deprive her of liberty and life
| believe in the right of every woman
to own and control herself her children
her children, wages, property, and he
right to enjoy all the advantages of ed
ucation in colleges she has helped I,
endOw and support. With me sucl
"purely personal considerations under
lie and Overtop all political question
that have ever yet occupied the mind
Of the American people.
The party that is wise enough to Sc
this and brave enough to do it, if no
right on all other questions, could sool
be made so by the votes of women
Such party could not in the nature O
things propose TO roll back the wheel
of civilization by repeating the legisla
ton of the last eight years.
Yes, Mr. World, put a woman's sui
frage plank-not a Philadelphia splin
term your platform, with Thurman
a Sumner, a Trumbull, or a Groesbeck
and the best women of the country vii
work with pen and tongue for the tri
umph of your party.
/ But if Baltimore shall lose to tin
Democracy this golden opportunity to de
clare for the full and equal protection O
women citizens in their right to vote
then will the woman suffragists of tn
country accept the fourteenth plank O
the Philadelphia platform, and with
united front, and zeal and earnestnes
such rs women only can carry into an
work, 60 into the Presidential convas
for the success of the Republican party
= 1t is principles, not men or partie
merely, that we demand.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
ROCHESTER,, y. Y, June 9.