The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
From the Golden Age ]
AN OLD LETTER.

Inc IOllowlng letter originally ap-
peared in the Golden Age of Dec. 2d.
As it will probably interest our readers
who do not get Theodore Tilton's wide
awake newspaper, we publish it, al
though it is out of date.
To the Editor of The Golden Aqe: Far
away on the Pacific slope, beyond the
hutter OF the stars and stripes, in Vic
toria's Dominion, Susan b. Anthony
ana my comparatively unknown self,
have strayed in our itinerant occupation.
For the last four evenings the unanswer-
able logic of our feminine Patrick Henry
has held the British Colonists as by
spell, and to-day we leave them, thor
oughly convinced of the power of Uni
versal Suffrage, as the only safeguard of
universal liberty.
Miss Anthony reached Portland, Ore
gon, on the first day of September, hav-
ing parted from Mrs. Stanton, her hith-
erto inseparable companion, in Califor-
mia, some days previously. Since her
arrival in Oregon up to the present
time, she has been constantly occupied,
having spoken upon forty different oc-
casions, travelled sixteen hundred miles,
and converted thousands of people to
the principle of Woman Suffrage.
We have together Journeyed to the
head of navigation on the broad
Columbia; gaZed with bated breath upon
the mighty mountains of the Cascades;
stood upon the towering bluffs of black
and gray basalt that loom bleak and
desolate above the dashing Oregon;
crossed weary miles of rocky desert in
great numbering coaches; glided over
magnificent waters in elegant modern
steamers; dashed through fertile val
leys, and over dark deep gorges, behind
the iron horse; have Travelled for sue
cessive days through forests grand and
old, some of them green and glorious, as
they were for ages ere the white mans
foot had pressed the soil, others all bare
and black and CHASTITY, holding their
skeleton arms as if in mute appeal,
their headless trunks all SCARED and
shrunken, yet mighty in their wieri
magnificence; have watched the bril-
liant day god as he sunk beneath the
rolling pillows of the broad Pacific; and
again have greeted him as up he rose,
refreshed and dazzling, TO bathe the
snow-capped SUBMITS of old Hood,
Rainier, and Adams in his limpid glo-
ries, and illume the gladdened earth
with his most welcome presence, and in
these mighty scenes have gathered
strength and inspiration.
At Portland Miss Anthony lectured
three evenings, always to crowded and
appreciative audiences, carrying cOnvic-
tiOn to the minds of hundreds who
flocked eagerly to hear and understand
this new gospel of humanity and Justice
From Portland we proceeded to Salem,
the capital of Oregon, where success in
! gratifying form crowned our repeated
efforts. From Salem we went to Oregon
| City, Milwaukee, and then back tC
Portland, thence up the Columbia to
Dalles, Umatilla, Wallula, and Walla
Walla; back again, up the Willamette
/ to Albany; from thence to Corvallis,
Monmouth, Dayton, Lafayette, Nc
| Minnville, Forest Grove, and towns OF
lesser note; then back again to Salem to
the annual State Fair, where by special
/ invitation of the Agricultural Board,
Miss Anthony addressed three thousand
| people in the open air; then off by
steamer and stage coach to Olympia, the
capital of Washington Territory, where
| by invitation we addressed the Terrific
rial Legislature in joint session assem-
bled, and where, one of us at least, ae-
quilted herself right royalty; then down
| the majestic waters of the world-famed
Puget Sound to rouse the stolid sons OF
old Britannia, and to-day we are of
again for Madison, Townsend, Ludlow,
Gamble, SteilaeOom, and Seattle, and
are to be back again to Olympia by the
sth proximo, when n Territorial Woman
! Suffrage Convention will be held oyeI
against the walls of the capital where
the Legislature sits in state and mans
rights doctrine trembles on its tottering
| throne.
BY virtue of the Territorial law and
under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Federal COnstitu.
ton, the women of Washington are al
ready voters, and the object of the
Convention is to insure harmony and
concert of action among them at the
next June election.
Everywhere / reap rich harvests oi
subscribers for the NEW NORTHWEST
and send you to-day new subscribers fol
the Golden Age. / hope ere long to send
you large list.
Miss Anthony will proceed from
/ Olympia to Portland, where a farewell
reception will be given her in Orc Fine
Hall, after which she will depart over
land for California and her eastern home.
Mrs. 4. J. DUNIwAY,
Editor and Proprietor
of NEW NORTHWEST,
Portland, Oregon.
VICTORIA, B. c., Oct. q, 1871.