The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-25
LETTER FROM MISS ANTHONY.
ROCHESTER,, July S, 1873.

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measures who set themselves for or
against the equal rights of women.
like your words relative TO Senator
Mitchell. The question with us is not
what social blunders, or crimes even. /
men in place and position were guilty /
of in their youth, but what are fo-dqy |
their principles and practices. Does
Mr.. Mitchell believe in the equal rights
of women, civil and political, and will
he use all his power, personal and polit-
ical, to secure TO women the protection
of the National Government against
any and every State custom or law that
discriminates against their enjoyment
of such equality of rights? This is the
one vital question to put to every man
in Washington. The Senator or Con-
gresham may be spotless in his whole
social record, but if he speaks and votes
on the floor of Congress against the Dos
tive legislation needed To compel the
several States to cease hindering and
obstructinng women citizens in the ex-
ercise of their right TO vote, he is not
the man for that place; while on the
other hand, a Senator or NJ. c. may
have been weak or wicked and still fall
short of the true standard Of social pur-
ity, yet if he he pledged to speak and
vote for wOman's freedom from the po-
sition of political subjugation to men,
{ Ia. fg tha m in. lnf II.
Precisely as in the olden days of slavery.
/ Though man might not hold a single
slave, if he spoke and voted for the con-
| tinuance of the system, he was not the
man for the abolitiOnists; while on the
other hand, though he owned slaves,
and his father before him, if he hated
the system of slavery and would work
and vote TO abolish it, he was the man
they wanted in place and power.
The establishment by Congressional
law Of an entire equality of rights, civil
and political, is the first and most i'm
perative need Of this nation; and while
we rejoice in personal purity, and desire
its universal reign, we philOsophically
see that it is utterly impossible to real
ize our desire so long as man is polite
ally the sovereign and woman polite
ally the slave. 80 long as woman mus
accept such place and position and pay
rs man pleascs TO give her-dependen
OH mans justice and generosity TO
every comfort and every pleasure of lif
. there is no possibility of elevatin:
mans social code. When women make
! shape and control their own circum
stances politically, they will be finan
cially equal and independent, and thel
will they bc able to dictate their idea
social cOdc TO the men they assOciat
with in the home or society, as mel
now dictate that of the women the,
take TO their hearts and their homes.
So long rs the principle of mans righ
of ownership and control of woman ex
, lists, individual men will as surely her
and there abuse their power, as did tn
shareholders so long rs the principle @
the right of one man to hold propert.
D.. in another existed. II is the total ado
: Iitioa of the law and the custom of man
right over women that we must a
.. work for with might and main. Give
: political cqUdlity, and the civil an
social will speedily adjust themselves.
| began my letter to tell you that
am a criminal ordered such by Unit
ed States Supreme Court Judge-an
;, sentenced by the same power TO fin
n Of SlOO and costs-the bill of which
have seen, amounting in all to Sl0i 81
= both of which penalties repudiate wit
= scorn, as | do the arrest and prosecutio
-. by United States officials, the Judge
=, verdict and denial of my citizens rigl
to the ballot aud a jury. But you st
one crime always paves the way TO al
u. other-so to perpetrate the one again
20 my citizenship that other against m
~. right of jury trial had to be resorted +
1, Precisely so with virtues-One good al
II heroic deed always opens the way f
Il others. Neither will the Inspectors re
70 ognize the right of the Government
m punish citizens for not hindering or o.
n structing other citizens from voting.
DO you note the movement in th
city of the women taX-payers-tO pr
test against and finally resist the pa.
ment of taxes? That is the true pos
tion. IL all the real estate women pro
erty holders would combine in absOlu
g refusal to pay another dollar tax uni
- their right to vote was protected, Il
T. men opponents would quickly come
III terms, for they would neither put the
d. hands into their own pockets and p'
C ems farms and houses and lots to
sold at auction to meet the payment.
ia The order now is, 'Vote, or try TO,
OF every election, and send every taX-c'
As lector away empty-handed."
g, Indignation meetings ought 10
er held all over the country. / enclose (
nd report of the New York city meeti
ng the night of July 2d, from the Herd
he We shall hold one here in Rochest
" the last of this month or the first
~ next. How l wish you were here
re help us blow the bugle blast that shot
a ring this country through
=" Sincerely yours,
e" SUSAN Il. ANTHONY
NJ
-, The Women Aroused.
NJ INDIGNANT PROTEST AG AtNsr THE coD,vt,-rf
or SUSAN H. ANTHoNY-THE FLAG @TNl