The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-07-16
GRACE GREENWOOD DORITICIsEs SUSAN
u, ANTH0NY's CASE.

1t isn't necessary to endorse the doc
trines of Grace Greenwood in order to
enjoy her letters; and the narrow
minded man who fails to read them
because he doesn't believe in woman
suffrage or the possibility of discover
ing the North pole, is merely punish
ing himself In some late Washing
ton Notes" she discusses the case of
Miss Anthony with great good humor
and yet with much force. "The ark"
she says, "of the holy political cove
nant resting here-the sacred mules
that draw it being stabbed in the capi-
tol for halfa year at a time-the wo-
man who laid unsanctified hands upon
it, is naturally regarded with peculiar
horror" "Icertainly," she says again,
edo not want to get into your political
preserves by any quibble or dodge.
want my right there freely granted
and guaranteed, and will be politely
treated when | come, or l won't stay.
The promised land of justice and equal
ity is not to be reached by a short cut.
| fear we have large part of the forty
years of struggle and zigzaging before
US yet. | am pretty sure that our
Moses has not appeared. I think he
will be woman. She notes the fact
that Judge Hunt peremptorily ordered
the jury to bring the defendent in gull
ty, and she says:
Now, could not twelve honest, intel
ligent jurymen be trusted to defend
their birthright against one woman
Why such zeal, such more than Roman
sternness? Again in the train of the
inspectors Of elections, why were both
judge and jurymen so merciful No
verdict of guilty was ordered, and the
council of twelve who had seen fit to
punish Miss Anthony by fine of 800
and costs, merely mulcted in the mod
est sum of twenty-five dollars each de-
fenceless defendant SHINING against
light. Was it that they considered in
their manly clemency the fact that
women have superior facilities for
earning money; or, did they give heed
to the old, cid excuse, "The woman
tempted me, and did register?" 1t
surely is strange that such severe pen.
alties should be visited on the woman,
for first and only indiscretion in the
suffrage line, when Il man may rise up
on election morning and go forth, vot-
ing and to vote. If he be of an excit-
able and mercurial nature, one of the
sert Of citizens which sweet Ireland
empties on US by the county, he may
sportively fit aoout among the polls,
from ward to ward of the metropolis,
and no man say him nay, he may even
travel hilariously from city to city
with free passes and free drinks-who
treats Miss Anthony ?-making festive
calls, and dropping ballots for cards.
and no disturbance comes Of it-he is
neither fined nor confined. So, it would
seem "a little voting is "a dangerous
thing" Say what you will, the whole
question of woman's status in the state
and the church, in society and in the
family, is full of absurd contradic-
tions and monstrous anomalies. We
are SO responsible, yet irrespon.
sible-we are idols, we are idiots
we are everything, we are moth.
ing. We are the caryatides, bear
ing up the the entablature of the
temple Of liberty we are never allowed
to enter. We may plot againsta gov
ernment and hang for it; but if we
help to found and sustain a govern
ment by patriotic effort and devotion,
by toll and hardship, by courage, 10y
atty and faith; by the sacrifice of those
nearest and dearest to us, and then
venture to clutch at the crumbs that
fall frem the table where cur Masters
Jonathan, Patrick, Hans and Sambo
sit at the feast, you arrest us, imprison
us, try us, and then add insult to insult
by calling us old, ugly and fanatical,
And she defends Miss Anthony per-
sonally:
If anything can make mo think
meanly of my young brothers Of the
press, it is the way they pelt and pes
ter Susan b. Anthony. For shame,
boys Never a one of yeu will make
The man she is. Even some of cur
Washington editors turn aside from
the fair game Providence, in its in
serutable wisdom, has provided fol
them in the Board of Public Works,
to vent their virtuous indignation and
manly scorn of the woman they are
determined shall stand in perpetual
pillory in the market place of this
great, free Republic.
For herself, and indeed for good
many others, she is hopeful;
/ hope l am not given to boasting
but venture to say that, given the
franchise-given a million or two dol
| lnrs-trnnns of nolitical friends. of the