The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-04
sTORM-oLoUps TH1CKEE.

PORTLAND, June 26th, 1873.
Mrs. Duniwoy:-I am disappointed in
you! Why don't you ask Senator
Mitchell to resign? We, as Woman
Suffragists and your constituents, anx-
iously look to you as our leader, yet
when you come out in the NEW NORTH
WEST and exhort a man like Mitchell to
atone for the past by "becoming the
special champion OF the rights of all
women" ], for one, am ashamed of
you! knew all the time that you were
fooled in Mitchell. He is not and never
has been woman's friend. The woman
he lives with here is violent opponent
Of yours, and he is q sleek-mannered,
Janus-faced enemy to WomRn's Enfran-
chisement. II get the ballot / want
my champion to be free from all re-
proach; one that women can look up to
as a model Of purity and good behavior.
II you could hear the sneering remarks
men make about you for saying that
Mitchell has work to do in behalf Of
woman, you'd retrsct what you have
said about him If you have one single
grain Of common sense.
INDIGSATION.
Well! We are glad our friend has re-
lieved her mind! Perhaps she will now
grow calm enough to coolly review the
above splenetie effusion, and see fishes
not scared more than hurt.
Hear, then: We do not ask Mitchell
to resign, because, in the first place, he
wouldn't; and secondly, we have no
hope of getting successor who will
vote for the Enfranchisement of Wom-
an. Besides, as another correspondent,
TO whose sensible letter-published last
week-we earnestly commend your at
tention, very aptly says, we have moth
ing whatever to do with Mitchell the
man. He has been elected to perform a
certain work, and when he proves false
to that trust it will be time enough for
us to demand his resignation.
If "you knew all the time that we
were fooled in Mitchelr' you were cul-
pably careless in that you failed to say
so before he was elected. We cannot
look upon your silence, then, as any
thing but connivance in ''fooling" MS.
The charge in relation to Mrs. Mitchell
does not concern us as, she is not Sena-
ator. The declaration that Mr.. Mitchell
is an enemy to Woman Suffrage waits
to be substantiated.
Dear madam, we well remember your
enthusiasm over the election of Gen.
Grant. Would you not be as willing
that he should champion" the ballot
for you, as you would be, did no dark
clouds of early errors hang over his ma
turer years ? Be consistent and careful,
dear. The man who is without sin Is
hard to find in these degenerate days oi
one-sexed politics. If men were as good
as they ought to be; or, rather, wer,
it possible that they could be pure anC
good, as a class, under our one-sexed
unnatural political system, we SHOULD
! never want the ballot. But the constan
proofs that come to us of mans corrup
tion officially, socially and financially
are an ever present admonition to leave
no stone unturned and no knot untried
till We shall find the key to woman
rightful heritage.
Your "model man. will hardly b
: found before women vote.
The "sneering remarks" that me-
make about us concern us very little
If they cannot find something better {
do we pity them. Common sense" is
matter of taste and opinion. In con
clusion we are glad to have heard fror
you; and now, if you will subscribe fo
the NEW NORTHWEST, price So OK
we'll forgive you for getting angry.