The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-15
INDIGNATION" RBoANTBTH.


Dear Mrs. DuRiUdy:-The bomb l
threw into your camp, when savagely
accusing you some time since of promul-
eating views that did not suit me, let
ter that was astonished to see in print
and glad it didn't explode, and which
caused my husband to say that he did
not know which most to admire, my
impudence in thus addressing you, or
your magnanimity in giving me space,
has at least done some good, for it has
secured for you life subscriber. In-
closed find three dollars, and send me
the NEW NORTHWEST as per accom-
panying address.
assure you that the only reason why
/ was so displeased with you was be-
cause 1 failed to catch your idea. OF
course you were right, but 1 was for
while so lost in contemplating the moral
turpltude of the social acts Of Senator
Mitchell, which every good. woman
must condemn, that lost sight Of the
fact that it is only through these public
NNhAhhCAo luhl We Cdll lnC COluA-
tions that foster such evils.
Your article on "John b. Cough and
]. H. Mitchelp opened the.eyes, Pll dare
to venture, of every honest man or wom-
an who read tito full understanding of
the motives which prompted you to do
as you did. Through the channel Of res
titutlon of which you speak, and
through that only, can Mr.. Mitchell re-
instate himself anddo good in the world.
He has the power. Let bim heed your
honest admonitions, and shall be will
ing to subscribe myself hereafter, not
Indignation" but PENITENCE.
PORTLAND, July u, 1873.
We thought our friend would come to
terms. These irrascible, outspoken per-
sons may always be relied upon for rea-
sonable opinions after they get cool.
Our many friends who have felt slighted
because we could not spare them space
to reply to her, as well as the one or two
other mistaken but honest workers,
who have given us such anxiety be-
cause of their unwise persistence in be-
ing heard to the possible detriment of
their own prospective enfranchisement,
will now, we trust, forgive us US for an
omission which we had no power to
avoid. The letters that have reached us
within the last month upon this topic
alone, would have filled every issue of
the New NORTHWEST to the exclusion
of everything else.
This controversy has caused every
man Of doubtful reputation, who dared
to do it, to stop his wife's paper It has
caused a general howl among the low
and lewd, and prompted a very few over
righteous men and women to accuse US
falsely, but it has not injured eternal
principles. 1t has shown that we have
dared, in at least one instance, TO do our
conscientious duty regardless of newspa-
per clamor and Pharisaical misrepresen-
tation. 1t has also cost us q number OF
subscribers, which our struggling f.
nances could poorly afford to spare, but
the majority of these will come back
and many new names will be added as
months roll on.
One such letter as the above repays us
for hundred reverses. AS "there is
more joy in heaven over one sinner that
repenteth, than over ninety and nine
that went not astray," so there is more
joy in our sanctum over the return of
honest, sober sense in the brain of one
woman who was mistaken, than over
the hundreds of others who needed not
the knowledge. Our aim is not in
diUiduGls but principles; is not personal
persecution, but publication, through
equal rights for men and women, Of the
one-sexed, man-made conditions that
breed social corruption. This work can
not be done with gloves on, neither can
it be accomplished by mock pity and
vehement protestations of virtue, but
by honest, earnest, fearless work with
such law-making material as can be in
duced, by honest means, to serve our
purpose.
Read an article in another column
from the Cornelius Progressionist.
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