The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-25


The national flags, with mourning IN
sigma, We're also displayed from the
gallery. On the platform, In neat sum
merry attire, were the following ladies,
all prominently identified with the
Woman Suffrage Movement: Mrs.
Clemence :. I.Ozier, President; Mrs
Lille Devereux Blake, Mrs. Hannah NJ.
shepard, Mrs. a. Il. Whitney,. Miss
McAdams, Mrs. Rachel, Mr.. and Mrs.
Underhill, of the Society OF Friends,
and Professor j. X. II. Wilcox.
The meeting was called to orier 10y
Mrs. Lozier, who then proeeeded IN
somewhat rapid but very earnest man
ner TO read from manuscript an Address,
in which she began by citing the stailu
taken in ante-revolutionary times oy
James Otis on the question oi unlVer-
salty of suffrage. She stated that the
women of Massachusetts in 1910 organ
lied and protested against taxation
without representation. 1t was really
the agitation which they inaugurated
which led To- the famous
BOSTON TEA PARTY.
Good government can only be estab-
lished and maintained with the consent
OF the governed. She then cited eN-
tracts from the writings and speeches OF
] -'Ae~'A7eAA anu OlllGi
port of her proposition. She claimed
that suffrage was the only means by
which the condition of woman could be
bettered. 1t was conceded that women
were not compensated fairly for labor,
and that as a consequence of this they
were also subjected to suffering, poverty
and shame. According to the returns
of the Midnight Mission for Fallen
Women, there are now about seven
thousand eight hundred and fifty ruined
women who walk the streets of New
York i'm pursuit of their occupation OF
shame, and this fact was directly trace
able To the grinding cruelty and injus-
tice of the stronger sex. The average of
their periods of continuance in this life
was four years, and from the records of
the Society it appeared that they We're
almost all driven to il by poor pay. Ii
was to remedy this state Of affairs that
. women needed the ballot, and they
would then assume a strength and inn
portance in the community which they
had never yet exercised, and which
would secure To them justice in all the
l relations of life.
Mrs. Blake then read the following
I resolutions:
WHEREAS, An honest diversity of
/ opinion exists as To the right of women
= to vote under the Constitution and the
p law, and whereas Susan Il. Anthony, q
well-knOwn citizen of this State, has
been arrested and tried for exercising
the right of suffrage, which right she
: was advised by her counsel that she
= possessed, and has been declared guilty
of a crime and fined by Judge who
usurped the functions OF the jury there
i fore,
V RcsolCcd, That if the law really
+ makes it 4 crime for woman to do
what is esteemed n duty for q man, and
. fOrbids u citizen to exercise the elective
e franchise simply on the ground of sex,
2 Miss Anthony broke a law that deserved
!. to be neutrality-suspicious. we de-
mand the repeal OF the law.
ReSOlred, That in 4 case where the
l. violation of law was purely technical
n and where the equities were plainly OIL
= the side of the defendant, the prOpel
course for the authorities was to have
g entered a ROlic prOseqUi in the case O
n Miss Anthony, as well rs in the case:
v of the fourteen other women who vOteC
with her, and that the course actually
pursued towards her was less of prose
u cutiOn than a persecution.
: ReSOlUcd, That Judge Hunt, by or
re- dering the jury in the case of Miss An
q
according to their consciences, but ac
)i cording to his dictatiOn - PRACTICAL.
Y abrogated the sacred and time-hOnOret
D. right to trial by jury and struck a blON
= at the liberties of every man and woma
:, i'm the country.
II ResOlred, That the Hon. Henry II
N Selden in his able defense of his client
III and his noble vindication of the rigl
of trial by jury, is entitled TO the graf
tude of every friend of popular and pei
sonal freedom.
+ RCsOlrCd, That the prosecution, wit
n marked unfairness and unusual vigO
. of a citizen for the sO-called crime {
ie voting when her vote was cast in fave
l of an Administration already under IN;
- terial obligations to her for her service
IN during the canvass preceding that veT
election, made Il mOckery of the or
u spectful consideration" offered for h,
IS claims by the Republican party in Il
ht Philadelphia platform.
aa Mrs. Blake then briefly reviewed Il
proceedings in the trial of Susan b. Al
IL thOny, and strongly condemned Il
st Court, District Attorney and jury. 81
~ maintained that the action of Jud;
. Hunt was subveTsive of the deare
rights guaranteed under the Constit
nj ton. Was there man on that crave
or iury who, when restrained in the exc
o. else of his right to render Il verdict a
4. cOrling to his conscience had the cOu
70 age to stand in his place and record Ia
10 protest? Not one! And was there
man on that jury who could compa
,is with the prisoner at the bar in intel
>. genee, liberality and intellect?
voice, "Not One."l And again, W
y there man in all that courtroom WI
ST. could hold before the world the spOtle
m reputation, the unsullied virtue al
=. purity of character of Susan b. 4
~, thony? This was a ''pOser," and ;
III the men in the audience blushed a
he hung their heads Echo alone answere
TO "Ain't any."l At the conclusion
:. Mrs. Blake's address Mrs. Marie Racl
{" read in German and then in Engli
ay the following letter from the Germ
m Woman's Suffrage Society, address
be 'eTo our noble friend, Susan b. A
thony:"
of The German Woman Suffrage As
citation of New York has been deeJ
OIL interested in the events which led
your arraignment before n legal tril
be nal, as well as in the progress and res
bo of your trial. You have had the war
est sympathy of all its members duri
hS the time you so ably and heroica
Id. endeavOred to Vindicate and establ
ter our rights rs citizens of this Repub
o. We are not all disheartened at the
suit; on the contrary, ii strengthens
10 conviction that our adversaries begin
uld fear the progress of our cause, a
therefore, resort to falsity and injusti
In our great struggle, however, no 6l
is dealt i'm vain, and in the records
4 4 frrfH no al