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LETTER FROM ROSEBuRG.

Dear NeiC NOrthiUest:- am thank
ful for the kind privilege you have
granted to such timid mortal as my
self to express my sentiments on equal
rights to all, without distinction of sex.
Believe me, 1 was much panied to
read in the advocate that the Woman
Suffrage delegation was denied a seat in
the Temperance Union. think by so
doing they are retarding the progress OF
temperance. 1t is my humble opinion,
and that of many others 1 have con-
versed with on the subject of temper
ance, that the Alliance ought to admit
delegates from all classes of the COM
munity that are in favor of temperance,
morality Justice and equality. Pm aware
that some will tell me that there are in
dividuals connected with the Woman
Movement Of an Objectionable charac-
ter. Be it so, but is there society on
earth that has not some that others will
object to? 1 think not, even in the
Church ITSELF challenge the world to
produce sample; and because it is so
shall we close the doors and try to stop
the progress of civilization and leave
humanity to grope in darkness as we
have been doing? Let US take all by
the hand and say, "Come with us and
we will do you good"
Dear friends of Equal Rights, believe
my heart. and soul is with you, and
say take courage. All the powers of
earth cannot stop your progress nor pre-
vent the accomplishment of your work,
for truth and justice are on your side
Men have not begun to think OF the ben
efits that will accrue TO the human fam
lily by giving their sisters and mothers
an equal chance with them. 1t would
open up a thousand new streams of
thought to woman's mind which never
entered il before, and as a necessary
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

Dear Mrs. Dlmilcdy:-YOur spicy pa
per comes regularly and is very accept
able reminder of you and Of the progress
of the cause at the far West. L think
we have never had so good reason to re-
joice as at present. On every side there
are signs of progress. Our Convention
in Washington was grand affair; great
crowds of people filled the hall three
times day, and, indeed, the interest
was so great that the audiences almost
refused to adjourn, and one or two hum
dred women remained in the building
between the sessions.
You have the account i'm your paper,
L see, of our great mass-meeting Of
women to protest against taxation
without representation" held here on
the centennial anniversary of the Bos-
ton tea-party. Following that up, we
circulated petition to the same effect,
and recently Miss Anthony, Mrs. Gage
and myself appeared before the Judici-
ary Committee of the Assembly at
Washington and plead for the justice Of
the claim. You have published accounts
of that also. What thronged and in
terested audience we had! To-day the
papers tell me that Mr.. BOrie, our gall
liant champion there, has presented q
bill in accordance with our views, urg-
ing that the women of the State be ex-
empt from taxation.
On every side we hear of signs of prog
ress this war carried on so yigor-
ously by the women of Ohio against
whisky shows that they mean to be
up and doing, and that they have
views and would doubtless like to ex-
press them. Only the other day in
Philadelphia many ladies who have
been devoted to charity, came suddenly
into politics to advise Mr.. StOakly as q
candidate for election on the ground ol
his great services in the cause of moral
ity. 1t will not be possible much longer
for men to say that "wOmen do not want
to vote"
Our regular meetings here are larger
attended than they were before, and on
all sides We see evidences of the rising
tide that shall yet carry our cause to
victory.
Yours as ever,
LILLE DEvEREUX BLAKE,
LOG East 55th street, y. y. City, Feb
ruary Is, 1874.
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perity of society," say, man having all
these sources of power in his possession,
and with the purse in one hand and the
sword in the other, he will not share his
advantages till he shall be forced to do
so by an outside pressure too strong for
him to meet.
1t must be obvious to the thoughtful
that under these circumstances the en-
franchisement and emancipation of the
one-half and least demonstrative of our
population-the turning in new direc-
tions the current of public sentiment,
honor, influence, wealth and authority
from the ancient channels, ground out
and walled up by the interests, tradi-
tions, prejudIees and customs of untold
ages, is a reform, or rather revolution
too broad, comprehensive and sweeping
to be accomplished in a decade, or gen.
Grafton, even.
Men will gain as much as women by
the proposed reform. Slavery reflected
its curses heaped upon the slave back on
his oppressor. Our civilization can do
but little more for humanity without
the cooperative influence of women.
should like to be at your Convention
if only to say few earnest words for the
NEW NORTHWEST and its able, perse-
vering and plucky editor. Help her, l
beg of you, to keep it constantly before
the people. Don't wait till it shall
cease to be to learn of its value.
Regretting again my inability to be
with you, and hoping that your Ami
versary will be both pleasant and prof
liable occasion for yourselves and the
cause, 1 am, very respectfully,
Yours for Progress,
JOHN \. COLLINS.
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THOSE "CoW-woMEE. /"

Under this head the San Francisco
Daily Bulletin, sage counsellor and
powerful representative ally of the vot-
ing sex, discourseth thusly:
The Glostonburg Conn women who refused
10 nay their town taxes, on the ground that
they had no vote, and that taxation without
representation was contrary TO the genius of
American Institutions have ELECTED good
deal OF discussion, pro and con, on the appar-
ent hardships OF their case, from the Northern
and Western press. They have permitted some
Alderney cows, which they owned, 10 be sold
by the hard-hearted minions OF the law, rather
than give up the principle for which our fore
fathers fought and bled. or fed, as the facts
may be, in the war OF the Revolution. The
Chicago Tribune" deals rather roughly with
these female martyrs OF liberty, and goes Into
the antecedents OF Abby Smith, the ring-leader
Of the sisters, calling her the eow-woman Of
Glostonburg, and remArklng that she has an
inherited right 10 attract popular attention, rs
"her father was a minister, then a lawyer, and,
finally, mild sort OF heathen." Not content
with this, the Tribune" becomes discouTteous
10 her mother, who, 1t says, "was romantic and
nervous, las If that were an unprecedented
weakness among ladies', so nervous that she
had glass cage made in which she might read
novels without being disturbed by the undula-
tion OF the air. The five daughters were named
Cynthia Clementna, Laura Lucretia Letitia,
Julia Juliana Jacques, Anna Alleroglia, and
Abby Clayigero. Their uncouthness was the
talk Of the neighborhood, until their mother,
late in life, began their education. Since they
reached maturity they have been devoted to
the isms, and have done good service in insur-
ing the triumph Of some OF them. II the ruth
less Collector seizes the rest OF the COWS, Miss
Smith should buy one back, put it in the glass
cage that used TO guard her mother from the
roughly-undulating air, and exhibit II and her
self" The Springfield (MaSs) Republican" :"
which is ihe great champion OF the glastonbury
women, should take its rough Chicago brother
in hand. On the subject OF those glastonbury
cows he is as niischieyous as "a bull in a china
shop"
No other evidence that the fame of
the Smith sisters, of Glastonbury, and
their cotrs, is to far exceed that of the
primal movers in the "Boston tea
party" business of hundred years ago
is needed than the fact that these ugly
misrepresentation are going the rounds
among the Tory propagandists of the
mans rights press.
If intelligence is to be the basis of rep
resentation, we respectfully suggest that
the proprietors of the Chicago Tribune
and San Francisco Bulletin be gently
compelled TO waive the exercise of their
political rights until they shall have
had opportunity, under the instructions
of the taxed and misrepresented Misses
Smith, of Glastonbury, to learn to read
and correctly comment upon the plain
est of American print; also, that they
never be allowed to vote again until
they have studied the simplest rudi-
ments Of elementary Geography. "Glos-
tonburg" is good.
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the liberation and subsequent eufran-
chisement of colored men. The work
oil third party mcu" is one of the
scourges with which Providence is lash
ing the Republican party into the line
Of duty. For this reason we look on and
smile serenely, knowing that woman's
hour is already dawning.
The next National Administration
hight will be made by Republicans, un-
der leaders pledged to Woman Suffrage,
whose watchword will be the tails
manic sentence, taxation without rep
resentation is tyranny" We do not
say this in glorifcation of the Republi-
can party. This party will do its own
boasting over its ''grand achievement
after it has been compelled to perform
it, and we have no wish TO steal its
thunder. But we say it because being
led by the light of past events, we see
that it is true.
There is no issue of any moment be-
tween the Democratic, and Republican
and Independent" parties of to-day.
The fight is wholly between "outs" and
Sins"
There is no possibility for a good gov
ernment to be founded and perpetuated
upon a sexual idea. This has been the
vital mistake of the American people,
and no political "reform" or party that
fails to recognize the equity of equal
rights for men and women can have a
ghost of chance for success in 1876.
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PROCEEDINGS
of rHE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE OREGON
STATE ". S. ASSOCIATION.
PoRrLAND, Monday, Feb. Is, 1874.


PORTLAND, Monday, Feb. is, 1874.
Committee met at the residence of O.
b. Gibson.
Members present-Mrs. a. b. Gibson,
Mrs. J. DeVore johnson, Col. G. A.
Reed and Mrs. c. a. Coburn.
1t was moved that the Committee fill
the vacancies in the Vice Presidencies
of the several counties unprovided for.
Carried. The following counties were
thus supplied: Wasco county, Mrs. J.
G.. Wilson; Coos, Mrs. L. NJ. Lockhart;
Umatilla, Mrs. Lena Bishop.
Moved that the Corresponding Secre-
tary be directed to correspond with GER
tain named persons in Jackson, Union,
Josephine and Curry counties, relative
to proper persons in these counties for
Vice Presidents of the same. Carried.
Moved, that the President be request
ed TO call a mass meeting at Salem dur
ing the next session of the Legislature.
Carried.
Moved, that petitions to the Legisla-
ture and to Congress be sent to each
Postmaster or others who sympathize
with the movement for signatures; such
petitions to be returned by them to the
Vice Presidents, who will present them
at the time of the called meeting. Car
ried.
Moved, that the Committee request
Hon. w. Carey Johnson to prepare an
argument upon the right of women to
vote under the present Constitution and
laws of Oregon, and one upon the pres
ent disabilities of married women; the
same to be submitted to the Executive
Committee at their next meeting. Car
ried.
Moved, that the Committee on Ad-
dresses be instructed to prepare an ad-
dress to the people of Oregon, the same
to be submitted TO the Executive Com
mittee at its next regular meeting. Car
ried.
Moved, that Mrs. Duniway be re-
quested to furnish through the New
NoRTHwETT Information as to where
tracts, books and other papers may be
obtained either for sale orgratuitous dis
tribution. Carried.
Moved, that Mrs. Duniway be in
structed to print, for distribution, such
matter as this Convention shall from
time to time order, and TO draw pay for
the same from the funds of the State
Association. Carried.
Moved, that the NEW NORTHWEST be
the declared organ of the Executive
Committee and State Association, and
that auxiliary societies be instructed by
the Corresponding Secretary to aid in
increasing its circulation. Carried.
Moved, that Mrs. Duniway be ap-
pointed lecturing and organizing agent
for the Association for the current year.
Carried.
Moved, that n copy OF these proceed
ings be sent TO the NEW NORTHWEST
for publication. Carried.
Committee then adjourned to meet
in Portland on the first Monday in May.
ABBY b. GIBSON,
c. A. REED,
J. DEVoRE JOHNSON,
G. A. CoBURN,
Executive Committee o. S. W. S. 4.
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to the pure water and wide wheat-fields,
etc. No hint was given that the bald
hills back of The Dalles were fruitful
and dotted with homes; or that the
Washington side of the Columbia offered
homesteads, good markets and produc-
tive soil to settlers; ditto the Sound
country. Perhaps these things are re-
served for Eastern people, who really
know very little (the masses) of our
Eden-like far Northwest-its extent, eli
mate or productions.
At manufacturing town in Massa-
ehusetts an educated woman-so far as
routine of schools is concerned-seri-
-ously asked US ''if the people of Port
land, Oregon, had any musical instru-
ments?" Also If "California generally
used sewing machines ?"
The matinee given by Reeds Pano-
rama to children and grown people last
Saturday at ten cents each was attended
by 1000 persons, and a large audience
in the evening at 80 cents. Our people are
swift to appreciate the desire of Mr..
Towl to give all an opportunity to see Q
glimpse of the grandest river and
country on the continent. Real works
of art can afford to invite the visiting
masses to enjoy and criticise their mer'
its. We regret that the area of the
Willamette Valley capable of producing
apples and wheat was not given.
Dear old substantial, home-making
Oregon. We do not forget her kind
hearted people. We expect to meet
them again and congratulate them wheI
they admit their women-citizens to the
care-taking of the interests of the chill
dren, the sick and the insane in as wei
as out of Legislative Halls.
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The letters from which we take the
following extracts were accompanied by
notices of subscribers dues:
I admire and honor you for your Her
culean efforts in holding up the hands
of the oppressed sex, and placing them
upon a higher plane of thought and
womanhood. 1 honor you for your
courage, energy and stability, and none
the less for your adroitness and tact.
''The battle is not to the strong Alone"
etc. "You have fought q good fight"
Yours Truly has a mind that is une-
qualed, If she is not an amanuensis.
will try to patronize you again soon.
Respectfully yours,
+. w. ENGLE.
Gervais, February 20, 1874.
Your excellent paper is not only a
welcome guest in our family, but is
"passed around" to neighboring friends
each week. Hoping and trusting that
your labors may not be in vain, re-
main yours very truly,
ELLEN S. CHASIBERLIN.
Salem, February 2S, 1874
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would expand her mental
powers. The greater the mind of the
mother, the greater the mind OF the
child. This would be one of the greatest
benefits that could be conferred on the
human family. Would to God men
would read and study the laws God has
made to govern us, but especially the
law of transmission of both the good
and bad qualities.
Mrs. Duniway, you have few warm
friends here that will speak out for the
good cause by and by. Thank God pub
lie sentiment and opinion are last
changing and soon many thousands VIII
flock to your standard.
Yours for freedom, and justice to all,
JOHN EAsToN.
Roseburg, February 90, 1874.
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A VOICE FROM THE PENITENTIARY.

The writer Of the following is un-
known to us, but we trust he will for
give us for giving the world the benefit
of his thoughts:
A. j. DamiUdy-Dedr Mdddm:-Hav-
ing had the pleasure of listening to the
interestingand instructive lecture which
you delivered in our chapel few even
ings ago, and being, as we all were,
highly pleased with it, and feeling con-
fident that | should derive much profit
as we'll as pleasure from the perusal of
your valuable paper, inelose a post Of
flee order for one dollar and fifty cents,
for which please send me your paper for
six months.
We are all living in hopes of hearing
you again. If you can ever make it
convenient to pay us another visit 1
hope you will DO so, for your former lee
did US a great deal of good.
We feel that you are a true friend to
those in misfortune, and we wish you
success in the great work you are labor
ing to accomplish. I hope the day is
not far distant when every lady in the
land shall have a voice in the making of
our laws. Then the Rum Fiend will be
driven from our borders, and thousands
Of young men saved from the prison and
the gallows, for intemperance is the
mother Of all our misfortunes.
Hoping that have not infringed too
long on your valuable time, 1 submit
myself,
Yours in misfortune,
c. c. KELLY.
Orennn State Prison. Eehrnary %. "a.
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THOUGHTS FROM SALEM.

Oh, deari What silly ideas some men
have in regard to women voting! / have
just had a talk with three gentlemen.
Each had a different opinion. One de-
cided that if women should vote they
would lose their present high position
in the esteem and respect of men, and
If men should lose their respect for them,
women would become low and degraded;
"For," said he, linen now look upon
women as something noble and grand,
as superior to themselves, to be shielded
from everything rough, and man would
be lost if he hadn't woman to look up TO
and honor"
Now, Mrs. Duniway, couldn't help
thinking that if men do really look upon
woman in that light the majority of
them have very poor way Of showing
it. For women are compelled, by GUS
tom and usage, to say nothing of the
will of their husbands, to do all the
lowest drudgery and most unhealthy
work of the world. never can see
much beauty in woman when she is
bent over the wash-tub, up to her elbows
in the dirty suds, engaged in that en-
nobling business of cleansing her hus-
dand's socks and linen while the baby
screams and her tired back aches to rest,
and her tried heart yearns toward the
child, which she ought to be protected
in caring for.
have heard man say: "This is wash
day, and the old woman is cross" Won
der how superior he thought her
them Men never admire women when
they are scrubbing dirty floors or trying
out old grease or making soap, but /
have never yet heard one of them argue
that for this reason laws should be en-
acted toprevent them from doing this dis
agreeable work. On the contrary,
have heard them grumble at their wives
because their socks or shirts were not
washed or mended, and have heard
them scold because soap-making was
not done up before night, so they
wouldn't "be bored with seeing it round
the house"
And so, putting this and that to-
gether, have reached this conclusion:
Men are quite content to allow women
to perform mental, unpaid drudgery,
but they are not willing that they
should have equal chances with them
selves to rise above it, or they would
not make laws to bind them in political
servitude.
OF course you will understand that
what say applies only to work
ing women. Idle women and women of
the town, who are practically supported
by men, may be noticed at some future
time. EO.
Salem, Oregon.
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PRAYING DOWN SALOONS.

This exciting topic, being just now tn,
theme of the newspapers, it behoovei
us to have an editorial word upon it.
To begin, then, we are rejoiced 10 set
something started which will bring the
women to the knowledge that they can
deviate from long-established customs
without bringing down the heavens
upon their heads. Thousands and tens
Of thousands of them will blockade side
walks, interfere with municipal ordi-
nances, sing and pray in the most public
places to be seen Of men, and by this means
be awakened to q realizing sense of their
political duties, when but for an excite
ment that originated upon the plane of
their religious prejudices they could
have never been induced TO go before
the public at all.
"GOd moves in a mysterious way
His wonders 10 perform"
And we see in this uprising among
the women, the beginning of the end Of
political upheaval which will not stop
short Of their universal demand for a
right TO prevent by law that which they
now assail by religious anarchy.
We have much faith in the potency
of singing and prayer. A concentrated
effort OF the minds of the majority of the
people in any community, TO accom-
plish any one object by this means, was
never known to fail as long as the pres
ure lasted. But. as this constant Dublic
praying among the women cannot last,
the effect will cease as soon as the cause
Is withdrawn, unless the law-making
power is given into their hands, with
which TO cliEch the pivot of eonvic-
ton which the arrows of their prayers
are sending home.
Again: Hundreds Of prejudiee-be-
blinded-editors, who would condemn a
raid upon the ballot-bOx and law-mak-
ing power as unfeminine, are attacked
on their vulnerable side by the ''canr'
Of singing and praying, which they
dare not attack for bread and bgtters
sake, and they will laud these women
continually, thereby encouraging them
TO demand, as the outgrowth oftheir prs
ent action, equal rights before the law.
This recognition of woman's right TO q
voice in making the laws, whose effects
she cannot avoid, is becoming every day
more and more imperative.
We are anxious to see the ladies' cru
sade begin in Portland.
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NEW POLITICAL PARTIES.

Until we went East two years ago,
we were strongly imbued with the idea
that the formation Of a third party was
necessary for the publication ofpOlitics.
But the Liberal Republican movement
proved such a stupendous failure, and
the animus of the men who engineered
it such a gigantic fraud, that We were
forced TO see that, in times of peace, it is
not the best men who want to form new
parties, but rather those ousted tricks
ters and disappointed shysters of exist
ing parties, who, having found their
levil in their own organizations insist
upon forming new ones in which they
hope TO figure as leaders.
The intelligent observer of all sides Of
the political situation-and the one who
observes all sides is the only one enti-
tied to pass judgment-sees clearly, in
this so-called independent movement in
Oregon, a determination among the ef-
fete "reformers" who head it, to scruple
at no trickery which they may deem
necessary for building up their shat
tered political fortunes upon the ruins
of the parties they no longer hope to
rule.
The Liberal Republican swindle,
which denied to the millions of unrepre-
sented women of America that recogni-
ton which would alone have made its
aiders and abettors successful, is being
enacted over again on a very small scale
in Oregon, and the men who engineer
it are Just as determined to resist the
acknowledgement of women as were the
same class of mslcontents in their
played out prototype.
"But," says the reader, "what have
you TO expect from existing political
organizations ?p
We answer, clearly nothing that it is
not to their partisan interest to grant.
We have long since learned not TO ask
oi the powers that be any boon or right
unless We can make them see that their
own interests are to be best subserved nv
granting our demands.
Something near two years .oo No
saw, watching from political pinnacle
which we might not yet have reached
had not kind Providence guided me %
Boston, the proper place from which %
take such horoscope observations The,
the work of woman's enfranchisen,ort
was TO come throgh the Republican
party. We saw, too, that this party was
not disposed to do this work, and we VET
see the same indisposition among many
of its members. But this dislike to bs
just is no greater now, so far as womer
are concerned, than it was a few year
ago, with the same party, in regard t.