The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-02-13
YOURS TRULY" sPBAKBTH.

Yours Truly is disgusted with the
genus masculine. Not content with
having thrown every obstacle OF narro"
and sour misanthropy I'D
the scale of their political privileges
wherewith to outweigh the great prinei-
pie of Human Rights, and dissatisfied
with the fact, patent, at last, 10 lne
most imbecile and obtuse observer, that
the cause is triumphantly marching for
ward TO the fulfillmsnt of its glorious
destiny, it is now the fashion, among
many of these sage (?) protectors ~ TO
cry out tragically, 1--WE have nothing
against the cdusey Our objection is to
Mrs. Duniwayw
Yours Truly is only school girl, but
she is a pretty thorough reader oil her
eountry's history, and she is not un-
mindful of the fact that many Tories in
Revolutionary times, who fought
against freedom as long as there was
any possible show for them to win,
sought, at last, TO break the sudden fall
consequent upon their inglorious defeat,
by crying out against General WASH
ington, who had led the forlOrn hope OF
his despised and destitute Continental
army from Valley Forge TO victory
She also remembers how, when history
repeated itself in the late struggle for
the preservation of the Nations herit-
age, this same class of oppression
shriekers, finding that Freedom was
again winning the day, sought to raise
a clamor to cover up the disgrace OF
defeat by vehemently abusing Abraham m
Lincoln, who, in the consciousness OF a
noble and unselfish purpose, pursued the
even tenor of his way until the personal
opposition to himself reached its culmi-
nation and he fell by the assassin's bull
let. And now this same fell spirit oi
oppression, urged on by all the imps ol
evil, finding it impossible TO longer sue
eessfully oppose the equality of woman
by striking at the cause itself, cries oul
in frantic acclaim, ave wish the cause
T III vi BhA NiNaHNA -
against the Duniwayn
There may be, and no doubt are, many
men who have no better sense than to
be entrapped by such an outcry, but
women, even if they are but school girls
/ possess sufficient acumen to under
stand the animus of all such opposition,
These fellows know full well that the
/ Woman Movement without Mrs. Duni-
way would be like locomotive without
steam, an army without leader, Z
France without Napoleon, or-to pat
the proposition upon their own plane
an office without greenbacks. They
know quite as well, rs do the Woman
Sufiragists, that but for Mrs. Duniway
the Woman Movement in Oregon and
Washington Territory would he just
where it was three years ago; and in
stead of finding, as We do now in the
public library, score or more newspa.
pers that speak hopefully of the speedy
success the cause, albeit many of them
decry its leader, it would be impossible
for its advocates to get one respectful
word from the public press.
Mrs. Duniway's fight has been long
and self-denying one, but her friends
are Legion and all the outcry of enven.
omed opponents will only make the vie
tory the grander.
Then persevere, brave, struggling
heart. BE not intimidated by the rag,
of your enemies. Your friends viii
stand around you as wall of impene
trable fire; and though often th,
poisoned arrows Of malignity fly
about and around you and sometimes
pierce you sorely, they will not strike
you down, for over the heads of those
who labor in the great vineyard of Lib.
erty hover the angels of hope and con,
ISOLATION and mercy; and as they note tn,
vehement efforts of the sons Of oppres
sion to fasten in your quivering flesh tn,
arrows of their venom, they draw closel
around your devoted head and swear By
the God Of Freedom that all the gate,
OF Hell shall not prevail against you.
That the great cause of humanity il
which you are so devotedly laboring
may triumph in the early future is the
sincere desire and expectation of
Yours Truly.