The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-10-23
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.


DEAR READErs OF THE NEW NoTTHwEsT:
The other day we were busy lettering
about the State Fair grounds, and won
dering what upon earth We were there
for, when a puff of wind waited the
Daily Oregonian to our feet, bearing
date-the paper, not the feet-October
sth, and containing some correspondence
of the most conclusive proofs that man
or boy-cannot be depended upon to
protect woman that we have ever seen
anywhere.
We are told that the writer of the cor
respondence was Master George Strong,
boy who penny-a-lines-it on the Ore
go1aidn and imagines that it's glorious
achievement to be "a free white male"
Had it not been for this information, we
should certainly have thought the "Un-
purchasable Woman" or his satellite,
Bradshaw, had written it, for did not
the boy decide adversely to the claims
of woman before the Legislature for
equal rights, and ought he not to be
properly spanked for his impudence?
In speaking of the fact that Mrs. Bal
lou and Mrs. Duniway were each allowed
ten minutes in which to reply to the
Legislative solons who had proved them
selves unworthy 10 be relied upon to
protect women, says the boy George:
''Here commenced q scene which might
have been ludicrous in the extreme had
one been able 10 forget that the address
was made before one branch of the Ore
gon Legislature. After Mrs. b. came
the deluge. The House extended a SIM
liar courtesy to Mrs. Duniway. Both oi
these advocates seemed to lose sight oi
the fact that they appeared by courtesy,
or by Suferance;" and then follows q
base tissue of malignant falsehoods,
quite equal in potency to the windy
question intended for argument always
used by the opponents of Human Free
dom before the slave was emancipated-
''Do you want your daughter to marry
a nigger 81
The summing up of the boys nara
tive amounts to this: "This is a mans
government, made by man and for man.
1t is perfectly right and proper for man,
in the exercise of his lordly freedom, "a
assail, abuse, malign and slander wom-
en-, but it is intensely mortitying to the
dignity of members like Bradshaw
and Johnson, or children like George
Strong, for women TO forget that it is
only by 'su6erdnce' that the free white
males permit them TO cry out against
injustice when they are lashed by licen-
tious Legislative tongues, or misrepre-
sented by voting upstarts who are bare
ly out of pinafores."
Mrs. Ballou and Mrs. Duniway did
not stoop to "personalities' in present
ing their rightful claims to self-protec.
tion before the dignified (?) ounces who
unblushingly assailed all womanhood
in the Legislature. Those honorable
members who did not forget the digni-
ties and proprieties of the occasion, y
were, like every other man Of sense who
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highly delighted with their exhibition
of womanly dignity and the force o
their arguments, presented with du,
Difference to the good feelings Of all gen
uemen in the House of Representative
as well as all decent and reliable visitors
The boys attack upon the ladies, &C
companied by his approving account o
the worse than beastly attack of Brad,
shaw upon Mrs. Duniway, marks an ers
in his history which he will live to be
heartily ashamed of.
Ladies of Oregon, remember that be.
fore the negro became voter he was
compelled to endure just such attacks,
misrepresentation and self conceited
exhibitions of voting Smorness. Re.
member that dissertations upon "mis-
cegenation" and ignorance" burdened
the newspapers, and that colored men
were compelled to hear themselves
abused because of their "kinky heads
thick skulls and long heels" But the
negro is voter now, and even Master
George Strong can see that he has
rights" which Legislatures are bound
to respect.
We are surprised TO see such a mess oi
falsehood from the pen of George. 1t is
not at all like his usual vein, and we
surmise that it must have been inspired
by the same spirit of independence
which caused the election of such O
monstrosity as Bradshaw to the Oregon
Legislature. 4. J. d.