The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-02-06
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

\ lelteT from this distinguished cIiaIn-
Dion of right, dated Dec. /, 1878, has just
reached us, inclosed within another of /
late, Jan. Is, 1874, in which Susan says: |
i1sn't this too bad ? Here, this minute,
comes back the enclosed letter, with a
call to attend a Convention just closed. |
I directed it to Portland, Maine. have |
mailed you the Washington papers con-
tanning good, or fair reports, unless l
have put in the Chronicles report the
first day, which was perfectly ridiculous. |
But the second day, noting the strong
tide Of public opinion in our favor, tire
pented and reported decently.
ave have never had better Conven-
ton. House packed. Mrs. Stanton's
address the first evening was the grand
est she ever gave, and everybody said
she never looked so perfectly queenly as
tdat night. On the last evening our
dear Phebe Couzens on. "Women as
Lawyers" made powerful and eloquent
address. Every way, Miss C., as lee
turer, is a success. She thoroughly
charms her audiences. 1t is a rich COM
pensation to us old workers to see and
hear such brave young eloquence. May
her like be multiplied throughout the
land.
az hope you will be sustained. IL the
sympathizers in the movement in the
Northwest could realize how powerless
they would be if, through lack of fl
nancial aid, they should lose Woman
Suffrage organ, they would rally to your
standard far better than they do.
General Butler is TO present our Dis
trict of Columbia Suffrage Petition to
the House tomorrow. Next business
is n hearing before the Judiciary Com
mittee, on extending suffrage to the
women of the District, and then he will
report Bill TO the house, and feels sure
he can bring Congress to vote that will
make our friends and enemies show their
hand on the main question; for the Dis
trict is solely United States ground, and
Congress has sole Jurisdiction over the
Suffrage and everything else.
''Print the petition in large type and
make an urgent appeal to every one to
cut it out and paste it at the head of q
sheet and gather up n few names and
send on TO Senator Mitchell and keep
him provided with new names every
morning.
al have put in petition for Congress
to remit my fine-thus rebuking Judge
Hunt and making discussion in Con-
gress and courts.
az go into Connecticut to canvass the
State during last of January and Feb
ruary.
"Now, don't fail to have good society
report at our May annual meeting.
Shall the names Of your State officers
stand on our list the same as last year ?''
The private portions of Susan's letter
is too good to keep, and, although not
intended for publication, We are sure
she will forgive us for quoting few SEN
tences. They reveal the soul of a pure
woman that will not be hidden under
what sometimes would seem to be a Sc
we're exterior: 'I noticed with deep
sensations Of pleasure your grand Olym-
pia work. How it carried one back two
/ yeaTsl and how time flies! In one sense
/ it seems bnt a day, but in another
/ have been through so much that il seems
as If two years could not hold it. The
dear friends l found in Oregon anG
/ Washington Territory will never be for
/ gotten. Love to all who remember me
not forgetting Mrs. Gibson, DR.. Thomp
son, the two Mrs. Williams, the Eliots
and the many who compose your OWL
household and relations. How do wisl
we could chat together to-nightw
Who that has never met Susan q
Anthony except on the rostrum, or reaC
her speeches as reported through tn,
brains and by the fingers of narrow
minded Bohemians, would imagine
that beneath the air of earnest, argu
mentative defiance to unjust Legislation
which fires up her whole organism anC
settles with a glow of enthusiasm upon
her candid face; that behind the sever
ity of the logician and the appareu
hardness OF manner that rise up agains
legal oppression, beats the true heart ol
a mother Of womanhood g.? The aboy,
unstudied sentences from her pen are bu
slimpses of her afIectionate inner lif
that sheds its kindliest rays upon thos,
who have known her best and longest
Long may she be spared to do battle fo
the right. We know crown of anna
, ranths awaits her in the Better Land.