The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-06-26


be rights and privileges to her, they
could take care of the women aud pro-
vide all things necessary for them.
This is the shareholders logic, also of
the State OF Connecticut. Women have
no rights that the men are bound to fe-
speet. This half Of our citizens, whom /
the State has disfranchised, she obliges /
to nav equally and perhaps more for all I
her institutions aud Improvements \
though she can have none OF its offices
or emolumeBts; these belong to the su-
perior class. The women are more nom /
est then the men. They are moral BET,
ter citizens. They are never seen rounu
the prog-shops, and therefore make the
STATE verv little trouble and expense in
comparison to the men. Should shei
with her small earnings, be taxed ior
the mems bad conduct, for those great
and extensive buildings erected 10
confine the men for disturbing the
public peace? There are but Two
women in our States Prison anu
028 men. The women suffer the most
! from drink in their houses, but could the
man know that his wife could vote
against his getting il, il would restrain
| him even in his maddened moments.
| What peace would that alone bring 70
nearly half the inhabitants OF the state?
/ Can the men of this State prosper who
have thus forsworn and repudiated the
very principles on which they based
their claims, when they separated from
the mother country, making the most
solemn observation to the justice OF their
claims, before the face of the whole
world. founded as they said on natural
rights, that government derive their
inst powers from the consent of the
governed, and taxation without repre-
sentation is tyranny? Can these men
that govern our State 60 SO directly con-
trary TO their own doctrines that they
have sworn to support, without incur
ring the penalty affixed to the trans
gression of the moral law? What did
they suffer from Great Britain beyond
the seas, to what the women suffer now
{ in half the houses OF tins lanu from
b brutal men who claim the right to
tvranism over their own families? But
, have they already gone on with impu-
nitv i'm degrading their own mothers,
! wives and daughters, to state that
they feel no interest in the affairs OF
government, having no voice in the
matter? There is nothing in this world
that concerns the inhabitants OF every
land where they live, men and women,
so much as does the government OF that
land. As the laws are administered in
Justice and impartiality, in imitation Of
the laws OF our Maker, that land will
prosper il they are not In vain We
labor for it. Ii requires mind, deep
thought and contTivance TO accomplish
the greatest Of all earthly good; not only
OF the men, but Of the women; for il
man degrades woman, her intellect and
his intellect will suffer also, for he is OF
r the woman and from the woman, and
, l.. f-a st-ffHnnnf hnr In ~ ..
) ever situation in life he places her, with
} or without intellect, he must descend to
! her level. He has taken from her al
interest in the affairs Of government
{ determined to carry on that business
n alone, rejecting family government
!. instituted In the beginning of the earth
= where all the members are equally care,
, for, and what is the consequence
D Look at the women OF the land a. they
r are ruled by the men, instead OF being
{ ruled by the laws. Are they not wholly
D given up 10 dress and outside show
5 which requires no mind, no intellect
) And look at the men also-our Congress
J the highest court in the eOuntry-arC
! they not also wholly given up TO OBJ
tanning the means TO crafty the out
ward desires Of themselves and their
! families? Does mind rule in that body
And we all know that without that the
! outward prosperity will soon perish
I We pray you, gentlemen, TO cast away
7 your heather code of laws, founded OF
e birth instead of justice, and frame youl
4 laws as the laws Of your Maker al,
r framed, where there is neither bonds ol
= free, male or female, God having from
: the beginning made both Of one flesh
II aud all the inhabitants OF the eartl
!. stand alike in in his sight. God ha
Is made of one blood all nations OF mel
n TO dwell on all the face OF the earth, all,
o made but one law for their government
e and ile that obeys that law shall live b,
'r it, and he that disobeys il snail be pun
e ished by ii. Does he mean men alon
h or has he included the women also? VIII
m does man need but one law for the gov
" eTnment Of both? In view OF all thes
re considerations we pray that equal right
y may be accorded to Us according to tn
3 Fourteenth Amendment of the Unite
ss States Constitution, which says all pc.
~ sons born or naturaliZed i'm the Unite
y States, and subject to the jurisdictio
" thereof, are citiz6Hs of the United State
y sand OF the State i'm which they resid,
rs no State shall make or enforce any la
G, which shall abridge any privileges {
re immunities of the citizens OF the Unite
al States, nor shall any State deprive an
re person OF life, liberty or property witt
=; out process OF law, nor deny to any pei
e, son without its jurisdiction the equ'
II protection OF the laws? And have "
So had equal protection OF the laws whe
n our property can be taken from us
Of any time without our having any voiC
i'm the matter. Can any reason be give
n why il is not as wrong to take money
ed this way from woman as II would
lie from man, contrary To all this coui
er try's bOasted laws OF freedom?