The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-02
LETTER FROM SUSAN B. ANTHONY

LETTER FROM SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Since the National Woman Suffrage |
Convention, of which you have doubt |
less published proceedings ere this,
have come on to Philadelphia and es-
tablished the "National Woman Suf- |
frage Association head quarters" at 705
Arch street, elegant parlors, where Mrs.
Stanton, Mrs. Gage, and others of US
will stop all summer. Here all the
women connected with our mission may
feel sure of finding a home at a very rea-
sonable cost. Our plan is, to hold at
stated times receptions, cOnUerSdziOneS
meetings, ETC., etc. Our parlors will
seat 200, and being accessible from all
parts of the city, the leaders, and all
others interested in the suffrage move
ment, will have excellent opportunity
to meet and exchange plans and ideas
for a vigorous compaign. Mrs. Gage
and myself have just been to the Asso-
ciate Press general agent and sent off
dispatch, giving the fact of our head
quarters, so you will get that in to-mor-
row mornings papers. Associate tele-
grams smothered the notice here.-ED.l
We have concluded not to join pub
licly in the celebration of the Independ-
ence day of the men, but will, on that
day, hold meeting of the elect in our
parlors and shout out our protest at
t1UeLVe, noon. We shall issue call for
the friends of Woman Suffrage in every
State, county, and township, to gather
together as best they can, on the same
day and hour, and record their protest
and mail or telegraph us copy at once.
Do you not see that it would be the
grandest imaginable thing if we could
have from ten to twenty thousand
Fourth of July protest meetings against
taxation without representation No
matter if only two or three are gathered
together, the spirit of Freedom will be
in their midst to bless their efforts and
crown them with ultimate success.
4uGus "uEl Ill6 lllSll 1uuGDSuuGbGC
day is over, and we have gathered the
actual words they shall have spoken at
their jubilee, we propose to hold grand
convention in the largest hall in Phila-
delphia, and issue our Declaration of
Independence.
Now, Mrs. Abigail Duniway, you
must forge the thunder for us that shall
roll it's echoes through the past and
present centuries! AS the namesake of
Abigail Adams, wife of fone President and
mother of another, and the first woman
who asked suffrage for her sex at the
hands of the First Federal Congress, we
look to you, planted as you are upon the
furthest slope of the American Occi-
dent, to come over and help as until
taxation without representation shall
be Done-away. How 1 wish you were
with US nOlU. Rouse your societies and
demand of them the financial aid you
need to bring you to our councils. They
owe you this assistance, and you should
have it. Let every man and woman in
Oregon and Washington Territory who
feels a spark of local patriotism forward
you one dollar to meet your expenses,
and reimburse you for the time spent to
represent them, and the work is done.
Write us at once, giving your plans,
and what you see we ought to do or say
at Philadelphia on and after the Fourth.
We all feel so unequal to the needs of
this hour. Oh, for the fire of Old Otis
and Patrick Henry!
Inclosed find 50 25 in currency for
my paper. Mother said to me II stopped
one night on my way DOWN, "Mrs.
Duniway has got the best story going
now of all she has written" Don't fail
to stop and visit her on your way over
No. Madison street, Rochester, N. Y.
Please send a copy of the New
NORTHWEST to head quarters, 705 Arch
street, Philadelphia.
Do urge the Oregon and Washington
women to hold their meetings and shout
their protests.
Remember me to all the good friends
of freedom, your own dear children and
sisters, and Mr.. Duniway. L am re-
minded of "specie payment" by the re-
membrance of the jingle of half dollars
when he used to keep door for US at
meetings. How the old memories do
crowd ini SUSAN b. ANTHONY.
] May Is, 1876.