The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-09

and,
WHEREAS, This government is false
to its underlying principles in denying
to it's women citizens the only means of
lf-government, the ballot; and,
WHEREAS, One-balf of the citizens of
this nation, after century of boasted
liberty, are still political slaves; there
fore,
RESOLVED, That we, women citizens of
this nation, protest against calling the
present Centennial celebration a cele-
bration of the independence of THE PEo-
PIE of the United States.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
ResolUed, That we call upon the wom-
en- of the United States to meet in their
respective towns and districts on the
Fourth of July, and to declare them
selves no longer bound to obey laws in
whose making they have had no voice,
and, in persence of the assembled ma
tions of the world gathered on this soil
to celebrate our nations Centennial, to
demand justice for the women of this
land.
PERSONAL LIBERTY.
WHEREAS, The men of this nation
have established for men of all nations,
races, and color, on this SOIL at the cost
of countless lives, the proposition lin
the language of Frederick Douglass)
"that mans head is his head; his body
is his body, his feet are his feet" there
fore,
ResOLUed, That justice, equity, aud
chivalry demand that man at once pro-
ceed to establish for his wife and mother
the corresponding proposition that
woman's head is her head, her body is
Io..h h,,I h., T., !
that all ownership and mastery over her
person, property, conscience, and lib
erty of speech and action, are in viola
ton of the supreme law of the land.
THE POLITICAL PARTY FOR WOMEN.
WHEREAS, The political party in the
approaching campaign which will
pledge itself to remove every obstacle in
the way of the exercise of the right of
suffrage by the women citizens of the
United States, by being true to the fun
damental principles of our government,
thus becomes the true reform party of
the country; therefore,
Resolved, That the party which so
pledges itself will deserve the support of
the women citizens of this nation.
ResOLUed, That we rejoice in the re-
sistance of Julia and Abby Smith, Abby
Kelly Foster, Sarah E. Wall, and many
other resolute women in various parts
of the country, to taxation without rep
resentation.
Resolved, That the efforts made in
one of the political parties of the coun-
try to secure property qualification for
suffrage is an effort of capital to control
labor.
A CENTURY OF DEVOTION.
Resolved, That in the face of constant
| tyranny and injustice toward them on
the part of this government, the women
of this nation, by century of toll and
struggle, suffering and sacrifice, by pa
tient endurance of wrong, by devotion
to the general welfare, by priceless con-
tributions of children to the State, have
proved their patriotism, their fidelity,
their high claim to all the rights, privi-
leges, and immunities of citizenship.
| ResoLUed, That the thanks of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association are
hereby rendered to Hon. A. A. Sargent,
of California, for his earnest words in
behalf of Woman Suffrage on the floor
of the United States Senate January %,
1876.
Resolved, That the thanks of this As
ISOLATION are hereby rendered to the
Hon. n. F. Banks, of Massachusetts, for
his appeal in behalf of the Centennial
Woman Suffrage Memorial in the
United States House of Representatives
March 81, 1876.
ResoLUed, That the money in the
Treasury of the United States belongs
to the women of the United States
equally with men, and that whether it
is recklessly squandered in elevating to
office and strengthening the hands of
the men who unjustly rule over us, or is
meanly boarded to furnish political
capital to other men who desire to rule
over us, the women of the country are
equally wrOnged and defrauded, while
the interests of the whole people are
wantonly sacrificed to mans love of
place and power.
LICENSE FOR SOCIAL VICE.
Resolved, That the repeated efforts
and the strong tendency of men toward
the licensing of the social evil are a
practical confession of the weakness,
profligacy, and general unfitness of such
men to legislate for women, and should
be regarded with alarm by the women
of the country as a proof that their fire.
sides aud the liberties of women are in
constant peril while men only make
and execute the laws of this country.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
WHEREAS, For seventy-six years the
assembled masculine wisdom of this ma
tion has been unable to divise just,
economical, and efficient form of gov
ernment for the District of Columbia;
and,
WHEREAS, The management of af-
fairs in that District has been unjustly
attributed by the people of the United
States to the people of the District; and
WHEREAS, There are 1000 more
women than men in said District, and
no form of government for said District
has allowed women any voice in max
ing the laws under which they live
therefore,
ReSoLUcd, That in this Centennial
year the Congress of the United States
J having exclusive jurisdiction over thai
: territory, should establish a truly Re-
publican form of government upon thai
) national soil by granting equal suffrage
to the men and women citizens of the
! District of Columbia.
At the evening session, despite vio-
lent storm, fair audience collected,
consisting largely of gentlemen. Miss
Susan B. Anthony read caretully-pre-
pared paper on the legal questions in
volved in woman's present demand fol
the ballot. 1t contained many quota
tions from the early declarations OF
those who were contendiDg for liberty
one hundred years ago. She told with
much effect the story of the different