The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
EDITORIAL OORRBsPONDRNOR.


DEAR READERS OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Between conflicting emotions of joy
and sorrow we again essay to write you.
We are glad because our book is done;
glad because the critics like it; glad be-
cause there is a prospect that it will pay
its way; glad, thrice glad, because we're
going home! But oh, so sorry that we
had to be absent when Willis left the
parental roof P! 1t seemed we couldn't
live and bear it. The one simple para
graph, announcing that the boy who
had been for three years foreman on the
NEW NORTHWEST, who had set type on
every issue thus far, and who had now
plumed his pinions and betaken him
self to San Francisco, there to carve a
career of his own, meant very little to
the general reader, but oh, so much to
US! Important literary work was before
US and we had no time for the luxury of
grief. What cares the world for domes-
tic. sorrows, and why should we intrude
them here?
We have been so rushed with work,
and had so many important themes to
write of which have been compelled to
await a more convenient season, that
we shall now omit many things we
ought to tell you; but we shall do the
best we can to gather up the missing
links. When again in the shadow OF
our home, Well recall every important
theme that is now forgotten, and shall
have food for thought the winter
through.
That promised second journey to
Philadelphia was long in being made.
The work on the book fingered, and we
were compelled to check impatience and
wait. Finally, when the full time for
closing the Exposition had come, we
took hurried journey, and at nigntfall
were again the guest of good Miss
Thompson, with whom we spent busy
aud profitable week. Mr.. Dufur, whose
successful career at the Centennial de-
serves the compensation that a mig
gardly Legislature should be heartily
ashamed of having denied him, again
| obliged US by many favOrs. The regu-
lar exhibition was over, but thousands
still visited the grounds, where police
men stood guard over all the foreign de-
partments and pushed their noses and
fingers into every bundle and lunch bas.
ket, and finally capped the climax o.
caution by refusing to allow US to pas:
the doors with single copy of ''DaviC
and Anna," which a gentleman at the
far end of the great building had pur
chased, and which we were compelled
| to leave at the Commissioners room
where somebody stole it, and thereby
| protected the rights of the American
government from smuggIers.
Not having seen the Peoples Pape
regularly for long time, we can't re
member what has been written up, bu
guess we haven't riddled that "Woman'
Pavilion" yet. Plainly the work of
disfranchised and pauper class it look
and has looked all summer. AS com
pared to the great hall where the mel
displayed almost everything of utilit.
as though it were their own, although
two-thirds, at least, was the work O
women, every thinker was reminded 0
the mansion of the slave owner as com
pared to the hut of the sIave-the mos
pitiful part of the whole melanchol,
farce lying in the fact that few sno.bb,
women were perfectly satisfied to thu
celebrate their own serfdom withou
protest in order to get their names il
the papers, reminding every one tina
took time to think of the principles c
equality which that pavilion helpe
men to trample upon, of the snobbis
darkie in white gloves and livery VIII
had all the rights he wanted when b
was massa's footman and belonged t
him, soul and body, in his good clothe:
Oh, that God the gfftie gi'e us
To see Oursel' as ithers see us
" would from many blunder free US,
And foolish notion"
One dear old lady, blessings on be
memory, held alOft dropping banner o
the closing day-a revolutionary relic
and bowed her head and wept, the onl
sensible thing the women ofthat pavillo
have done this summer. The Tories {
the revolution are not one whit more dc
serving of execration and contempt tha
are the Tories of to-day, who inveig
against the principle which our father
fought for, that resistance to tyrann
is obedience to God"
But we have not time now to writ
further, and have little encouragement
to trust this to the mails, as you don
get half we do write. Hoping the miss
ing links of "Edna and John" hav
come to hand ere this, and praying tina
we may very soon be home again, W
bid adieu to New York and start on tn
westward way in the morning.
a. J. D.
New York, November %, 1876.
| P.S.-We don't often add a postscript
but it is necessary to state that the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association ha
changed our name, or, rather, resume