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Speech of Sara ]. Spencer.

Notwithstanding the rush of matter
this week, we cannot forbear giving the
admirable address of this lady before the
Cincinnati Convention. 1t is distin-
guished not more for its point and logic
than for it's truth and brevity. Let
every one read it:
Citizens In 1872 the Republican
party declared that it had emancipated
1000, 600 human beings, and established
universal suffrage. Where were the
lO,OO0,0O0 of women citizens of this Re-
public? When will you make this
high-sounding declaration true? The
second plank says, ave have secured
liberty and equality to ALL" Again,
where were the women of the United
States? A little further on, in plank
twelve, you say, HHhe Republican
party is mindful of its obligations to the
loyal women of America for their noble
devotion to the cause of freedom. Their
admission to wider fields of usefulness
Is viewed with satisfaction, and the
honest demand of any class of citizens
for additional rights should be treated
with respectful consideration"
The Republican party cannot afford
to recede from its ground taken four
years ago, and it cannot afford to stand
still, for to be still is to die. Nothing
that lives is still. Motion is a law of
life. To be the party that leads, you
must move forward. We now ask you
for a plank that will place that mighty
emblem of power, the ballot, into the
hands of ten millions of American citi-
zens, the wives and daughters of this
fair Republic. We asked General Lo-
gan, of Illinois, who was one of nineteen
Senators who voted for Woman Suf-
frage in the United States Senate in
1874, how he could speak half an hour
yesterday before this Convention of men
by men, for men, where no wOman's
voice could be heard, without once nam
ing the disfranchised, unrepresented
women of this land; he said he entirely
forgot it; then we say how will it be
with General Logan if the 100000 of
women citizens of the United States
with the ballot in their hands forget
him? We asked Fred. Douglass how
he, so lately made citizen, invested
with all the rights of a citizen, could
speak yesterday on the continued disa-
bilities of his race and not say one word
for the women of the land, when to
woman, to Harriet Beecher Stowe, he
and his race owed more for the emanci-
patton of his race than to any man, or
any body of men, or any political party
in the land. He said: II would have
spoken for you had thought of it," So
you see how men represent US. Unless
we represent ourselves we have no re-
dress for any wrong, no voice even to
ask for any right. We ask you to open
this new century with a declaration
that will place the Republic higher
on the scroll of fame than all its deeds
of the past; that will give new force and
meaning TO all your former pledges;
that will win to your side as CO. workers
the wives, mothers, and daughters of
this fair Republic.
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ONCE AGAIN.

Owing to the extreme heat of the
weather, and other causes, Mrs. Duni-
way has not been able to make her way
eastward as fast as she had hoped to do.
In letter written at Boise City, under
date of the Sd inst, she says: "I shall
leave here barely in time to reach Phil
adelphia by the Goth. MyarrangemeDts
at present are as follows: On Wednes-
day, the 5th, will go over to Idaho
City and Plscerville. Will return to
this city by the 18th and start for PhiIa-
delphia direct on the 18th. Am sorry I
could not get on faster, but it takes so
long to raise sufficient funds for the
trip in such hot weather. I shall jour-
ney as rapidly as possible, and hope to
be home in SIX weeks"
Friends will see by this short extract
from a letter to "dear ones at home,"
that the journey which Mrs. Duniway
is now making across the continent is
not an excursion undertaken for the
sake of sightseeing or personal pleas
ure or profit, but slow and toilsome
trip, hedged about on every hand by
fatigue and financial disability-and
seeing this, will, we hope, make each
such effort as lies in their power to aid
the journal she has left in their care,
while she, regardless of personal COM
fort, is making so energetic an effort to
be heard for them at the great national
jubilee. Outside of regular subscrip-
tions to the paper, there has been re-
ceived as yet but $40 toward defraying
the expenses of the trip by contribution.
This we are assured might easily have
been multiplied by p or so, giving a
most substantial and gratifying result,
had persons only have considered, as
they should have done, that their dollar
was just the one needed to make up the
amount. We ask in this connection to
remind all that the day for action in this
matter has not yet passed. We shall
keep a list of the names of those so
contributing, and shall probably publish
the same when Mrs. Duniway returns.
We hope in this case to have list that
will save us from writing a column or
so of editorial. Will you see to it,
friends?
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

l. E. P, Astoria: Thanks for story
sent. AS soon as we have space will
give it place.
A. F. H, Woodburn: Note received
and order attended to. Shall be pleased
to attend to the matter mentioned at
any time.
Mrs. S. A. K, Philomath: Sent again
the numbers missed. Cannot under
stand the cause of the non-arrival of
their predecessors.
Miss V. NJ. O., McMinnville Glad to
hear from you, and hope your efforts in
''stirring up the lukewarm" will meet
with the success they merit.
Miss E. Nc, Walla Walla: Scarcely
understand what you mean by "your
part of the paper" Please lie more ex-
plicit, and we will try to follow orders.
Mrs. E. A. c., NehaIem: Address
changed as ordered. Will be pleased to
accept your kind invitation if the heat
of the 'dog days" drives US to CIatsop
Beach.
Mrs. J. A. J., Salem: We are under
many obligations for interest displayed,
and hope success will crown your eff
forts. Will write you privately in a
few days.
F. NJ. W., Albany: We are not of
those who believe in the infallibility of
popes and preachers, hence are ready
not only to perceive but to expose the
shams which they sometimes attempt
to palm off on the credulous for holiness.
If you cannot stand fire, we are sorry,
but not sorry enough to spike our guns
for your sake.
Mrs. E. E. s., Willoughby: The pol
onaise is worn much the same as two
years ago, with difference in the trim
mings aud loopings. Braids for the
hair are no longer worn in front, but
are still pressed into service in arrang-
ing the back hair by those to whom ma
ture has not been prodigal in the be-
stowal of an abundant supply of their
own. Don't stop with calling the little
one "Madge." Make it "Madge Morri-
son." and may heaven grant the little
namesake of the plucky heroine a
smooth pathway through life, or strength
of mind and body to overcome the OBJ
stacles of rugged one.
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SOCIAL TYRANNY.

1t is none the less true because la
mentable that the most vital questions
affecting human veal and effecting hu-
man woe to-day are the social problems
of which the bravest scarcely dare to
speak even in terms of condemnation,
lest mock modesty raise her warning
finger and pointing to slander, whis-
pers-"bewarew w The bravest dare not
speak of the ulcers that tester and spread
and grow constantly, taking as it
would seem each year a deeper and
more deadly hold upon the inner life of
society, now smouldering in conceal
ment, again giving unmistakable evil
dence of its existence as scandal broods
darkly over a woman's life for a while,
then sends her out to battle without
character or friends, for subsistence,
changing now its mocking, blighting
breath to pleasantly as the one who was
her companion in sin passes by.
Persons habitually remain silent even
in opposition to their private convic-
tons OF duty upon question pertaining
to these social wounds, or, less conscien-
tiOus, perhaps join in the hue and cry
which Mrs. Grundy is sure to raise
against the more venturesome who rec
ognize the fact that to heal an ugly
wound it is sometimes necessary to
probe it. The lessons of unhappiness,
of disgrace, of heartache must be thrown
aside and not rehearsed as warming to
the unwary whose feet may at any mo-
ment become entangled in the hidden
meshes of deceit that everywhere en-
compass them. Slaves to social tyr
amy, we place our hands over our
mouths and our mouths in the dust and
refuse to speak of that which pertains
to the most vital interests of humanity.
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THOUGHTS THAT WILL ARISE.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST
long so much to be possessed with a
ready pen and az eloquent tongue, so
that might be able to do something in
behalf of my sex. But being mindful
of the fact that the feeblest effort is not
without its effect, will dc what I can.
Whenever I think of the injustice
that is done women on account Of the
odiOus property laws, my indignation
knows no bounds. The idea of admin
istering on an estate belonging equally
to man and his wife when the man
dies, would be ridiculous if it were not
so much worse. When u man marries
he agrees to support the woman who
not she by right entitled to the property
accumulated for support? Granting
that the property was all brought into
the matrimonial firm by the man, when
he is dead is not his family the best en-
titled to that property? And who has
the welfare of the family most at heart?
Surely the mother of his children. And
of course when the husband and recog-
nized head is removed by death, she
then becomes the head, and should so
be acknowledged. And this without
being subjected to the humiliation of
having her property appraised and sold
and guardian appointed for her chill
dren. 1t is frequently argued that it
makes no difference about the sale of
the property, for the woman can herself
bid it in, and it would be all the same.
Let's see If it would, in all cases. Sup
pose wealthy young lady marries an
impecuniOus man, who is deeply in
volved in debt. At his death her prop
erty, that he had never earned penny
of, would have to go to satisfy those
debts that she had had nothing to do in
contracting. Or, again, he may die in
few days even after marriage, leaving
no children, but two or Jthree brothers
as heirs. Would not the young
wife and her relatives be justly very in
dignant when these heirs should pre-
sent themselves for their share of the
property, which the law allows them {?
1t is disgrace to the legislative body
of Oregon that they allow such laws to
cucumber our statute. We are away
behind our sister State in that respect.
1 am well aware that these facts are
stated in a very faulty manner, but if
one person, even, is thereby enabled to
see some of the injustice done woman 1
shall be well repaid for the effort this
writing has cost me.
Yours in earnest,
E. Z. S.
Wasco county, July 5, 1876.
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NIL DESPERANDUM,

While it is a noticeable fact that
usually when the question of Woman
Suffrage is forced upon the attention of
Legislators, the Republicans vote for
and the Democrats against it, yet the
latter are not always found pushing
backward the car of progress. Witness
the fact that it was Democratic legis-
lature that gave to the women of New
York the right to their own earnings
and their own property, while Demo-
cratic legislature conferred the right to
vote on the women of Wyoming.
In consideration of these encouraging
precedents, we beg our friends not to
falter nor lose their confidence in the
result because the legislature soon to
convene in our State will be composed
largely of Democrats. True, there are
some members of the Senate who have
long since forfeited all decent respect for
the opinions of mankind and have no
self-respeet. But they are greatly in
the minority, and though they may
give vent to growls and slurs, they will
influence no one, have but one vote
apiece, and there are but few of them.
We learn that the petitions for Wom-
an Suffrage that will go up to our State
Capital this year are being numerously
signed in many localities. We call the
attention of our readers to the "appeal,"
published elsewhere, of Mrs. Loughary,
the active and efficient President of the
State Association.
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Hear Wallace R. Struble, expert
enced philanthropist that be is, moral
ize from the depths of wisdom that age,
experience, and observation brings, con-
corning the "sad need of reform among
the members of the gentIer sex:~
1t seems to be the highest aim of the major.
ity Of our American girls TO command the at
tention OF every man whom they meet. II
they can only f1irt with the opposite sex, their
chief desires are gratified. Alas hat won-
an should have so far missed her a. sphere
There is a sad need of reform among l. . mem.
bers OF the gentler sex, and better 1t will be fo1
humanity when that reform has been con.
summated.
In view of the fact that the attention
of not more than every tenth "man
whom they meet" is either creditable OF
desirable, we would gently remind this
youthful sage lest he sacrifice truth upon
the altar of fatherly concern. If he will
turn his plying optics toward members
Of his own sex, he may perhaps be di-
verted from melancholy reflections con-
cerning the ''sad need of reform" in the
other.
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FRIENDLY GREETING. I"

A friend in Tacoma responds to the
call for one dollar contributions toward
defraying the expenses of the Centen-
nial trip of the proprietor of this journal
and writes. "Every week I find some en-
couragementf for the good cause of human
rights, of which have been an ardent,
though not g conspicuous advocate, for
% years. 1 thought could not let the
commencement day of the new century
pass without sending to you kindly
greeting. I sincerely hope that the
coming century may yet be young in
years when 1 shall have the proud
pleasure of seeing my lady friends step
lightly and confidently to the ballot
box and deposit therein the symbol of
liberty. You say, and truly, that it
takes brave woman to live (aye,
and brave men, too, sometimes) when
assailed by fearful series of untoward
circumstances yet we hope to live to
see the time when there will not be
such a fearful preponderance of un-
toward circumstances against a woman
because she is a woman, but that every
person will be looked upon and judged
according to their merits and abilities
regardless of sex"
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AN APPEAL,

To the Friends Of Wonaan's Enfran-
cIisenent -
Permit me to urge you to begin at
once the circulation of petitions for sig
natures to present to the coming Legis-
lature. Vice-Presidents of the o. S. w.
S. A., presidents and secretaries of
county organizations, clubs, friends,
everybody concerned, begin the work at
once. Let us use we'll the powers of in
fuence, and place before that honorable
body petition numerously signed by
the very best men and women of the
State. Petitions, when filed, should be
sent TO the Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. J. Devore Johnson, Oregon City.
II. A. LoUGHARY,
Pres't o. s. w. S. A.
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From a sketch of the life of Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, in an Eastern exchange,
we take the following: "His opportu-
nifty at the bar came at last. He did
not seek it. A poor, friendless, half
idiotic girl was on trial for the murder
of her child. She had no money to en-
ploy counsel. Hayes, with the innate
chivalry which is one of his noblest
characteristics, and which has made
him, in after life, Woman Suffragist,
espoused her cause and secured her ac-
quittal. Next day he had recognized
standing in the profession. 1t is an in
teresting fact that, in 1888, Chief Justice
Chase won his first professional fame,
in Cincinnati, as the champion of a
fugitive slave. Fifteen years later Gov
ernor Hayes won his first forensic tri-
umph, in that same courthouse, as the
champion of a wronged and outraged
woman"
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THE FOURTH AT M'M1NNVILLB.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
The long-looked-for Centennial is
past, and how glad were we that not
cloud appeared in the blue heavens to
obscure the suns bright rays from its
rising to setting, and as it shed its re-
splendent beauty and brightness upon
the departing moments of such day as
never before dawned upon this conti-
nent, the moon, illumined with her
pale flood of light, appeared in the
cloudless sky, to add beauty and grand
eur to the days last moments. And
now, in the natal morn of another year
of American independence, I sit and
scribble concerning the Fourth at
McMinnville. 1 know your columns
will swell to bigness with the events of
the Centennial week in Portland, yet
our meeting must go on record for fu-
ture reference.
By ten o'clock about three hundred
persons had assembled in one of the cool
green groves bordering upon the town.
Sweet strains of music broke the morn
ing stiffness as we approached place
so befitting the occasion. This was fol-
lowed by prayer from the chaplain, af-
ter which came the reading of the
Declaration of Independence by w. ].
Loughary, of Amity. This was followed
by short grafton by one of McMinn-
ville's patriotic sons.
An hour was now spent in partaking
of refreshments, visiting and resting,
when We were again called to the finely
decorated stand, to be entertained
by the pupils of Miss V. NJ. Olds' school.
The exercises were selected with due
appropriateness to the occasion, and
performed with such efficiency as to
give great credit to both pupils and
teacher, proving that the greatest
amount of labor to educate our race
must be performed by the patient toll
ing of woman.
| The next order of exercises was the
reading of the woman's Declaration of
Independence, by Miss V. NJ. Olds, fol-
lowed by the reading of the "Protest"
by Mrs. NJ. E. Russ, of McMinnville, af
ter which your humble servant was
called to the stand to deliver.the protest
address. 1 was pleased to hold for
nearly an hour one of the most quiet,
attentive audiences ever addressed in
the open air, Notwithstanding the
threats of the "hoodlum" element to
"break up that woman's celebration"
The days exercises closed harmoni-
ously with short, pointed, impromptu
speeches, resolutions, etc., with a very
large rising vote of endorsement of the
protest and speech. And further, a re-
quest for the publication of the latter,
which opened the way for an earnest
appeal for the NEW NORTHWEST, all of
which we hope will be as "bread cast
upon the waters"
H. A. LOUGHARY.
Amity, July 5, 1876.
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THAT PLANK,

The WOnld1'S Journal, in a synopsis
of the proceedings in relation to Woman
Suffrage before the Cincinnati Conven-
tion, regards the platform there pre-
sented as far in advance of that of 1872
OF the address of Mrs. Sara J. Spencer
before the Convention at its second ses-
sion it is remarked that while she could
be heard only by a comparative few, as
indeed few men or women could have
been, yet the tall, graceful woman in
dark robes addressing that immense
audience of men for a few moments was
in itself a striking picture, and one
which, together with the brevity of her
speech, could not fail to create a pro-
found respect for the cause championed.
Among our friends in the Convention
who labored earnestly to secure a reeog-
milton of our rights were Messrs. Speed,
of Kentucky, Chamberlain, of South
Carolina, Biglow, of Vermont, and
members from Rhode Island, New
Hampshire, Michigan, Illinois, and Ne
vada. While not regarding the twelfth
resolution as satisfactory and explicit as
could be desired, the journal above
referred to regards it as an important
indication of progress. OF the candidate
presented by the Convention it says:
Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes, the nominee OF
the Convention, has been for years a sincere
friend of Woman Suffrage. He is a man OF
firm convictions, pure character, and absolute
integrity-in every respect worthy of the sup
port Of Woman Suffrage Republicans.
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struble's long-promised WeBoOt Mag

Struble's long-promised We6foot Mag
azine is upon our table. 1t is neatly
gotten up, and contains 80 pages of lit
erary matter of interest to the general
reader. Poems by Mrs. Victor, Mrs.
Belle w. Cooke, o. G. Applegate, and
the editor grace the initial number. It
is embeIlished by portrait of Daniel
Clark, Master of the Oregon State
Grange, and contains also biograph-
ical sketch of that gentleman. The en-
ergy and perseverance displayed by its
proprietor entitle it to success.
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All night long we journeyed, after
crossing the swamp. AS we were SOL
itary assenger-something very unus-
ual-we made bed of the cushions and,
curled up like a mammoth dormouse,
tried to sleep, and succeeded, despite
bumps and bruises, in reaching dream
land once in while. But, how lonely
we were-away out on the wide desert,
the driver on the box outside as defer
entially reticent as though dumb from
babyhood. Often there were no habita-
tions within many leagues, and nothing
between US and eternity but the great
rumbling coach and the flooded though
dusty plain. This last expression may
seem paradoxical, but it is literally true.
The floods run in channels and the dust
upon ridges. One moment you are in
water, and the next you cannot breathe
for dust.
Toward morning the scene changes.
Well-made farms abound upon either
hand. Long rows of cultivated trees
make graceful obeisance to you in the
star-lit breezes. Cattle sleep by the
roadside and lights gleam in many win
dOws. At four o'clock we reach Boise
City and the Overland Hotel, where a
night watch shows US to cozy room,
and we sink upon downy bed in our
travel-soiled garments, and are soon in
a dreamless sleep, from which we wake
at eight, when bath and breakfast i'm
bue us with sufficient vim to scribble
this letter. Particulars from Boise next
week. A. J. D.
June 2S, 1876.
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The Vancouver Independent says:
"Provide intelligent voters-men land
women too, under the better regime),
who have public spirit, and an earnest
desire to see truth and justice prevail,
and what is sometimes called the
filthy pool of politics will become the
crystal fountain of freedom, from which
shall spring national honor and pros
perity."
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A young lady of very sentimental
turn of mind worked on delicately
tinted cardboard the motto, 'T need thee
every hour" and presented it to her
Romeo, who let her romance down and
out by replying, after he had finished
spelling out the words: "I can't help it;
it takes me two hours to feed the pigs
and do the milking, and business has
got to he attended to-"
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We are requested to state that grove
meeting will be held by Spiritualists on
the picnic grounds at Gervais, COM
mencing July 9th and continuing three
or more days. Good speakers will be in
attendance, and all are cordially invited,
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NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that it is a
great tax upon us 10 pay express charges upon
small sums. and they will confer great favor
by remitting to US through money orders or
registered letters.