The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-21
AM HoUR WITH CORRESPONDENTS.

One OF the first OF the many letters
that claim attention this week halls
from Boston, Mass, and as we glance
eagerly along its pages, we behold the
welcome script of Lucy Stone, co-editor
Of the Womdn's Journal, one Of the
staunchest, bravest, truest beralds Of
freedom that ever rang the clarion notes
of woman's liberty along the lines of
mans rights Republic. Among other
good things in her letter, she says !:
ave want to make everybody see in
this Centennial year that the Woman
Sufragists are asking for the very same
thing that the old Revolutionary heroes
fought for, and that the political oppres-
sion of women by men of the United
States is just as wrong as what was
done to them by George III. hundred
years ago. We shall never have such
another chance, and we ought to i'm
prove this one." Further on, we copy,
at the risk of being considered just lit
tie conceited, as follows: "I always
look with interest through the columns
of your paper. Ny daughter says you
are the pluckiest woman she knows.
That you raised your own boys to print
your paper, which you not only edit but
write the story for, keep house, lecture,
and write a volume of poems besides.
I quite agree with her. 1 am always
glad of the ringing blows you strike for
freedom, which echo from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. May we both live till
the citizenship of woman is established,
as it surely will be. The work goes
bravely on" The red blood tingles in
our finger tips as we write the glad re-
sponse: "God bless you and yours,
dear friend, aud spare you yet many
years to illumine the earth with your
influence"
1--WE had just as well be killed for a
sheep as lamb" so while we are about
it, you will pardon US, good reader, for a
little more egotism.
A welcome letter is at hand from Mrs.
E. A. Corwin, of Nehalem, Oregon, and
it's odd enough that the two letters that
we first get our fingers upon this MORN
ing should come from the furthermost
verges of the Orient and Occident. We
quote one paragraph "Dear friend,
you will never know the good you are
doing, or the words of encouragement
you are imparting every week to your
many readers, as they unfold the crisp,
fresh pages of the New NORTHWEST
and peruse it's many messages of peace
on earth and good will to men and wom-
en-. Don't fail to give my kindly regards
to tye associate Although we have
never met face to face, feel that we
know each other in spirit" If you
only lived in Boston, or some other sub
urb of Portland, as our friend Lucy
Stone does, we might meet you almost
any day. AS it is, we have little hope
of an early meeting. Letters and news
papers eau travel, if we can't, and that's
comfort.
A dear friend from Halsey, Mrs. NJ j.
Penland, wants to know when we can
visit that pleasant railway station and
give a course of lectures. Another let
ter from Springfield, one from Eugene,
two from Olympia, one from Freeport,
one from McMinnville, one from Seattle,
and we're afraid to say how many more,
contain the same question. Wish we
could tell you, friends; we're like hen
on a hot griddle, we're so busy with
plans and efforts and purposes.
Hester A. Benedict writes US a fare
well note from Knappton, saying that
she is henceforth to reside in San Fran
cisco, where her many friends may ad-
dress her for the present, care of OUer-
land Monthly.
Mrs. w. H. Conyers, of Columbia
City, a member of the Centennial Exec
utive Committee for Columbia county,
and the one lady member who has ex-
erted herself to place the natural beau
ties of Oregon before the exposition,
writes US concerning a box of Centen-
nial goods, in manner that proves her
to the manor of liberty born, if she is
considered political nonentity by mas
culine Lawmakers.
A valued worker in the vineyard OF
liberty writes US privately from Albany,
saying some things that are too good to
be lost, as they prove the truth of what
we have so often asserted concerning the
salutary effect of human rights upon
the sons Of strong-minded mothers.
Among many other good things, she
says, "I was not looking for anything
on Christmas; but 1 got a nice sewing
basket stand, S.; cake basket, $40; gold
watch chain, SO; fine money-pocket
and card case, aud very nice flower
stand with three pots for planting flow.
ers. They were all gifts from my two
Oldest boys. When boys thus remem.
Der their mother, I think there is ground
for hope that they will make good mel
scme day." There! reader, We'll ven
ture a positive declaration that nC
two sons of any mother who "has al
the rights she wants" can be found il
all Oregon who will prove themselves
thus thoughtful. What husbands thos,
boys will make But the hour will
correspondents must close for this week
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