The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-24
LETTER PROM OONNBOTIOUT,

70 THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
In going over to Hartford yesterday,
1 found your letter at the post Office,
and we were glad indeed to hear from
you. We hear from you often, and in
a variety of ways, but to hear from you
by your own hand is worth much more.
We sent the Bibles you ordered to the
south post office, which is kept by
worthy lady of our acquaintance, and
to our knowledge not one of the Bibles
mailed by her has yet failed of its desti
nation. They have been sent all over
the country, and still I do not recollect
that two copies have been sent to one
country town, with the exception of
Albany, in your own State. We sell
them at the house for 81 so, and we re-
ceive 81 so when sent by mail, as the
postage is 80 cents.
We are glad the governor of your
State has the common sense to see the
right and the moral courage to acknowl-
edge it. Zone of the Bibles ordered was
for the governor. We had mentioned
him in our letter as a friend to the
cause.-ED.l The publishers sell the
Bibles at 50 each at the office.
We are still living in fear of that un-
feeling tax collector of whom some ac-
counts were given in our pamphlet we
sent you last March. He gave out word
in the spring that he should come into the
house this time, and levy on the furniture
to pay the taxes. If he does, it will make
no little trouble, for the law obliges him
to store away the articles thus levied
upon for twenty-one days. We do not
believe there is house along the street
that would take it under cover, and he
would be obliged to take it three miles
to his own house, and then, at the end
of the time, he must bring it back two
and quarter miles to the sign post, to
sell it.
Our lawyer tells US that if we will
give him a receipt for the goods, he
thus aid the iniquity of taxation with
out representation" 1t will cost US a
third more to resist the taxation than
to look up the money and pay it
without giving the officers trouble.
But should not women give up their
property for the same principle for
which their forefathers gave up their
lives? Never did our ancestors have
such cause to complain of the burdens
of a government in which they were
denied voice as do the tax-paying,
non-voting women of to-day.
Our friends say, "What good will
your resistance do, as the voting power
is sure to defeat you in the end ?" OuI
answer is that the agitation created by
our resistance brings out the injustice
before the people. We are advised tc
pay under protest, but what do our town
authorities care for the protest, wher
they so easily get the money?
We got majority in our favor in the
lower house of our legislature last win,
ter, and the Suffrage Committee wa'
unanimously in our favor, but the bill
was defeated in the Senate. Some o
the committee that we have since me-
tell US to persevere, and we shall Ger
tainly succeed.
L shall be obliged to stop before ge
half through, as l have to watch tht
stage when it goes by to take my letter.
to the post Office, which is a mile and {
quarter from US.
My sister is not well this morning
but joins me in wishing you every sue
cess in the good cause which ought t.
interest every woman until we are al
equal before the law.
Yours sincerely,
JULIA E. SMITH.
P. SIT was not the President @
Harvard University, as stated in you
paper, that indorsed my translation c
the Bible, but the Professor of Hebrew
in that institution, who has taught
there for seven years, and came on pur
pose to our house to talk to me about il
b"N hO'Cl OOhNSISOu WIN q SChOlS'
who was so familiar with the language
He will read text from my Bible, an
repeat it right off in Hebrew. H
would exclaim, "Good good r' whe
he would read difficult texts in Job an
Isaiah, and seemed very much SUI
prised that could render them so col
rectly without going to some learne
man about it. He indorsed the lenses