The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-09-12
MISS ANTHONY'S REPLY.
ROCHESTER,. X. y, Aug. 9,


Ny oder time Friend Lucy Stone:
To your ie ter Of the 7Ih inst, asking me If
| was tightly reported as saying ''the Suifra-
gist> " III go for any party OF amy name that
Will give Us a suffrage plank" l answer
Yes" save that | us 81 the proEOul ~ lu-
stead OF "Ihe SufiizgistSr
spoke for myself, alone, becaus, I know
so many of our women are so much more in
l-nselS Republican or Democrat, hardin on
ey or green bacll, free trade OF tariff, prohib-
itio or license, than they are equal rights
for all, - hat Ihry viii now, As in the past
hold Tie quest lion OF woman's e.ItTincriSe
ment in allegiance, while they give TIL ir
money and their best energies 10 secure the
success Of one or the other Of the cOn;endiu .
parties, though IL wholly ignores their Just
calm 10 voice in the government.
1t is 800 That have no opinions or prefer
eEceS on the many grave questions that dis
tract and divide the p rites but il is that in
my jud .ment, "the ght Of seli-government
fer O.e half The people" is of TAR more vital
consequence TO the nation than any of all
other questions put tozether.
Aud IiIis has been my position ever since
the abolition OF slavery, b. which toe black
race was lifted from chaJtc lism 10 CitiZen-
snip, and invested with civil rights equal
with the best cultured, tax-paying white wo-
men of the county. Have you forgot en- the
cry "fhis is the RegTO's hour that came back
10 us in 1876, when We urged the abOlIiIoniSts
TO max G common cause Wi II Us, and demand
suffrage .Su right for all United States ciii-
Zens, instead OF asking IT. as on eTped ent for
anot Ier class Of men? 10 you not remem-
Der, too how the taunt 'falSe 10 The negro
was flung back into the face Of every one of
us who insisted that ii was "humanity's
hour" and that To talk OF "freedom without
the ballot" was no less ..rnockeiy" 20 wo-
man, than to the negro"
Surely, you cann.t have forgotten that IL
was on this very point-of having but one ar
ticle in our political creed, woman, and her
diSfranc hi~ed,n and our welcoming the aid of
every person and every party that subscribed
to that article, Democrat though he. or il
might be-that.y on yourself, ini!sGs, retus d to
a. ,..uf Ir.Tr
Association Elizabeth Cady stanton, presi
dent, called the Cleveland Convention, or
gauized the american Woman Suffrage As
sociation," as against the National" and
thereby divided our woman suffrage ranks
from ocean to ocean,
And IL, in those most trying reconstruction
years, could not subordinate the fuudamen-
tai principle of "EQUA RIGHTS FOR ALL" To
the Republican party necessity for NEGRO
Suffrage,r-that Is, if / would not then,
in that fearful national emergency, sacri-
fice athe greater TO the less" surely cam
not and will not 10 day, hold any of the
far less important party questions. paramount
to that most sacred principle OF our Repub lie.
As you and ! and all women are political
slaves, IL i'll becomes US to NEEDLE with the
weightier discussions of our sovereign mas
ters- II will be quite time enough for us,
with self-Iespect, 10 declare ourselves FOR OF
against this party or that. upon the intTins C
merit OF its policy, when they shall recognize
US their political equals. duly register our
Names and respectfully count our opinions
at the ballot box, as a constitutional right
not a high crime. punishable with sou fine-
. six months imp isonment. or both, at the
discret, on Of THE court"
Ifall "thelSuffragists"i in all the states could
but see We 10 eye on this point, and stand
shoulder to shoulder against any and every
party and politician not fully and uuequivy-
calIy committed 10 Equal Rights for Wom-
AN, I'VE should st once, become "a balance of
power that could not 'ail TO compel the party
OF highest intelligence to proclaim Woman
Suffrage the chief plank Gifts platform. I'm
union there is strength"
And until that good day comes, shall con-
nue. To invoke the par y IN power, and each
one struggling 10 get into power, be IL Repub.
lican, Democratic, GreeHback OF ProhIbi-
ton, 10 pledge itself TO the emancipation OF
our enslaved half of the people and'in turn,
/ shall promise TO do all that "A subject" can
do, for the success of the party that thus de.
clares its purpose ito undo The heavy bar
dens and let the oppressed go free."
To illustrate when. six or seven years ago,
the prohibitonists and v orkingmen oil Mas
sachusetts, eYch put a Woman Suffrage plank
in its platform, and each nominated for gov
ernor, wendal' Phillipps-Our lifelong friend
and advocate-'.the Suffragists" of that state,
putting aside all party allegiance, republican
and democratic alike, should have inscribed
on their banners, in letters of gold, the name
of ~ENDELL PHILLIPS; and branded "trsi-
TO. " on the for, heai of every one Of their
number Who spoke or voted for any other
than Wendell Pr illips for governor.
Yours as ever,
SUSAN Il. ANTHONY.