The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-24


every pulsation Of his heart for freedom.
and inspired the glowing elOouenee that
maintained him through the century.
With you, we have Just gone through
the agony and death, the resurrection
and triumph, Of another revolution. do
ing all In our power to mitigate its mis-
cries and gid its glories; and now, think
you, alter education such as this, we
nave no power 70 weigh your arguments;
tnaJ no sentiments Of patriotism can
ever kindle us 20 action; that we shall
still remain silent witnesses while you
crown all types and shades Of manhood
with those rights Of citizenship denied
to the most refined and educated classes
oi American womanhoOd No, no. we
feel the insult of fdisfranchisement more
keenly day by day as we find ourselves
mans equal in the world OF thought.
When the spirit of freedom is abroad
everywhere, in the old world aud the
new; when men are coming up from
the coal-mines Of Cornwall, from the
manufactures Of Birmingham and Man
chester, demanding new privileges
when stern, frigid Russia sets 1900, 900
serfs free in a single day; when 100000
! slaves on American soil are rejoicing in
/ the proclamation Of emancipation, and
have the ballot, that scepter of power,
unasked for, placed in their hands, think
not the daughters Of Jefferson, Hancock,
and Adams will forever linger around
I the camp-fires Of an old civilization, in
/ different TO the grand experiment OF
I sell-gOvernment 10 is our high privilege
as a people 10 make, insensible to the
( dignity, power, aud responsibility that
belong TO every citizen of a republic.
/ No no; woman, too, would now join
the grand army Of progress and help to
usher in a purer and better civiliza-
ton, i'm which the sons and daughters
Of earth shall at last stand equal before
the law.
Mrs. Stanton's remarks were here
concluded, when Elizabeth BOynton
Harbert a delegate from Illinois, said:
Gentlemen Of the COBlHliUec:-Ihe
abstract right 20 representation by
/ taX-paXing citizens Of the United States
Of America has been so frequently, so
ably, so eloquently, and so logically
proved by the wisest statesmen OF the
/ American Senate that further argument
upon that point is useless. Nay, more,
we need not remind you Of the never
/ tO-be-forgotteR arguments of Stephens,
/ Sumner, Wilson, and Morton, while you
are constantly confronted with the re-
buking CLEANS Of the bloOd-red sentence,
scared into the very keystone Of that
constitution you have sworn 10 support,
taxation without representation is tyr
amy"
Pausing not to argue this accepted
point as true when the hard-earned
tax-mouey is paid into the United
States Treasury by the delicate hands o
a protesting daughter Of the revolution,
airy heroes; as when the patriot father
themselves tossed the tax-tasting tea il
the harbor-and, by the way, wasn't Il
rather ungallant for them 10 seize WON
ans favorite beverage? You know
4, Upon looking around. naught could be foun,
z That the fathers could spare,
. 50 they turned % the mothers, with Adam
old plea,
: To, The woman thou gavest, overheard viii
her tea
we pass to the question OF expediency
We recognize your duty as men in
, trusted with the control and guidanc
. of the government to carefully weigl
every phase OF the momentous-pOssi
, bly, vital-question. Has the time ar
/ rived when it will be safe and expedien
I 10 make a practical application Of thes
great principles Of our government I
- one-half of the governed, One-half {
The favorite argument Of the oppOsi
Z ton has been that women are repre-
/, sented by men, hence have no cause Z
complaint. Any careful student of tn
progress Of liberty must admit that ia
only possible method for securing Jus
, tice to the represented is for their repre-
sentatives to be made entirely and el
fectually responsible to their cOnstitU
4 ents, and promptly removable by then
/. We are only secure in delegatiug powe
4 when we can dictate its use, limit tn
: same, or revoke it.
How many of your honorable com
mittee would vote TO make the Pres
: dency an Office for life, said Office t
, descend to the heirs, in a male lin
! forever, with no reserved power Of i'm
! peachment? Yet you would be NOR
fairly represented than are America
: women, since they have never electe
their representatives. So far as wOme
are concerned, you are self-eonstitute
rulers.
CONTINUED next week.