The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-01

petitions as they would any other, with
dignity and without comment; but the
majority seemed intensely conscious of
holding something unntterably funny
In their hands. They appeared to con-
slider IL huge joke. The entire Senate
presented the appearance of a laughing
school practicing side-splitting and ear
extended grins. Mr.. Wadleigh leaned .
back In his chair and shook with laugh
ter, after pOrtraying to his next neigh /
Dor, Pinkney Whyte, of Maryland, the |
apparition Of Pinkney's landlady de- /
scending upon the polls like a wolf on |
the fold, to annihilate Pinkney's cleo |
tion-an avenging landlady, OF terrible
repute for executive temper, who, il is
declared, imprisoned Pinkney in his
own parlor, and barricaded another de-
/ scendant of signer of the Declaration
Of Independence, Hester Clymer, till,
to save him from starvation, food was
lifted to him from the street, on poles.
The heir of the Pinkneys leaned back
in his Senatorial chair and quaked at
this vision Of the coming woman, while
Wadleigh laughed and laughed at the
mental havoc he had created. Oglesby,
first warrior of Illinois, spoke with such
endearing gallantTy of his "dear constit-
uents," whom he did all his wit could
Senate laughed, aud even Roscoe COnk-
ling, who never condescends 10 sneer at
a woman in public, turned and listened
and smiled his most sardonic smile.
Then Thurman blew his lOndest regula-
tion blast-sure pOrteut Of approaching
battle-and rose and moved that the pc
titions be referred to the committee on
public lands, of which Oglesby is chair
man. At this Observation-Disclosures to
be equally humorous and cOntemptuOus
the whole Senate laughed aloud
There was one Senator, man enough
and gentleman enough to lift the petit
tiOn from this insulting proposition. 1t
was Senator Sargent, of California, the
husband Of the woman who, though a
Senator's wife, is brave enough to be
the treasurer OF the Woman's National
Suffrage Association. He turned TO Mr..
Thurman and demanded for the petition
of more than ten thousand women, at
least the courtesy that would be given
TO any other petition. Whereupon
= Thurman, with a fiippancy of which
! would not have believed him capable,
= if had not seen il, blew his nose anew,
} and declared that he "only wished the
petitions referred to the committee on
J public lands that the women might
have two strings 70 their bow !" Then
the craven Senate declared "the mo.
. tion," which was only an insult, car.
: ried. Let it be recorded of the Senate
{ of the United States of the FOrty-Fifth
} Congress, that the one petition which il
E received as prepOsterous joke, anC
J treated with utter contempt and outrage
j was the petition Of tens of thousands o.
I the mothers, daughters, and wives o.
, the land; that the one petition which
NgN. 4 D.
: indifference was the petition against
: intemperance-the petition that SEEK
i to tighten the heavy load of degrade
e tion, misery, and murder that lies upOI
a the land and most heavily upon th,
; hearts, the lives, the homes Of women
o In its uumincing utterance, the Cdpi
% tai Of Sunday was perfectly correc
% when il said: 1.-THE ladies managing tn
D, business managed it badly. If thel
~ had employed the female lobby or sen
$ in delegation OF pretty Treasury clerks
So the venerable sOlons would have soft
te ened, and thrown open their doors a
n readily as their hearts" II seems al
ungracious thing to say, but it is tn
E. truth. The woman who wins her wa
le with the majority of these men is no
at the plain, earnest-eyed woman, with
AZ small knob of native hair at the back @
70 her head. It is the siren Of the CALLER
e and the ante-room, who sends in be
~ card and her invitation to the Senate
at at his desk. She never talks of ''rights.
m She cares for no "cause" but her owl
AZ cause of ease and pelf She shakes be
D, tresses, changed" and usually blonde
81 she lifts her allnring eyes, and min
l. times out Of ten makes him do as sh
4 listeth.
=, No wonder, when the earnest appea
n Of honest women reaches his hands, b.
II has neither response, honesty, honor, no
n justice to give it. The Gr0phic's Pelel
e Albright was quite right when h
wrote:
" " As long as men are bosses,
Il There is reason TO declare,
lt WOmen's work viii be a problem
Suu OF lips and eyes and hair
We can wait-as the stars wait In thei
n spheres; as God waits.
e One hundred years from now, If
q may come back from some distan
In world to this little earth, / shall no
l. find upon 10 one son Of woman willinl
- To believe that but one cycle back ther
4 lived a man unwilling that his siste
n should have an equal chance with him
= self; a man who, because he was a man
q offered indignity, tyranny, injustice il
1f the guise of protection" TO one daugh
IS ter or mOLner OF the race.
,e Has woman nothing to do with thi
,r sure result? Everything. Man to-da,
h is what a long line of weak, ingloriou
le women have made him. Remembe
" that, thou woman, in the humbles
4. home. You are the mother of a son
ie you lay your hand upon the dome @
- thought TO shape the mind OF the bes
"a man you know. II will be your faul
j. if that man lives TO sneer at the Sc.
rs that gave him his mother.
v. 20 Queen awake 10 thy renown,
% Require what Ills mans wealth % give,
. And comprehend and wear the crown
Ofthy despised prerogafivci
m who In manhood's name az length
"a With glad songs come 20 abdicate
4, The gross regallty Of strength
IN Must yet in this thy praise abafe,
ii That through thine erring mbleness,
"A And disregard OF thy degree,
~ Mainly, has man been so much less
D. Than its his Fellowship with thee.
m High thoughts had shaped the foolish hroy
!. The coward had grasped the hero's swou
~ The vilest had been great, hadst thou,
D. Just 10 thyself, been Worth's reward"
ie Mary Ucnlmer, IN " J. Independn
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