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OVEMBEK II,
A PLEA FOR PIONEER WOMEN.
It is somewhat amusing to hear and read tho
boasting statements about the early settlement of
Oregon made by intelligent speakers and writers,
who invariably claim that tho inarch of civiliza
tion onUJis coast was led by some Rooky Moun
tain or Hudson Bay Company hunter. They do
not mention the fact that the path across the
Rocky Mountains was proved to be practicable for
.tlnimigrants by the perseverance and faith of
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"Sirs. A. S. Ddhiway
Joyed in public work
enient to furnish a
fusT, to succeed the
The publishers are
I of furnisJihil excellent story, and,
ooflzftaa; that the proper way to secure one of
wiris tp. Urijipjoouijuorsjito competition,
WtJbv offer a prise of $16 00 for tho best original
lttBn fflrtjspfflce by theJhjofl
W. To the secend bast we will award1
,f4iira&igthors UIltn
lWW&&MamAtlon. We
ffcelltHo rn5&iMiDr!aironers. The
-six chapters,
?;ss thfef tifrtife ; Cfl(y5jfe to the chapter. We
prefer them tpointn moral in the direc-
a'rf-StiMilurai9it. Tlie promhuius are
in;-J4Via4l'i4btenK will warrant at
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PROPER1Mjg
Friday
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styling th
L" .SntEalso took
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?age niters
VluUrtin CoTltInel a
ckard, in whjoli .he
lire of the LedStature
e postal rights of the
4a di lay, but not a di-
ision, "in tlie nama of
to covertly admit what has beeii Ih-
iliat she is opjwswl to Woman Suf-
thcraB
moct. .iwr mj)cn iu oujeei io me eiifrancltise
xiqgt of woman because she thinks th New
ifrrHWEST opposes her insane bill. She mi
i&yt We favor tlie postal riglfts of the iiuouie,
s4M all tlie insane. We want tlie unfortunates
"rito-xre contlned in asylums to have the same
fraction to write and circulate their rieJiriou ideas
c diatractetl thoughts as have tlie unfortunate
ir!Kioam at large. We want the pntleut? under
JDr Ha.wthoBiie's oare to have the pririku'e to
Iaim tliat they are advocates of or belle vert hi !
y doctrine, and then the liberty to deny It We
tins prerogative to be not restricted; to those
are not under his care. We want all other
le, sane and insane, to have tlie liberty which
Packard exereised when she asserted in our
fSeeaiid to us that she endorsed the prlapiple?!
JMlocatesby the New Nouthwest and hoped
' fur their ultimate triumph, ami afterward to
fcers that she is opposed to Woman SullVage.
We want lier, in jmrticular, to have this liberty,
feacauae, outside of our views on free speech, we
think her latter may prevent a violent outbreak
hu fier part and will make capital for tho woman
navement Jfirough her double dealing. We want
liar to hav3ihe freedom to mako tho insa no.
tlie foolish assVrJbn that the bill to protect the
Personal and property rightn f women "super
astiea" all claims for Woman Suffrage, because it
. fcfcelf-evident thntrif women had political rights
Aad power tliey could jhu-s auch law-s as she rfe
aireA without imploring men to do their duty.
We wmt her to understand that the property
rifits of women cannot help them to inaugurate
seeded public reforms without the ballot aniUon
aequent direct representation in the legislative
balla. We want her to learn that if women
jftfaesaed the ballot, all the changes she huaadvo
dwed.ariI &hers; M'ould have been made long
bgdk We wiCJlior to know that if women could
KMe reprdontatives to the Legislature they
wffrH n fear of the rejieal of the lajvs rela-
iQliristian women, two of whom, Mrs. Narcissa
jgfl'hitman and Mrs. Eliza Spalding, of New York,
ugyerbfu n in io,)o; iouoweu in 'as uy Mrs. Mary
Wgjusta Gray, of the same State, Mrs. Myra Fair
iJRwEells, of Massachusetts, Mrs. Mary Richard
sonAValker, of Maine, and Mrs. Sarah Smith, of
Connecticut; in '30 by Mrs. Munger, of New York,
and Mrs. Grillin, of Massachusetts; in '40 by Mrs.
Clark, Mrs. Littlejohn and Mrs. A. F. Smith.
These noble women are now generally ignored, as
if they did not help to pioneer the way and had
no influence in establishing in the wilderness the
civilization of which Oregon is so proud. The
men alone are extolled by the pioneer orators that
have been chosen to narrate the importance of the
work of the early settlement of the State, while
the fact remains without the shadow of a doubt,
confirmed by the experience of twenty-live previ
ous years, that no advancement was made until
after the arrival, in 1S30, of Mrs. Whitman and
;Mrs. Spalding, who brought a wagon, cows, im-
ijjnlenients to inaugurate farming, and books and
foharts to commence a school, and in tlie succeed
ing four years by thecoming of nineother women,
also bringing domestic animals, implements for
tho development of tho country, and school books
and Uibles, and all being qualified to teach any
branch in tlie common schools of their native
States. Thus, there were eleven intelligent Chris
tian American women who came to Oregon across
tluyUalns before the first attempt was made to
hWle UJo country by un overland immigration
Jt -".-in nscnii wit? iiiuiiiiutm irapporwno
Pwas exhibited in this chv Um) .imw I.v th
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of the Pioneers "as the llrst American settler who
had in the year 1SS6 come within twelve miles of
the place of meeting." Wedo not M-ish to detract
at all from the praise which is due to pioneer men,
but we do desire that the women who braved
equal dangers and endured equal hardships should
le equally honored with their brothers. It Is
time that men should quit claiming all the glory
of settling this country ami share it with their
sifters. If either class is deserving of higher rec
ognition than the other, it I the women, for with
out them no civilization worthy the name could
have lieen attained. Tho-e named above made
the journey of 2TiOO miles on horseback, acrosa the
plaifllmiid Rocky Mountains when they were at
all times liable to be captured by the numerous
wild and savage hordes of Indians roaming over
thecountry which they traversed, and, as proved
in subsequent years, not safe in later times, even
for more numerous trains of wagons and with
armed men. We have not mentioned the young
women who ventured upon the ocean voyage of
seventeen thousand mi lea, for the reason that they
were provided with the accommodations a ship
usually affords, and endured only the discomforts
incident to a long sea voyage.
Ijooking back through the years that hjive rap
idly sped, ami conning over the privations ami
sufferings of the women who reached this land in
thgdays of its savagery, and thinking of the easy
tja-els of men who have come in the ist twenty
years, we cannot refrain from crying out against
the bold Injustice that denies these women the
right of a voice in making the laws for their
adopted State and naming the executors, and yet
permits men who did nothing to reclaim the coun
try to set themselves up to define the political
status of these ami all other women. How unjust
it is for men, who arrived after tlie hills and val
leys were made to blossom as a rose, to claim the
right to debar from the suffrage the toiling, faith
ful women who have spent their lives in making
our land a garden spot of the work!. Who has tho
bold effrontery to my that the venerable pioneer
women should have no voice in the affaire of their
loved State? And who can admit the political
rights of these revered women without admitting
the rights of all women ?
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property, while under the exiatii status
ii any future law-making !ody tUat may
lied by a prejudiced or vicloiw filaai can
repeal all that is now gain -I. 'fn short,
to be able to comprehend tlmt the
50 Js the key to all; otlior rights,
il, natural and civil.
On oar fifo page will be found a lettor from
Hon. San. Oor'in, of Astoria, showing that Mrs.
5-i3. DunlWay was in error when she stated at
Ue raUAeation ineoting in Salem that Col. C. A.
leef ws the flcst gentleman to Introduce a
omatfcSuftrage bill in an Oregon legislature.
Mn Ctorwln Introduced such a hill in 1872, while
Mr. Reed'B ivae notoilerod until '74.
VQm Mary K Coupe has boon oleoted School
jafeitendent of Ialamj county, W. T.-f oVer&Ite
ttiiCittneiL by one votn- llnth the! voune
Ji s " ?
PUW nnl--tITo palled tho fuH
3? county. xLuaittiXrfii n nimilnr of
r a dnomma might have occurriO.
THE ELECTION.
We can give little additional news tin's week of
the Presidential contest, though everything that
is received confirms the statements in our last is
sue. All Northern States are for Garlicld, and all
Southern ones for Hancock. Tlie Democrats are
raising a "fraud" cry against the Republicans in
New York, and at the same time Tilden ami Kelly
are accusing each other of causing the result.
However, this fuss will subside as time relieves
the sting of defeat. Of the Paci lie Coast States,
Oregon is Republican, Nevada is Democratic, and
California is divided, live electors being for Han
cock and one for Garfield. Had the Democrats in
the Golden State placed any other man than D. J.
Terry, the slayer of Rrodorick, upon their tickot
for the sixth elector, they would have tlie State
Lolidly; but he is beaten badly, showing that the
voters remember him and his crime, and are not
yet ready to grant him evon the passing honor 0f
an elector. Summing up the results, wo lind that
Garfield and Arthur will have from 2S to 32 electo
ral votes moro than are ncoossary to a choice.
The death is announced of Mrs. S. C, wife of J.
U. Tumor, of Pondloton.
SCHOOL SUFFRAGE IN NEW YORK.
The school election in New York on the 13th of
October gave the women ot the Empire State their
first opportunity to vote, and well did they im
prove it. We havo not given attention to the
matter before because school suffrage for women
in Oregon is an assured thing and does not enlist
much discussion. Rut in New York the experi
ment was tried with misgivings, and all forebod
ings vanished. We have at hand several ex
changes, representing various shades of public
opinion, and all unite in pronouncing tlie innova
tion a success. The number of ladies who voted
was quite large, and their actions demonstrated
that they had become thoroughly conversant with
their new duties. The ladies voted in order.
Their work had been thoroughly systemized. A
Republican politician at Fayetteville remarked
that the ladies "had taught them something in
the way of organizing; each woman had her place
and kept it." In tlmt one little village, one hun
dred and two women voted. Many ladies used
their private carriages to bring women to the
polls. Numbers of the aged and infirm voted.
One lady, noted for her deeds of charity, said, after
depositing her ballot, "I feel as if I was somebody
now:"
The order at the polls was remarkably good in
comparison with previous elections, proving tlmt
men in New York, as in every part of the coun
try, will be gentlemen when in the presence of
ladies. In the New York Sun of the 23d ultimo
we lind these wools : " Reports from many coun
ties of the State concur that the ladies' presence
has brought unwonted order to the jiolls." The
only disgraceful scenes reported were a light at
New Lots, noted for disturbances, and the occa
sional curt ami cranky actions of insectors, who
.soon got used to the novelty ami conducted thorn
selves prtqierly.
The Xai tonal Citizen says that the election
pro veil that "women, even those who 'say they do
not want to vote, will vote as soon as they have
opportunity, for not only ladies voted who before
had stood on the sutlrage fence, but those who ap
parently were entirely upon the other side;" it
proved "the fallacy of the talk that men are more
willing thau women that women should vote, and
that whenever women demand the ballot they
will get it," for the only objections were raised by
men ; it proved the falsity of the assertion that
"women will vote jint as their husband do," for
mauy instance to the contrary are noted.
Now thai the people of New York have had a
practical iilustratiou of Uie benefits of ochool suf
frage for wotneu, we hare hopes for the apeedy
adoption of hwi for their full enfranchisement ip
tliat State. The oucees of the Innovation on the
13th ultimo gives the suffragists a leyerage with
which to work, ami they will utilize it.
Like all (tapers that attempt to oppose Woman
Su II rage, the f'kui Orrjfonian fall to respond when
asked to give a single logical reason for denying
the ballot to women, ft simply says tliat "jier
hajw," when it has "more leisure time," it will
"discuas the question at greater length," ami then
gives a column clipping from mi exchange to
illustrate the ignorance irf one woman about tlie
Presidential contest. Any one who would take
the time to read it would not wonder that the
Fm1 Oregonian is opposed to Woman Suffrage, if
the editor's feminine relatives, friends and ac
quaintances are so ignorant or weak-minded as to
inspire him with the contempt for their intelli
gence that tho clipping displays. A man's Ideas
of women are formed from observation of those
with whom he associates. If the editor has not
time to discuss the woman question, and so very
great time is needed to discover one reason
against tlie rights of women, he should not have
attempted to deal with the subject. No scrupu
lous journalist treats of a subject that he has not
time to properly display for his readers. "As
illustrative of tlie iigure men cut in politics," we
call the E. o: attention to tlie fact that the other
day a man and a good Democrats-sent some
greenlmcks to this city, ami offered to iiy the
difference between them and gold, evidently hav
ing not heard of "resumption," to which he, as a
good "iMirty" man, was opposed, not knowing
that it would increase the value of his money.
Two witnesses, arrested for perjury in connec
tion with thu Gurfleld-Morey Chinese letter, have
confessed that they swore to lies when testifying
in favor of Philp, and oneof them says he received
$150 from the National Democratic Committee.
Clara S. Morey swears that she never made atllda
vit that she had a sou named H. L. Morey living
in Lynn, Mass., and further says that she does not
know and never heard of a Morey in her family or
any branch of it named Henry L. Yet, with this
doubly infamous weight of forgery and perjury to
answer for, the Democracy raise the cry in New
York that I lancock was defrauded. This sublime
impudence is not sanctioned by Hancock and
many other prominent Democrats, who realize
that the country's choice is Garfield.
The members of the Oregon Pioneer and Histor
ical Society have accepted a design for a monu
ment to the memory of Dr. Marcus Whitman and
his martyr associates, and are steadily working to
raise funds to roar it It will be a Celtic cross of
granite, thirty-three feet high, with anna sevon
feet in length. ,
Mississippi's now cod.e of lftws, under whloh
woman have equal property rights with mon,
wont into effect on tha 1st titffant.
IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
M. Camille See, a Deputy from the Department
of the Seine, recently submitted a bill to the
French Chambers for the removal of various legal
disabilities of women. It is especially designed
to benefit single women and widows, asking that
the former shall be permitted to act as witnesses
at registration, and that a widow shall possess
the same right over her children that her husband
did previous to his death, and that she shall be
their legal guardian without her husband's being
able to assign her to a family council. For mar
ried women it asks certain rights to be secured
them when their husbands, by crime, have in
curred the loss of liberty and civil rights, and also
proposes to enable husbands undetiied by crime
to grant certain powers over property to their
wives. It seems in France, as in some of the
States of this country, to be one of the anomalies
of the law that it will not jKirmit affectionate hus
bands to deal according to their just (twines by
their wive ; but when they want to do right,
is forced upon them.
At a recent Woman Sullrage meeting In Lon
don, Mr. Robert Crawford, of the Reform Club,
presided, and made a pointed speech. Miss Down
ing moved the following resolution :
That by tlie Pxrlulon of women from the right to vote In
the election of Member of Parliament, a considerable por
tion of the property. Intelligence and indnatry or the na
tion In deprived of representation in the House of Com
mons. This resolution was seconded by Miss Taylor in
an able speech. Mr. IlaviJand also supported it,
reading a letter from Major Duncan, the unsuc
cessful Conservative candidate for Pittsburg, ex
pressing his approval of the resolution and regret
at not being present to siipMrt it
Mrs. Ashton Dilke ollered ami Mr. W. A- Mac
Donald seconded this resolution :
That a petition to the Ilonite of Commons, bawd on thi
foregoing resolution, be signed by the chairman and for
warded by him.
It is thought by tho NcUionui Citizen tout theat
resolutions, backed by people of ability and in
fluence, will create public sentiment rapidly it
favor of woman's equality.
P. H. S.
On Friday, November 5th, the Execntive Board
of the Pioneer and Historical Society met is As
toria, Yiee-I'resklent J. 1L D. Gray in the ehair.
Members present W. IL Gray, A Van Dusen
J-L C. Holdeti and S, T. McKean.
The Corresponding Secretary presented a com
.municatton from Rev. J. IL Hopkins, JX !., -WillbuiiPfmrt,
Pa., embodying a design for th
proposed monument to Whitman, which wa
read ami after due cotfleration unanimously a
proved ami miopted by the Roard, and the Corn
snotuling Secretary was instructed- to extend tb
thanks of the Society to Dr. Hopkins for the sann
As there has been some difference of opinion I
regard to where the proposed monument shoui
be located, some claiming that it should be
Walla Walla, instead of on the ground where tf!
nubfeacre occurred, the following was unanimous
adopted, with a view to settling the matter:
Rroiri, That it Is the sentiment of thin Board that tt
proper place for the monument is at the acene of the m
sacre, on the ground donated to tht Society for that pcr
pose, and already partially Improved by this PocJety.
Tlie Corresjionilliig Secretary presented a large
number of communications, which were read and
placed on tile.
Mrs. Arnold, the only surviving sister of Gen
eral "Stonewall" Jackson, now lives at Ruckhan
non, West Virginia. She was throughout the
war a faithful Unionist, although every member
of her family except one a young nephewwas
a secessionist. For her brother she entertahis tlie
reverence of an undying love and allection, and
she insists that it was with extreme reluctance
and profound misgiving that he took up arms
against his country. He declared that lie would
never go outside of Virginia to fight. He voted
against the ordinance of secession in old Virginia,
and urged his sister to use her influence to keep
West Virginia fast to the Union. A profoundly re
ligious man, he was wont to say, even after he had
taken up the sword: "If we are right, God will
prosper us; if we are wrong, God will destroy us."
Yet his sister is denied the ballot, while nearly
every member of the confederacy is reconstructed
and mnde a sovereign. Thus are faithful Union
women rewarded.
Mr. M. H. Abbott, of the Raker City licvcille
who has been a most uncompromising opponent
of Woman Suffrage for the past decade, has evi
dently been giving the question something mom
than superficial study of late, for the last number
of his paper contained tlie following: "Wo have
about made up our mind that women should he
enfranchised. The mother, wives and daughters
of America are certainly as intelligent as two
tlurtls of those who vote now-n-davs " AVe wJ
come our new ally, ad i tho wut ()f Umo
that he w.ll do good service in promoting th.
ctmse he has helped to retard. We do not wish
be officious, but wo hope he will occasionally av
tZrWTli lrothren of
OrVoInS11 a,Ul 6110 1endlot
The United States Conimlssir ujlfetu.. tn
Burligamo treaty, l,ftV(! hu kiyZZ
and are steadily ln eof,rece with BH-r:
Uun& T10' f0naly tutor to fJho Ins i