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4 The Revolution 1

handle is hein.peggy/revol0004 and id is 1 raw text is: 0' pIaNCIPLE, NOT POLICY JUSTIOE, NOT PA VORS.-MEN, THEIR RIGHTS AND NOTHING MORE: WOME, THEIR RIGHTS AND NOTHIN LESS. VOL. I.--NO. 1V. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1869. WHOLE NO. 79. PUBLL13HED WEEKLY, $2 A YEAR. NEW YORK CITY suBsCRIPTIONS, $2.50. -ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Editor. SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Proprietor. OFFICE, 49 EAST TWENTY-THIRD ST. TO OUR FRiENDS. Ws earnestly entreat every man and woman throughout the country, who really desires Woman's Suffrage, to give a practical proof of their sympathy by contributing just one dolar from their resources, to assist in carry- ing on the cause. This small sum, which all can easily spare, if given by each of our professed well-wishers, will provide a fund ample enough to ensure our triumph, and, at the same time, enable our friends to sit down with a quiet conscience, in the assurance, that they have put their shoulders to the wheel and added acts to words. For in this, as in all other things, nothing can be achieved without money. We want to hold conven- tions in every county throughout the land, to send out agents, to scatter tracts and pamphlets, and, in a word, to convince the public that we are in earnest; but all this cannot be done without a well supplied treasury. The members of all political, re- ligious and social organizations find it ne- cegsary to contribute liberally to carry out their purposes ; then why not we for ours? The goal is almost in sight; it is admitted, even by our enemies, that its attainment is only a question of time ; and it rests with ourselves to say when it shall be reached. But for this we must have the sinews of war. And if our friends will provide them by becoming members of the National Wo- naau's Suffrage Association, we can assure them that their money will not be squand- a ered, but that every dollar will be faith- lully and judiciously appliei to the common I object in view, and that with this aid, there f is good reason to hope that our women ill vote -in the very next presidental elec- a tion. t WORING WONAWs AssoCIATxo.--ThisAsso- v ciation holdp its semi-monthly meeting next, I Thursday evening,.July 15, at Plympton Hall, $ corer of 13tuyve uat and Ninth treet. C -NEW E-NGLAAD ANTI-SLAVERY CO VEN7 I O 7. BY PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS. IN reading Mr. Phillips's speech before the New En-land Anti-Slavery Society, publishec in the Standard, June 12th, I find some point of. interest to us. In speadng of the ratification of the Fifteentt Amendment, he says, freedom will be inse cure without it., and when the surplus of Chiur comes, as come it will, the same trouble will b repeated. 'Iis mass of ignorance, pourin into our country, must be provided for, even ii anticipation, because, men to be safe in free- dom must be enfranchised. In the next sen. tence, he says, we must have in the constitu. tion a barrier against pride of race. There is no safety for us, until this is done. Will there be any safety for us, when this is done ? is the questiob. Will the government be made purer and better by bringing in two millions ol negro men, millions of Chinamen, Alaskans, Germans and Irishmen ? Where is the new element in this? In Chemistry, if we wish to purify or sweeten a mass, we do not go on add- ing acid to acid, but we pour in an allili, it foams and seethes but is purified. In the cru- cible, gold, silver, brass, copper, tin and lead are all thrown in together, the heat fuses them in one liquid mass, the added chemical purifies and amalgamates them. What does our nation need but the element which will purify its poli- tical life and render it homogeneous? We do not want Englishmen, Irish, Germans, China- men and negroes, but Americans bound together m one common brotherhood, and to do this theie must be no class legislation, no struggle be- tween the fathers and the mothers of the country ; there must be no more pride of sex than of race. Again, Mr. Phillips says, of all the utterances of Grant, the best was his request, ' Ratify the Amendment before I come in.' This seems to me but the desire of a man who wished to glide on smoothly in his admiuibtration. Had the Sixteenth been before the people, ho would have aid, settle this, don't let me be worried with it, .want peace. But the clause in the speech most amusing is the following: Give Con- gress and the Legislatures no peace until this point is gained. We must coerce Rhode Island and convert Ohio. Think of it, our big brother dassachusetts is going to coerce little Rhoda. Isn't it too frightful? I begin to think of de- ence for my castle, and armor, of lights and roubadours, of tilts and tournaments, of lint ud litters. If he had only said, we will hug [hode Island, why it would have been so natu- al that not a pulse would have throbbed in all he vast state, whose pride may well be touched vith a threat further that, the passage of the 4ifteenth Amendment would enable her to'sell ;10 of her manufactuies where she now sells ,nly $5. This is almost as good as a large - bonus to the state, and a noble motive for urging on the enlarged manhood suffrage. Mr. Wilson took a more enlarged view of the condition of the emancipated slaves than some others. He said there were 46,000,000 acres of public lands in the south, and, two or three 3 ears ago, Congress passed an act giving to I every person who wanted them eighty acres. s and giving the black man six months to take his choice before any white man could come in. Be- sides these public lands at the South, the whole . domain of the United States lay open to the black men as it did to the white, and they could e take what they wanted. Land is also very cheap at the South and a thrifty black man can acquire land to tilL Now, was there ever a suspension of any man's choice of place, position or possession, for a woman? I do not say the black man had not the right to these favors, God forbid ; but I should like to have the black woman remem- bered, and not have all the trades, and profes- sions, and the land monopolized by the black f men, as they have been by the white men, from the highest profession to the lighter menial offices of the kitchen. In the hotels you see women carrying heavy pails of water up three and four flights of stairs and scrubbing floors, while strong men are filling salts, ornamenting tables, and waiting the beck and call of snobs and lords. Milliners, dressmakers and artificial flower makers are jostled and crowded, by men, out of these lighter labors. But no matter for all this, the good, genial Senator gave us a sugar plum at the close of his speech. He says we must secure the negro, and then we shall have to consider Woman's Suffrage. I suppose he thinks if he says nothing about the Chinamen who are to come in under that act, that the women will be more quiet. Three winters among the freed- men quite relieve me of half my cares, for the men there are fewer obstacles now to contend with, than for the working women of the North. But the black women are in the worst possible condition; overlooked in the struggle, they are left to the tender merqies of a race of men just merging from barbarism. Always, till I fully realized what the present action of government meant, my whole sympathy has been with the colored race, as a race oppressed ; now my sym- pathies go out to all the women of the South, black and white, for they will not have the ballot for their defence. When Senator Sumner pre- sented the petition of New England women with a protest, saying, let the women wait, this is the negro's hour, hot tears of indignation flowed from many a woman's eyes. Then it was I wished for Rogers's pen of fire to denounce Congress as he did the Hopkinton Association of Ministers. It was in substance a wish to gag the women of our country, to say, you shallnot teven petition till we see fit to let you. When will women realize that they are slaves, and with one heart and one mind strike the. blow which shall set them free? They. must achieve their greatness. It will not be thrust upon them

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