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“ By all men's definitions of the term, the witholding of the ballot and representation while taxes are imposed, is the most abject of servitude. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Otis says that the act of taxing, exercised over those not represented, is servitude. Franklin said that to be enslaved is to have others govern them. Paine said that the right of voting is the primary right upon which all other rights are based. All the women want of congress or State Legislatures is a declaratory law, explaining the meaning of the 14th Amendment. ”

“ A neat, clean, fresh-aired, sweet, cheerful, well-arranged house exerts a moral influence over its inmates, and makes the members of a family peaceful and considerate of each other's feelings and happiness. The connection is obvious between the state of mind this produces, and respect for others, and for those higher duties and obligations which no law can enforce. On the contrary, a filthy, squalid, noxious dwelling, in which none of the decencies of life are observed, contributes to make the inhabitants selfish, sensual and regardless of the feelings of others ”

“ Why are you out here alone at this hour? Whom did you expect to meet?"
"I am here alone because I have a right to come and choose to exercise the right. I expected to meet none but the Creator who stretcheth out the heavens as a span. I came here to commune with Him."
The Doctor's companion wrapped his heavy cloak about his face and disappeared in the black shadows of the moon-lit grove.
"By what right do you transgress upon my grounds?" I continued. "Your companion flees at my approach and you proceed to arraign me as a criminal, guilty of some flagrant misdemeanor. Dr. Armstrong! ”

“ Behold the haggard faces of thousands of her sisters, toiling for remorseless taskmasters — the factor girls, the seamstresses, and the multitudes in various other employments — their remuneration but a bare pittance scarcely sufficient to keep body and soul together, and then reflect that upon the earnings of many of these women depends the support of aged parents or orphaned brothers and sisters. Have the "people" voted while this vast army of toiling women and them not only, but every woman throughout the land — has been denied the elective franchise? ”

“ Every State and National election demonstrates that armies of voters neglect to vote; and so long as masculines exclusively shall continue to engineer our political system, by which thieves, roughs and rowdies exercise a controlling influence, both at conventions, caucuses and the polls, so long will the better classes continue to absent themselves from the polls, and will only interest themselves in political matters when to do so in the interest of personal friends or for local improvements.—Pioneer. ”

“ Do you call that a rich endowment which does not yield enough revenue to keep a 11⁄2 month's school In a year? Why, sir, as compared with the States of Illinois, Iowa and other new Western States, we are poorly endowed. A single county of the States aforenamed has a greater fund than the whole State of Oregon. ”

“ And it further declares that: "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles as shall secure their safety and happiness." How can this be done peaceably except by giving to them the right to vote? The idea of free government does not appertain to those not enfranchised. The tenor of the Constitution is the same. ”

“ The appeal has been taken to the ballot box, and the "people" have returned the verdict! What a libel, when one-half of the citizens of our country are denied the right to vote, and when consequently not one of that number has the chance to pass an opinion upon the questions at issue!
Come with us, reader, and take a survey of the voters around the polls at election. You see the professional politician, the wily attorney, the wealthy merchant, the devout clergyman, and last but by no means least, the sturdy workingman. ”

“ The theory of our Government is embodied in the Declaration of Independence which declares that "all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights;" "that to secure these rights, Governments were instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." ”

“ Let those who say the voting power has nothing to do with the regulation of wages come and take items. Suppose you this laboring man, holding the grand birth-right of freedom in his hands, will deposit his vote in favor of any party or candidate opposed to labor reforms in which he is interested? And do you further suppose that any party or candidate, knowing that this workingman — the type of the great mass of our voters — holds in power the political say-so, will run counter to his wishes?
Having suggested these thoughts in reference to the workingman, let us now turn to the workingwoman. ”

“ If the principle of Woman Suffrage is correct — and that it is, is now almost universally acknowledged — then it logically follows that every woman has the right to vote, and the fact that a majority should not care to exercise that right ought not to debar those who might choose to show their preference in the selection of the officers who are to administer their National, State, county and municipal affairs from giving expression to their wishes at the ballot-box on election day. ”

“ This is only needed to allay the doubts which may exist in the minds of the election officers. The Legislature could very properly do this, and if they did, she could promise them the most gratifying of results — the immigration of a large number of good women to the Territory. The ballot is the key that unlocks the door to knowledge, to equal wages, to honor, to prosperity. ”

“ To publish a malignant falsehood, and qualify it with a feeble, languidly expressed hope that it may be a mistake, or malicious misrepresentation of the press, should be poor consolation to a conscience not wholly seared by its own lascivious and free-love doctrines and practices. ”

“ If Jesus forgave the woman taken in adultery, and said to the thief on the cross, "This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise," we should like to know what there is, or can be criminal, or needing any answer or explanation in the visit of two respectable, intelligent ladies, with world-wide reputation for ability and purity of life, to the cell of the vilest creature alive for the purpose of condolence, or any other purpose such women could go for? ”

“ When in the fitful pauses of busy life our feet wander back to the old homestead, and, crossing the well-worn threshold, stand once more in the low, quaint room, so hallowed by her presence, how the feeling of childish innocence and dependence comes over us, and we kneel down in the molten sunshine, streaming through the western window — just where long years ago we knelt by our mother's knee, lisping "Our Father." ”

“ Waymire has given a plentiful supply of facts and figures; enough, we would think, to start from his habitual lethargy the dullest Oregonian and fill him with an earnest conviction of the necessity of doing something more than we are doing for the education of our youth, more than half of whom do not attend school at all, or so irregularly as to make no progress in their schooling. ”

“ We're living on our principal — yes, of course, and what there'll be left to live on soon wouldn't board a chicken, I can tell you. I never saw a man so changed, and worn, and worried out, in one year's time, as Hiram Bent is. Giving up that shop, and fretting for those children, are rasping him to death. I'm so down-hearted and disheartened myself, that I declare, I don't know how to pull along. Hiram's lung is in a dreadful state. We're most worn out, and it doesn't seem as if we saw an inch ahead or ever should. ”

“ And now, why has not this working woman voted to-day as well as the workingman? Has she no rights to protect, no wrongs to redress, no kindnesses to remember, as well as he? Does she not need the protection of laws in the making of which she has some voice, as well as that the workingman should be enabled to insert in our statutes provisions favorable to his interest? But perhaps you suy this workingwoman's is an exceptional case. ”

“ That men have possessed the ballot box entirely to themselves is all the reason that anyone ever deemed it improper for women to go the polls, while all that renders our fairs, picnics and Fourths of July other than general displays of rowdyism is due to the presence of women. ”

“ Woman Suffrage.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, the renowned advocate of universal suffrage and Temperance reform, lectured in Olympia Hall on Tuesday evening upon the one great object of her life — the enfranchisement of women. We had formed a high opinion of the ability of the lady, and her remarkable talent as a public speaker, and our expectations have been more than realized. She presents her arguments in graceful and elegant language, her illustrations are ample and well chosen, and the hearer is irresistably drawn to the conclusions which she seeks to inculcate. ”

“ The iron grasp of the employer may grow more merciless still, but she is powerless. She casts no vote; she helps make no laws; she has no governmental voice. She is a mere machine. Her work may be in every respect as good as that of the workingman, yet it is only paid half as much for, for it is merely the work of a machine. ”

“ If meddling with politics is out of a woman's sphere all this is certainly treading close upon the boundary lines, yet it is never intimated that it is in any way improper; but as soon as we ask to take part in the exercises of that one day a dismayed cry comes from every quarter. ”

“ The Legislature of Washington Territory is now in session, and we respectfully call the attention of that honorable body to a communication on the first page of to-day's issue, which suggests some needed reforms in the laws relating to women holding property. As in Washington Territory, so it is in every State and Territory throughout the Union, to a greater or less extent, where women are denied participation in framing the statutes. We have no idea that this unfair discrimination will ever be done away until woman is armed with that most efficacious of all reformatory weapons, the ballot. ”

“ I have not seen any criticism upon the almost universal system of legislation, on the exemption of property from execution for debt, wherein there is nearly always partiality against the widow and in favor of the husband and wife. For instance, in this Territory, a man, married or unmarried, as a professional man is entitled to a library and other property to the value of hundreds of dollars, which cannot be taken for debt; whereas the widow and children of such man are deprived of any such exemption in their favor. ”

“ While we are not in the least afraid but that the women of Washington Territory will, in case this bill becomes a law, vote overwhelmingly in favor of Woman Suffrage, yet we do not approve of the principle therein contained, that a portion of the women of our country might be restrained from the just exercise of their inherent rights because a bare majority, perchance, of their own sex were indifferent thereto. ”

“ If I've lost the power to go to the store, and you've got it, I hope I'm man enough, Paulette, to be a good housekeeper. Now run and see Dincks as quick as you can! You're such a hand to see to things, Paulette!"
Now, how many men do you know would have done that? I never saw an other one. I don't think there is an other man in the world like Hiram.
"We'll get you well between us!" said I, half laughing and half crying too, "and if I do pretty well, we'll hire Mary Smith, and you shall go off somewhere and board a fortnight in a four-dollar-a-day hotel for a change! ”

“ Stanton and Miss Anthony, on account of sympathy alleged to have been manifested towards Laura D. Fair, now under sentence of death for shooting Mr. Crittenden, a lawyer of eminence, who had deserted his wife and family, and had, for years, given himself, soul and body, to the woman who finally avenged not only her own wrong, but the wrongs of his wife, by meteing to him his just reward. It is not our intention to justify Mrs. Fair in her act, but that Crittenden met a fate he richly deserved no one will deny. ”

“ Blessed is the memory of an old-fashioned mother. It floats to us now, like the beautiful perfume of some woodland blossom. The music of other voices may be lost, but the entrancing memory of hers will echo in our souls forever. Other faces will fade away and be forgotten, but hers will shine on until the light from heaven's portals shall glorify our own. ”

“ This bill, however, is a great stride in the right direction. The opponents of Woman Suffrage may well say that it has become "too formidable to be laughed at," as Beriah Brown expresses it. But a few years ago it was looked upon as an absurdity which would never rally even a respectable number of adherents to its support. To-day in every State and Territory it counts its supporters by thousands; it has found its way into legislative bodies and has become there the one great theme of discussion; political conventions no longer entirely ignore the demands of its votaries ”