The Revolution, vol. 5, no. 15, April 14, 1870, p. 232

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY, $3 A YEAR. NEW YORE CITY SUBSCHIPTIONS, $3.20. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Eaitor. PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS, Cor. Eaitor. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Proprictor. OFFIOR, 49 EAST TWENTY-THIRD ST., N. Y NEW YORK. APRIL 14, 1870. ADITORIAE CORRESPONDENCE. MINNEAPOLIS, March, 1870.

DaAn REvVOoLUTION Two weeks in Minnesota, with its clear, bracing air, brigbt sunshine, grand bluffs, rich valleys, rolling prsiries. majestic Missssippi, romantic falls of Minnebahs and St. Anthony, and its n ble men and women What a state this is destined to be, with double the acres New York oan boast, and the largest water. power in the world! Beside being a great manufacturing and agrioultural country, it possesses inexhaustible resources in its won, copper, siste, granite, clay, limestone, salt springs, lumber, sand, and fish. Its climate is singularly favorable not only for the health of the people, but for the cultivation of fruits, flowers, rice, sweet potatoes, and, I am sorry to sdd, tobacoo, for at is a pity to desecrate one acre with that vile weed. Gov. Austin might better bave forbidden its growth than Woman's Suffrage, for the real interests of the state would be promoted by securing to woman ber rights of ciuzenship, and thus encournging the immigration of wealth, brains and beauty.

St. Paul and Minneapolis are proud rivals of one another. The former can bosst the best society, the most sprightly editors, the finest residences, the most busimess, and the boldest soemery ; the latter the best notel, wide, regular streets, and an extensive park. It must be a beautiful city in the no distant future. If1 were to choose a renidence in cither, to-day, it would be Minneapolis, beosuse its streets are at right angles. St. Paul, like Boston, goes zigzagging every way. 1 would not risk my future spiritusl ssfety by living there, for if the road to heaven is straight, 1t 1s s bad preparstion to go crooking sbout through atll one's esrthly pilgrimage.

I had a splendid audience of ladies in St. Paul to hear my lecture on "Marriage snd Materuity." That subject seems to touch deeper chord in the femmine sor than Suffge as few porcerve how much the social status is affected by political equaslity.

At St. Anthony, bad a bttle passage at arms with Prof. Campboll of the 8 ste University As he bad been making some speeches against Woman's Suffrage, 1 was inter stod to bear some of his objections. The specisl point be made at the olose of my lecture was, that man aiways had been, and would be. the natursl protsctorof woman. He proved tis to his own satisfction by the age of chiiry. by the fire and geal with which men in. al ages bad pursusd the women they loved. He pointed to Helon, Aspesia, Cleopatrs, eto.. sif any one doubted that man, in the fire of his youth, or passion, would pot even blow his brains out for some individual woman; but

hs Rerenti ho t e mig protectors for the congiomerste masss of womankind who bave neither grace, besuty. wealth, nor position

Feeling 100 tired to put on my seven-leagued boots and bound back over oceans and continents to consider the beroes and heroines of Troy. Greooe and Rome, I cilled the Professor to the women of Minnesota, teaching for $500 year in the public schools, with no Leander swimming the Missismppi to rescue them from their lives of monotonou poverty, Summoned to bis mative land, the Professor was fired asnew with enthusiasm over our late war, and in the exuberance of his chivairy be said it was fought out orthe depths of man's love for woman for our firesides and our bomes. This was new ides. I had alwsys thought the late war was fought for the megro, as his elevation was the grand result. He was emancipsted and enfranchised, and made the judge, juror and lewgiver for all womankind: but pray what pew honor, right, or privilege did woman secure from the first gun st Sumter to the final capture of Jof. Davis in pettiooats We pause for a reply. The Fiteenth Amendment, the great moral measure on which the republiosn party specially plumes itself, is the establishment of an aristocracy of sex, reducing woman to the condition of a serf, practicslly placing the wives, mothers and daughtn of this repu he under a Foreign yoke. So much for the chivalry of the nineteenth century.

Gomg to St. Cloud, where the last bridge spans the Missussippi in the north, even there 1 found the women im rebellion. As Senstor Waite, who was woman's champion in the last legisiature, resides there, he may fairly be held responsible for the social revolution mow inaugurated in that flourishing town. The Senstor's highly imtellectusl wife stands like a pillsr of strength and besuty by bis side. I had the honor of being introduced to the audience by the Senator. At the close of my lecture quite sparty adjourned to the plessant pariors of Mrs. West, where, in the midst of oysters, icecreams and ooffee, a Suftrage Associntion was formed, with quite a brilliant array of names of the leading ladies and gentlemen of St. Cloud,

There I met Mrs. Swissbelm's sister, nepbew and niece, the lstter bright sud sparkling a new wine. When some of the gettlemen sppointed to draft a constitution spoke of the trouble of such a proceedimg. e isughingly said, “I'll lend you Combe's Consttution of Man' for a model."

Time fails me to tell you of all the plessant friends 1 met at Hastings, how near I came in orong the ioe there to ding my lst ret place in the arms of the Father of Waters; of that ride in cutter thurty-ix miles to Stillwater, and baok from St. Paul, through arire. pitob-holes, deep water, siush. oe. mud, or. on, on, four weary bours, with an sudience waiting unt mear mine o'clook. Verily. Lyceum lecturing is not all sunshine. With s piessant visit under the bospitable roof of Mr Wheston, formely of S lecture in the Rev. Edwin Williams's ocburob in North field, 1 onded my engagements in Minposota. and lest her balmy sir, clear skies, and pumberlew copies of Tas REvoron beind ma. and whizsed off to lowa a c. a

MoGono ow Dass REvoo Hee w t p night, but we had s smesh up, and reached the own at eleven instend of seven. A lerge s-

dienoe disappointed, however. I amto lecte this afrrnoon. It is easily on that the ve question to-y is Woman's Suffrage. Packed houses everywhere show the deep interest the peopie fee in it. On the way to the Methomt cr were was to speak, the gentiemn who was to intro- Ouo me id there were mo iromg mimd wo men in McGregor. So1 opened my spesch by stating the fact and deploring the and condiion of that community but several voios shou out. “Thet not r, there g plenty o them." So st the ciose, 1 too8 the vote, and the wihole sudionce went sold for Woman s Suffrage

I bave i pew way of puttng the wote “Let afl those who are in fvor keep thotr sent n those opposed rise.” 1In this way one get the most favorsbie response, beosuse women. hke imanimsate objecta, gemerally noed some externsl foros to put them in mouon. sud the ma of them would not rise up to save the mstion.

peroeive, the odum and fstagne of opposition is far less in amy sudenoe than one might sntcipste. Some osrping persons bave crincined this way of putting the vots, but see no resson why we should vote just s men things quite differently. 1f you osll for the ayes a few deep-voioed men could drown out hundreds of women. Seeing, then, thet women will mot rise their vosoes mor stand wp. it is fa nd wise to tke their approvsl of everything by witmoe and the sittimg posture. McOregor is feartully and wonderfully but, i a doep valley with bold biu tht e the hesvens. How they smport any breers there in the summer, 1 de pot see. The soemery about is very fine. and the town of greet com mercisl importance. They have one of the most remarkable ominuses tt 1 hed oen in many a day. Very long snd very marrow, the sonts just mape inches wade, on which the men. women and cbularen sre lteraily percbed. As we joited siong sbout s mile lughed in my seeve sll the way, to wee how much hke unhappy fowis the mt h prim hmes. vis, oly w necessity of keeping our respoctive pleoes. The man thet but st must have made some ben-ooop his model

My troubles a9 mot end t MoGirego. fon oo Chien. the floamg ioe wept ne prisoners for hours in mgbt of the beartlons ongrime. with 1ts train, that fimstly wed of M out ua.

Obliged to wait $or amothor bost to fire up and come ont to our smte. w r ourselves to our fte, ad aiepon gentim them by peech. o nd there. M t for e ori which p of thes ormen. whe oe e w the state. shonid heve a wore in the pow ment. At the slone of my p . were trred p. w we h come to blows One acired women wr to wte he would loswe the couners. bim not to 4o wo rsh ma. gion ws pre in be would e o wan orer on the faee of the rt. and. e O