The Revolution, vol. 5, no. 16, April 21, 1870, p. 248

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY, $3 A YEAR. NEw YoRE CrTY SUBSCHPTIONS. $3.20. ELIZABRTH CADY STANTON, Raiter. PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS. Cor. Eator. SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Proprieter.

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NEW YORK. APRIL 21, 1870.

ADITORLAL CORRESPONDENCE.

CEpaAn RAPIDS, lowa, April 7, 1870. DaAn REvoLUTION: A chapter of accidents. Left Clinton at five o'clock in the morping to reach Montecello. Arrived at Cedar Rapids st eleven, and reccived the plessing imtelligence that the train had gone. There are two features of railroed travel in Iows, most surprising and bewildering to the innocent traveller. 1st. The roads run generally in parallel lines, never lookimg at or shaking hands with esch other, and orossing from one to the other involves dreary mdes in the most hope less looking stiges man ever made, fording creeks. sailing on rafts and stopping places fit only for the lower animals.

24. Where there is a cross-rond, wisch is rare, it mever runs with the slightest reference to the main rosd, but obstinately on its own hook, as the managers of the different routes take a malicious pleasure in snnoying esch other, never seeming to think or to care for the delays and disappoimtments that fall on bapless men, women and children. Finding myself shut up with bad rosds, floods, no bridges (Towa has an antipathy to bridges), 1 decided to rest at Cedar Rapids for a few days and spesk one evening there. But no soomer was I comfortably ensconced st the American, which by the way is admirably kept. s woman with brains being the head of it, than my son telegraphed me from Monteoello, where be had hoped to meet me, that 1 must come there, that he bad engaged a special train.

Being informed that the special train would leave at six, 1 was ready st thet bour, but the conductor being drunk, had gone off an bour before, and was anxiously enquiring for me at overy stopping place along the line. At the end of the route a large sudience wuited my coming. My son and lyceum managers tolegraphing., "Where is the train ?"Whers is Mrs. Stanton 7At the other end. tood red. disgusted, indignent, replying. Here 1 am, but where is the train ?"At eight o' clock, as no train returned, went back to the hotel. bag and bagange (in a good state of mind to say damn ), while the audienoe at Montinello dpered at 9 o'clock, cursimg all womsnkind My son overbesrd groups bere and there say. Just like a woman ;" "never can depond on them"

Tleane remember, dear sirs, that sueh are the results of your own management. Women have mot one word to say about railronds. stages, bridges. When we bave, oh, whet order and barmony will reign With sober women for engineors and conduotors, there will be no smash ups mor running off before they are sent Wheon the women of ows vote, there will be deent roads and bridges, and trains in friendly rols-

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Wednesday morning dswned bright and besn tifnl, and as my son joined me, we pamed pleasant day together, making plans to resch Iows City. With maps, guides and maoy counsellors, we had two routes under consider tion. One route, thirty mues by tae, roads, an all day pull through mud snd swollen gers witho baggagA oovered carmage was at our servioe for $35 to be paid for on starting. with no promise of resching there. and oould not take a trunk. Ou the otber hand. sixty miles railrond, with s broak in the middie of ten miles staging snd three on a raft across the lows river. As my feithful travelling conpanion, my trunk, could join the party on this route, we decided on the istter. and aocordimgiy. at the appointed fime, we went to the depot. got tackets, checks, walked, chatted with that semse of rehef people feel after deciding a puszling question. In due time, by the bustling among the depot offcisls, we learned tha the tram was off the track thirty miles sway. and would be two hours lste. To resch the Rock Island route we bad not balf an bour to spare, so bere was another cold shower, $300 out of pocket in two days, snother ssppointed audience, and more ansthemas on all womsnkind. Back aga to the botel, to start in the might-train for Batavis, Ill. where I am sadvertised for Saturday evening. This time I shall give the trains twenty-four bours for balks, sulks and sll manner of perverse and contrary behaviour.

Although my usually placid soul bas beem so terribly tempest-tossed in Ceder Rmids, yet canmot be insensible to the fact that this 1ss fine towr, pleasantly situsted on the banks of the Cedar river. It boasts 6,000 imbabitants, some of the finest brick residences in the state and is the headquarters of Jonn J. Blais, the railway king of the west. The wiew. from my windows, of the mver, now much swollen by the fiood, has been a constant plessure to me, dsncing. sporkhing in the bright sunshine all day, and in the sweet mume of its rush ing waters whispering notes of tenderness and love all might. Nature is beautiful, slthough mankind are so perverse E. C a

THE APPROACHING ANNIVERSART —

Too much cannot be thougnt or said of its importance. And t5 bigh ime he who to attend it should be making their arrengements, especially those who have far to travel, and those who expect or wish to take sctive part in the proceedings. The momentons im portance of the osuse stael hould wake al that is nmoble, boly and just in every bumss heart. Onoe it was thought thet po such enter prise ever before strred the world s Anb. Siavery. Till thet bour, probably ne other oo terprine ever did o ever oou1d present ronge claims. A m i tGonal., responsible, immortal, to be seined stolen, sold inte brute siavery, ass brute. as beast, and his children afte him through e c o mule and onttle reding were oaied o t same town, on the same farin. by the same moans, and for the same purposss, by demo orets and. Fepublio, y churc mee descons and ministor, and hy women, . well s by mon. the yte upported y state, sanctified by the shurch beid and gunrard

by the swords and bayonets of the one, an haflowed by the sermons snd sacraments of the other for almont a contury, and unti the wietims hed inored to o miio, i demoorstic and christian oountry on the gioe surcly the world never hed witnened so ub a orusede as that first wet on foot by Elizsbe Heyrick to rid bumanity of this its dirent ourne

Ours was the most guilty nation on the giobs. and its punishment has been in some dogree proportonste to ts guil. And the prios pd for liberty was mot 490 dear. No price is to0 gret to pay for liberty. What is hfe without t" And yet t is beld, no mstter whe firet . or to whom ssd. thet all that s man heth will he give for his life. What, then, sbouid be pot give for liberty? The French Revoluton, with all its terrors and massores. was worth al t oost. The Ameriosn Revolution acheved much History mow forgives, almost forgts. failures, even thew terrors. in remenbranoe of the good they wrought. So., t90, of our latest wer. It was frightinl m oont of hise and tressure snd in weslth, too, dearer than hfe or gold, but the whole mation to-day rejoioes that the curse of chettel sisvery is po more. And our sorpture mow might resd. s written in blood on s thousnd battie-e. A that a maton bath will it give for liberty

And yet to woman. as woman, kitberto. blood and life sacrifioe bas been of no efer Taxstion without representation was as grie ous to the Marths Washingtons of the United States after the Revolution snd under Pre sident Washington, as to the George Washingtons before the Revolution under Geoorge HL. in the British oolomes. 1 men were taned without representation before the batles of Bunker Hill and Brandywine. women beve been ever simoe, and are tawed . I, under and punished by lsws wthe making of which they bad no vote, mo woie, a7 women wve unto this bous in our bossted and bossting re public

1f the ballot is imwninle, mpl t the security of the frend man in the Tull enjoyment of bis freedom and pursuit of bappies. must be equsily w to the freed woman whe i to hve under the wame governmeont, be t equally for its support. obey the me lwa. o suffor the seme penalires

And what is true of the colored women this respoct. is alike troe of every wom in the mation high, low. rich. poor, lenrned. ignoret. virtuous. vicous. all sre equally proscribed until the mosnest. mowt bruts man oeig suprome. over the moblet women whe ar p The verod ineguey. tricked out in whitetopped boots. pols n and cookdes bat. with ot p r ont pi mioire Centr Park. . i the ovr of Presiaont irt. wh e her weslth. wirtue. enlture andp menta, 1 but the por o the pooie tht ses t her iAnd On p lity eciare they are w 1t is owen i Obie women h Women Sufge inture. Ne wonde row fors and revilor i shop aoo, tht womes don Eno ot t sobs.

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