P. P.

OCT. 7, 1869.

DEAR REVOLUTION:--Pardon a few plain words from an earnest friend
of human suffrage.

Your course opposing the Fifteenth Amendment and Political
(combined with moral) Temperance action, seems to me absolutely
suicidal, and must and will logically leave you to the tender
mercies of negro-drivers or haters and rumsellers and their
sympathizers. How much human suffrage can hope for at their
hands, judge ye!

J. K. PHOENIX.

P. S.--To say I am utterly astonished and grieved at _The
Revolution_ therein but feebly expresses my feelings. But we
shall see what you will effect by it.

_The Revolution_ criticises, "opposes," the fifteenth amendment,
not for what it is, but for what it is not. Not because it
enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all
women, black and white. It is not the little good it proposes,
but the greater evil it perpetuates that we deprecate. It is not
that in the abstract we do not rejoice that black men are to
become the equals of white men, but that we deplore the fact that
two millions black women, hitherto the political and social
equals of the men by their side, are to become subjects, slaves
of these men. Our protest is not that all men are lifted out of
the degradation of disfranchisement, but that all women are left
in. _The Revolution_ and the National Woman's Suffrage
Association make woman's suffrage their test of loyalty, not
negro suffrage, not Maine law or prohibition. Do you believe
women should vote? is the one and only question in our catechism.

In this period of reconstruction the Woman Suffrage Associations sent
their first delegates to National political conventions. The
appointment of Susan B. Anthony to the Democratic Presidential
Convention was a new and unlooked-for sensation.

_The Revolution_, NEW YORK, July 9, 1868.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY IN TAMMANY HALL.--Our readers will remember,
some time ago, it was announced in all the daily journals that
Susan B. Anthony was appointed a delegate to the Democratic
Convention, to represent the woman's suffrage movement in this
country. She accordingly appl