hant majority.

I went to Southern Oregon in 1879, and while sojourning in
Jacksonville was assailed with a shower of eggs (since known in
that section as "Jacksonville arguments") and was also burned in
effigy on a principal street after the sun went down.
Jacksonville is an old mining town, beautifully situated in the
heart of the Southern Oregon mountains, and has no connection
with the outside world except through the daily stagecoaches. Its
would-be leading men are old miners or refugees from the
bushwhacking district whence they were driven by the civil war.
The taint of slavery is yet upon them and the methods of
border-ruffians are their hearts' delight. It is true that there
are many good people among them, but they are often over-awed by
the lawless crowd whose very instincts lead them to oppose a
republican form of government. But that raid of the outlaws
proved a good thing for the woman suffrage movement. It aroused
the better classes, and finally shamed the border ruffians by its
own reaection. When I returned to Portland a perfect ovation
awaited me. Hundreds of men and women who had not before allied
themselves with the movement made haste to do so. The newspapers
were filled with severe denunciations of the mob, and
"Jackson-villains," as the perpetrators of the outrage were
styled, grew heartily disgusted over their questionable glory.

When the legislature met in the autumn of 1880 it was decided by
the Woman Suffrage Association that we could "raise the blockade"
and encourage agitation in the work by consenting to an attempt
to amend the State constitution. Pursuant to this decision a
resolution was offered in the Senate by Hon. W. C. Fulton of
Clatsop, and in the House by Hon. Lee Laughlin, which, after
considerable discussion _pro_ and _con_ in which I was graciously
invited to participate on the floor of both Houses, was passed by
the requisite two-thirds majority. The result was considered a
triumph for the cause. A grand ratification jubilee was held in
the opera-house in honor of the event, and resolutions of thanks
to the lawmakers were passed, accompanied by many expressions of
faith in the legislation of the future.

In the meantime the work was going steadily on in Washington
territory, my own labors bein