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Christel Malden
Again it is said: "The women who make the demand are few in number,and their feelings and opinions are abnormal, and therefore of noweight in considering the aggregate judgment on the question." Thenumber is larger than appears on the surface, for the fear of publicridicule, and the loss of private favors from those who shelter, feed,and clothe them, withhold many from declaring their opinions anddemanding their rights. The ignorance and indifference of the majorityof women, as to their status as citizens of a republic, is notremarkable, for history shows that the masses of all oppressedclasses, in the most degraded conditions, have been stolid andapathetic until partial success had crowned the faith and enthusiasmof the few.
In 1849, Die Frauen Zeitung, edited by Mathilde Franceska Anneke,was published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1850, Lydia Jane Piersonedited a column of the Lancaster (Pa.) Gazette; Mrs. Prewettedited the Yazoo (Miss.) Whig, in Mississippi; and Mrs. Sheldonthe Dollar Weekly. In 1851, Julia Ward Howe edited, with herhusband, The Commonwealth, a newspaper dedicated to free thought,and zealous for the liberty of the slave. In 1851, Mrs. C. C. Bentleywas editor of the Concord Free Press, in Vermont, and ElizabethAldrich of the Genius of Liberty, in Ohio. In 1852, Anna W. Spencerstarted the Pioneer and Woman's Advocate, in Providence, R. I. Itsmotto was, "Liberty, Truth, Temperance, Equality." It was publishedsemi-monthly, and advocated a better education for woman, a higherprice for her labor, the opening of new industries. It was theearliest paper established in the United States for the advocacy ofWoman's Rights. In 1853, The Una, a paper devoted to theenfranchisement of woman, owned and edited by Paulina Wright Davis,was first published in Providence, but afterward removed to Boston,where Caroline H. Dall became associate editor. In 1855, Anna McDowellfounded The Woman's Advocate in Philadelphia, a paper in which, likethat of Mrs. Anna Franklin, the owner, editor, and compositors wereall women. About this period many well-known literary women fillededitorial chairs. Grace Greenwood started a child's paper called TheLittle Pilgrim; Mrs. Bailey conducted the Era, an anti-slaverypaper, in Washington, D. C., after her husband's death.