An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting, at the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872, and on the Trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh, and William B. Hall, the Inspectors of Election by Whom Her Vote was Received.Anonymous
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An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting, at the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872, and on the Trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh, and William B. Hall, the Inspectors of Election by Whom Her Vote was Received.
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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Election law -- United States; Women -- Suffrage -- United States
"A measure which makes at once four millions of people voters, is
indeed a measure of greater importance than any act of the kind
from the foundation of the Government to the present time."
How could _four_ millions negroes be made voters if _two_ millions were
not included?
The California State Republican convention said:
"Among the many practical and substantial triumphs of the
principles achieved by the Republican party during the past twelve
years, it enumerated with pride and pleasure, the prohibiting of
any State from abridging the privileges of any citizen of the
Republic, the declaring the civil and political equality of every
citizen, and the establishing all these principles in the federal
constitution by amendments thereto, as the permanent law."
Benjamin F. Butler, in a recent letter to me, said:
"I do not believe anybody in Congress doubts that the Constitution
authorizes the right of women to vote, precisely as it authorizes
trial by jury and many other like rights guaranteed to citizens."
And again, General Butler said:
"It is not laws we want; there are plenty of laws--good enough,
too. Administrative ability to enforce law is the great want of the
age, in this country especially. Everybody talks of law, law. If
everybody would insist on the enforcement of law, the government
would stand on a firmer basis, and questions would settle
themselves."
And it is upon this just interpretation of the United States
Constitution that our National Woman Suffrage Association which
celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the woman's rights movement
in New York on the 6th of May next, has based all its arguments and
action the past five years.
We no longer petition Legislature or Congress to give us the right to
vote. We appeal to the women everywhere to exercise their too long
neglected "citizen's right to vote." We appeal to the inspectors of
election everywhere to receive the votes of all United States citizens
as it is their duty to do. We appeal to United States commissioners and
marshals to arrest the inspectors who reject the names and votes of
United States citizens, as it is their duty to do, and leave those alone
who, like our eighth ward inspectors, perform their duties faithfully
and well.
We ask the juries to fail to return verdicts of "guilty" against honest,
law-abiding, tax-paying United States citizens for offering their votes
at our elections. Or against intelligent, worthy young men, inspectors
of elections, for receiving and counting such citizens' votes.
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