[274] Ms., Diary, Oct. 13, 1871. [275] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 403. [276] Ms., Diary, Dec. 15, 1871. [277] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 396. [278] Ms., Diary, Jan. 2, 1872. [279] _Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly_, Jan. 23, 1873. [280] Harper, _Anthony_, I, pp. 410-411. [281] _Ibid._, p. 413. [282] Ms., Diary, May 8, 10, 12, 1872. [283] Harper, _Anthony_, I, pp. 416-417. [284] Ms., Diary, Sept. 21, 1872. Lucy Stone wrote in the _Woman's Journal_, July 27, 1872, "We are glad that the wing of the movement to which these ladies belong have decided to cast in their lot with the Republican party. If they had done so sooner, it would have been better for all concerned...." [285] _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, p. 519. The Republicans financed a paper, _Woman's Campaign_, edited by Helen Barnard, which published some of Susan's speeches and which Susan for a time hoped to convert into a woman suffrage paper. [286] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 422. [287] _Ibid._ TESTING THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT Susan preached militancy to women throughout the presidential campaign of 1872, urging them to claim their rights under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments by registering and voting in every state in the Union. Even before Francis Minor had called her attention to the possibilities offered by these amendments, she had followed with great interest a similar effort by Englishwomen who, in 1867 and 1868, had attempted to prove that the "ancient legal rights of females" were still valid and entitled women property holders to vote for representatives in Parliament, and who claimed that the word "man" in Parliamentary statutes should be interpreted to include women. In the case of the 5,346 householders of Manchester, the court held that "every woman is personally incapable" in a legal sense.[288] This legal contest had been fully reported in _The Revolution_, and disappointing as the verdict was, Susan looked upon this attempt to establish justice as an indication of a great awakening and uprising among women.