other ladies for registration, two or three months hence, when
the time comes, here. (Applause.) If they are not registered, I
propose to try the strength of the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia, composed of five intelligent gentlemen, and known
not to be conservatives on some questions, whatever they will
prove to be on this, and see whether they will issue a mandamus.
If they won't, I will take the case to the Supreme Court of the
United States, and one of the present judges of that Court, who
is not pre-eminently in favor of what is called woman's rights,
recently passed upon this XIV. Amendment. In the case of the
"Live Stock Dealers" et al. _vs._ "The Crescent City Live Stock
Company," in the circuit court of the United States, at New
Orleans, Judge Bradley, of the Supreme Court of the United
States, said of the XIV. Amendment:

"It is possible that those who framed the article were not
themselves aware of the far-reaching character of its terms.
They may have had in mind but one particular phase of social
and political wrong, which they desired to redress. Yet, if
the amendment, as framed and expressed, does, in fact, bear
a broader meaning, and does extend its protecting shield
over those who were never thought of when it was conceived
and put in form, and does reach such social evils which were
never before prohibited by Constitutional Amendment, it is
to be presumed that the American people, in giving it their
imprimatur, understood what they were doing, and meant to
decree what has, in fact, been done.

"It embraces much more. The 'privileges and immunities'
secured by the original Constitution were only such as each
State gave to its own citizens. Each was prohibited from
discriminating in favor of its own citizens, and against the
citizens of other States.

"But the XIV. Amendment prohibits any State from abridging
the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the United
States, whether its own citizens or any others. It not
merely requires equality of privileges, but it demands that
the privileges and immunities of all citizens shall be
absolutely unabridged, unimpaired."--_Mrs. Bradwell's Legal