heir consideration.

There are expressions in the dissenting opinions that upon the
rules of interpretation applied to any other subject than the
rights of women would indicate that the minority were fully
prepared to admit that the recent amendments to the
Constitution--the new _magna charta_ as one of the justices
styles them--recognized the right of suffrage in women. Justice
Field says: "That only is a free government, in the American
sense of the term, under which the inalienable right of every
citizen to pursue his happiness is unrestrained, except by just,
equal, and impartial laws."

Justice Bradley says: "The States have not now, if they ever had,
any power to restrict their citizenship to any classes or
persons. A citizen of the United States has a perfect
constitutional right to go to and reside in any State he chooses,
and to claim citizenship therein, and an equality of rights with
every other citizen, and the whole power of the nation is pledged
to sustain him in that right. He is not bound to cringe to any
superior, or to pray for any act of grace, as a means of enjoying
all the rights and privileges enjoyed by other citizens."

Such language on any other subject would be conclusive, but the
crust of custom and prejudice is hard and thick and strong, and
the heat of the lava of regeneration may not yet have weakened
it sufficiently to allow of its destruction and removal.

We will try to have our cases fully prepared for argument when
reached in the call of the calendar, which will be about next
January, and after doing our best in them will have to trust for
success if not in this in some other effort.

Very truly yours, FRANCIS MILLER.

Miss Anthony gave the incidents of her arrest and trial to an immense
audience in the evening, moving them alternately to laughter and
indignation. At the close of this convention a large reception was
given to the friends of woman suffrage by Dr. Clemence Lozier at her
hospitable home in 34th street, New York. Her spacious parlors were
crowded until a late hour. The occasion was enlivened with music,
readings, and short, spicy speeches.

The National Woman Suffrage Association held its fifth convention at
Washington in January, 1874. Before the arrival of the principal
actors, the hall was fil