c, and with momentous verdicts
the prizes of the struggle would not tend to destroy the
deference and delicacy with which it is the pride of our ruder
sex to treat her, is a matter certainly worthy of her
consideration. But the important question is, what effect the
presence of women as barristers in our courts would have upon the
administration of justice, and the question can be satisfactorily
answered only in the light of experience.

If the Legislature shall choose to remove the existing barriers
and authorize us to issue licenses equally to men and women, we
shall cheerfully obey, trusting to the good sense and sound
judgment of women themselves to seek those departments of the
practice in which they can labor without reasonable objection.

Application denied.

The opinion will be best understood by reading our arguments
first, and knowing all the points made before the court. We have
not the space to review the opinion in this issue, but shall do
so at some future day, and will simply say now, that what the
decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred
Scott case was to the rights of negroes as citizens of the United
States, this decision is to the political rights of women in
Illinois--annihilation.

CAN A WOMAN PRACTICE LAW OR HOLD ANY OFFICE IN ILLINOIS?

_Full Report of the Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Illinois
and the Supreme Court of the United States, upon the application
of Myra Bradwell to be admitted to the Bar._

On pp. 145, 146, and 147 of this volume, we gave the proceedings
in full in the Supreme Court of this State upon our application
to be admitted to practice law, including the opinion of Judge
Lawrence, the present learned Chief-Justice of that tribunal,
denying the application on the sole ground that a woman could not
be admitted to the bar or hold any office in Illinois. As soon
after this opinion was announced as we could obtain a certified
copy of the record, we placed it in the hands of the Hon. Matt.
H. Carpenter, one of the ablest constitutional lawyers in the
nation, with a view of obtaining a writ of error from the Supreme
Court of the United States. Mr. Carpenter prepared and presented
our petition for a writ of error, together with the record. The
following is the