drawn in question the validity of a statute
of, or an authority exercised under, said State, on the
ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution,
treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision was
in favor of such their validity; or wherein was drawn in
question the construction of a clause of the Constitution,
or of a treaty, or statute of, or commission held under, the
United States, and the decision was against the title,
right, privilege, or exemption, specially set up or claimed
under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute,
or commission, a manifest error hath happened, to the great
damage of the said Myra Bradwell, as by her complaint
appears. We being willing that error, if any hath been,
should be duly corrected, and full and speedy justice done
to the parties aforesaid in this behalf, do command you, if
judgment be therein given, that then under your seal,
distinctly and openly, you send the record and proceedings
aforesaid, with all things concerning the same, to the
Supreme Court of the United States, together with this writ,
so that you have the same at Washington on the first Monday
of December next, in the said Supreme Court, to be then and
there held, that the record and proceedings aforesaid being
inspected, the said Supreme Court may cause further to be
done therein to correct that error what of right, and
according to the laws and custom of the United States,
should be done.

Witness the Honorable Salmon P. Chase, Chief-Justice of the
said Supreme Court, the first Monday of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

D. W. MIDDLETON,
_Clerk of the Supreme Court of the U. S._

Issued 23d August, 1870. Allowed by me,

SAM. F. MILLER, _Asso. Jus. Sup. Court, U. S._

While these suits for the recognition of the political rights of women
were pending, a contest of a different character took place in
Illinois. Mrs. Myra Bradwell, editor of the Chicago _Legal News_,
applied for admission to the bar of that State, and was refused. She
made this denial of her civil rights a test case