tion for habeas corpus,
the bill of indictment--not one of them had a feminine pronoun
printed in it; but, to make them applicable to me, the Clerk of
the Court made a little carat at the left of "he" and placed an
"s" over it, thus making she out of he. Then the letters "is"
were scratched out, the little carat placed under and "er" over,
to make her out of his, and I insist if government officials may
thus manipulate the pronouns to tax, fine, imprison, and hang
women, women may take the same liberty with them to secure to
themselves their right to a voice in the government.

So long as any classes of men were denied their right to vote,
the government made a show of consistency, by exempting them from
taxation. When a property qualification of $250 was required of
black men in New York, they were not compelled to pay taxes, so
long as they were content to report themselves worth less than
that sum; but the moment the black man died, and his property
fell to his widow, the black woman's name would be put on the
assessor's list, and she be compelled to pay taxes on the same
property exempted to her husband. The same is true of ministers
in New York. So long as the minister lives, he is exempted from
taxation on $1,500 of property, but the moment the breath goes
out of his body, his widow's name will go down on the assessor's
list, and she will have to pay taxes on the $1,500. So much for
the special legislation in favor of women. In all the penalties
and burdens of the government (except the military), women are
reckoned as citizens, equally with men. Also, in all the
privileges and immunities, save those of the jury-box and
ballot-box, the two fundamental privileges on which rest all the
others. The United States government not only taxes, fines,
imprisons, and hangs women, but it allows them to pre-empt lands,
register ships, and take out passport and naturalization papers.
Not only does the law permit single women and widows to the right
of naturalization, but Section 2 says:

A married woman may be naturalized without the concurrence
of her husband. (I wonder the fathers were not afraid of
creating discord in the families of foreigners); and again:
When an alien, having complied with the law, and declared
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