ts
ministers to make her a martyr.... We write in no spirit of
vindictiveness, nor even in one of antagonism toward Miss
Anthony; but in the name of justice we are called upon to protest
against the unseemly proceeding which persecutes those excellent
young men and hesitates to attack this woman, who stands as a
representative of what she regards a great reform, and in its
advocacy shrinks not from any of the terrors the law may have in
store for her. Mr. District Attorney, it is your duty to arrest
Miss Anthony; to cross swords with an antagonist worthy of your
steel. Your present action looks ignoble, and is unworthy of you
or of the office you fill.

More than a week elapsed before the arrival of President Grant's
pardon papers, and during that time hundreds of the people of
Rochester visited the "boys" in jail, and the best of dinners were
furnished them daily by the fourteen women voters of the Eighth Ward.

VIRGINIA L. MINOR'S PETITION

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, DECEMBER TERM, 1872.

_St. Louis County, ss.:_ Virginia L. Minor and Francis Minor, her
husband, Plaintiffs, _vs._ Reese Happersett, Defendant.

The plaintiff, Virginia L. Minor (with whom is joined her
husband, Francis Minor, as required by the law of Missouri),
states, that under the Constitution and law of Missouri, all
persons wishing to vote at any election, must previously have
been registered in the manner pointed out by law, this being a
condition precedent to the exercise of the elective franchise.

That on the fifteenth day of October, 1872 (one of the days fixed
by law for the registration of voters), and long prior thereto,
she was a native-born, free white citizen of the United States,
and of the State of Missouri, and on the day last mentioned she
was over the age of twenty-one years.

That on said day, the plaintiff was a resident of the thirteenth
election district of the city and county of St. Louis, in the
State of Missouri, and had been so residing in said county and
election district, for the entire period of twelve months and
more, immediately preceding said fifteenth day of October, 1872,
and for more than twenty years had been and is a tax-paying,
law-abiding citizen of the county and State aforesaid.

That on said last mentioned day, the d