ontrol over the suffrage.
While by Circuit Court decisions, Supreme Court decisions, and
decisions of courts of lesser degree, theoretically denying its
control over the suffrage, the United States in many ways besides
those mentioned, practically acknowledges its possession of this
right. In the case of Miss Anthony and the fourteen other women
of Rochester, N. Y., who voted in 1872, the great State of New
York took no action at all in the matter; it was the General
Government which thrust itself forward and took up the question.
If the United States has no control over the suffrage then Miss
Anthony's trial was a clear interference of the United States
with the rights of States. And so great was this interference, it
is believed the judge appointed to try her case left Washington
with his verdict in his pocket already written.

Let none of my audience forget the various great trials of
woman's right to vote under the XIV. Amendment, especially that
of Mrs. Virginia L. Minor, who prosecuted the Inspector of
Election in St. Louis for refusing to receive her vote, and whose
case, coming finally for adjudication to the Supreme Court of the
United States, decision was rendered against her on the plea that
the ballot was under control of the respective States, and that
the United States has no voters in the States of its own
creation; which I have shown to be an ignorant, imbecile, and
false plea. Neither let them forget that of Susan B. Anthony,
decided against her on the ground that she was a woman at the
time she voted. If States have the sole control of the suffrage,
there was interference in the rights of the State of New York by
her trial; and if United States citizens of any class have a
right to be protected in the use of the ballot, then the United
States very flagrantly and tyrannously interfered in Miss
Anthony's individual right as a citizen of the United States.

In the near future these trials of women under the XIV. Amendment
will be looked upon as the great State trials of the world;
trials on which a republic, founded upon the acknowledged rights
of all persons to self-government, through its courts decided
against the right of one half of its citizens on the ground that
sex was a barrier and a crime.

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