the privileges and immunities of her citizenship, which
the State can not by its laws or Constitution abridge.

And on page 170:

If the right of suffrage is one of the necessary privileges
of a citizen of the United States, then the Constitution and
laws of Missouri confining it to men are in violation of the
Constitution of the United States, as amended, and
consequently void. The direct question is therefore
presented, whether all citizens are necessarily voters. The
Constitution does not define the privileges and immunities
of citizens. For that definition we must look elsewhere. In
this case we need not determine what they are, but only
whether suffrage is necessarily one of them. It certainly is
nowhere made so in express terms. The United States has no
voters in the State, of its own creation. The elective
officers of the United States are all elected directly or
indirectly by State voters.

We had supposed that if there was any question that now, at
least, might be regarded as finally settled, both by the late
appeal to arms, and by the Constitutional Amendments, it was that
of the subordination of State to National authority, over any and
all subjects in which the rights and privileges of citizens of
the United States are involved. If the amendments do not cover
this ground, then they are worse than useless. And yet this
decision is a blow at all that constitutes us a Nation. To
declare that the United States has no voters--that its officers
are all elected by State voters, is to completely reverse the
order of things, and subordinate the citizens of the United
States to State authority. It will be observed that this decision
goes far beyond the ground hitherto and ordinarily claimed by the
advocates of what are called "States' Rights."

It has usually been supposed that the States possessed the
authority to regulate the exercise of the franchise by the
Federal voter, but never before was the right itself denied as
appurtenant to Federal citizenship. But now the franchise itself
is declared to be non-existent--Federal officers are elected by
State voters. The subject itself is wholly withdrawn from Federal
supervision and control. Even the amendments