eason why
those who do now see and feel that necessity should have that
claim denied. "Time has no more connection with, nor influence
upon principle, than principle has upon time. The wrong which
began a thousand years ago, is as much a wrong as if it began
to-day; and the right which originates to-day, is as much a right
as if it had the sanction of a thousand years. Time, with respect
to principles, is an eternal now. It has no operation upon them,
it changes nothing of their nature and qualities." (Paine's
Political Works, vol. 2, p. 328--Dissertation on Government.)

We are fully conscious that the subject upon which we have
written is by no means exhausted; the point, especially in
reference to bills of attainder, being wholly untouched. But the
limits of a single article will not admit of a full discussion of
the subject. Indeed, a treatise upon suffrage is one of the wants
of the profession. We leave it, however, to the candid judgment
of our readers, if we have not fully demonstrated the right of
Federal suffrage to be a necessary privilege of a citizen of the
United States, and, according to the court's own admission, such
being the case, the plaintiff was entitled to the relief sought.

Thus closed woman's struggle for National protection of her civil and
political rights under the XIV. Amendment. In the case of Myra
Bradwell, which was commenced in September, 1869, two years before the
others, Chief-Justice Chase, one of the best and wisest Judges that
ever honored the American bench, dissented from the opinion of the
Supreme Court: that the fact of United States citizenship did not
secure to woman the right to practice law, and that a married woman
rested under a special disability in regard to her civil rights, thus
sustaining the action of Illinois in refusing to admit Mrs. Bradwell
to the bar of that State.

The decision in the case of Mrs. Minor, that the political rights of
women were wholly under the control of their respective States was
still more emphatic and discouraging. Had Judge Chase lived, we have
every reason to believe that in this case too, he would have
dissented, and that his opinion would have had great weight in the
general discussion. Although defeated at every point, woman's claim as
a citizen of the United States to the Federal franchise is placed upon
record in the highest court of the