onal
District of the State of New York, said first election district of
said eighth ward, of said city of Rochester, being then and there a
part of said twenty-ninth Congressional District of the State of New
York, did knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully vote for a candidate
for Representative in the Congress of the United States for the State
of New York at large, and for Representative in the Congress of the
United States for said twenty-ninth Congressional District, without
having a lawful right to vote in said election district (the said
Susan B. Anthony being then and there a person of the female sex), as
she, the said Susan B. Anthony then and there well knew, contrary to
the form of the statute of the United States of America in such case
made and provided, and against the peace of the United States of
America and their dignity.

RICHARD CROWLEY,
_Attorney of the United States for the Northern District
of New York._

(Endorsed). Jan. 24, 1873. RICHARD CROWLEY,
Pleads not guilty. _U. S. Attorney_.

[172] See Appendix.

[173] See Appendix.

[174] Thousands of copies were published in pamphlet form, with the
Court report of the trial, and circulated throughout the country.

[175] See Appendix.

[176] To the same effect see former decisions in Massachusetts: Coffin
_vs._ Coffin, 4 Mass., 25; Com. _vs._ Knapp, 10 Pic., 496; and see
also State _vs._ Snow, 18 Maine, 346; Doss _vs._ Com., 1 Grattan, 557;
Peo. _vs._ McFall, 1 Wheeler Crim. Rec., 108, note; Holder _vs._ The
State, 5 Georgia, 443; State _vs._ Allen, 1 McCord, 525; State _vs._
Jones, 5 Alabama, 666; Armstrong _vs._ The State, 4 Blackford, 247;
Patterson _vs._ The State, 2 English, 59.

[177] Gibbons _vs._ Ogden, 9th Wheaton, 221, Ch. J. Marshall. Ogden
_vs._ Saunder, 12 Wheaton, 332, Ch. J. Marshall.

[178] More recent investigation shows that this clause was originated
by Mr. Jefferson in 1784. See _The Nation_ for May 4, 1882, _and
authorities there referred to_. See Bancroft's "History of the United
States." Vol. II, p. 115.

CHAPTER XXVI.

AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.

Circular Letter--Cleveland Convention--Association
Completed--Henry Ward Beecher, President--Convention in Steinway
Hall, New York--George William Curtis Speaks-