all
persons who have been or may be convicted of bribery, or
larceny, or of any infamous crime, and for depriving every
person who shall make, or become directly or indirectly
interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of
any election, from the right to vote at such election.

How humiliating! For respectable and law-abiding women and "men
of color," to be thrust outside the pale of political
consideration with those convicted of bribery, larceny, and
infamous crime; and worse than all, with those who bet on
elections--for how lost to all sense of honor must that "white
male citizen" be who publicly violates a wise law to which he has
himself given an intelligent consent. We are ashamed, Honored
Sirs, of our company. The Mohammedan forbids a "fool, a madman,
or a woman" to call the hours for prayers. If it were not for the
invidious classification, we might hope it was tenderness rather
than contempt that moved the Mohammedan to excuse woman from so
severe a duty. But for the ballot, which falls like a flake of
snow upon the sod, we can find no such excuse for New York
legislators. Art. 2, Sec. 3, should be read and considered by the
women of the State, as it gives them a glimpse of the modes of
life and surroundings of some of the privileged classes of "white
male citizens" who may go to the polls:

For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have
gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or
absence while employed in the service of the United States;
nor while engaged in navigating the waters of the State, or
of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a
student of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any
alms-house or other asylum, at public expense; nor while
confined in any public prison.

What an unspeakable privilege to have that precious jewel--the
human soul--in a setting of _white manhood_, that thus it can
pass through the prison, the asylum, the alms-house, the muddy
waters of the Erie canal, and come forth undimmed to appear at
the ballot-box at the earliest opportunity, there to bury its
crimes, its poverty, its moral and physical deformities, all
beneath the rights, privileges, and immunities of a citizen