ed States paid the woman whom he forbade to
open her mouth in his august presence, in his little court, so
much consideration as to pass an act opening to her the doors of
the Supreme Court of the United States. All honor to the brave
woman, who by her own unaided efforts thus achieved honor,
fortune and fame--the just rewards of her own true
worth.--[_Havre Republican_, Havre de Grace, Maryland.

ENTER PORTIA.--An act of congress was not necessary to authorize
women to be lawyers, if their legal acquirements fitted them for
that vocation; nor was it necessary to state, as an expression of
opinion by the national legislature, that some women are so fully
qualified for the legal profession that no barriers should be
permitted to stand in their way. It was needed simply as a key
whereby the hitherto locked door of the Supreme Court of the
United States may be opened if a woman lawyer, with the usual
credentials, should knock thereon. That is all; and there is no
new question opened for profitless debate. The ability of some
women to be lawyers is like the ability of others to make
bread--it rests upon the facts. There is no room for elaborate
argument to prove either their fitness or unfitness for legal
studies, so long as in Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, the
District of Columbia, Iowa and North Carolina there are women in
more or less successful practice and repute. * * * Nowhere are
these great attributes of civilization and regulated
liberty--law, conservatism, justice, equity and mercy in the
administration of human affairs put in broader light or truer,
than they are by the words that Shakespeare puts in the mouth of
this woman jurist.--[_Public Ledger_, Philadelphia, February 12.

When congress recently passed a law allowing women to practice in
the Supreme Court, it was not a subject of any special or eager
comment. A woman who is a lawyer sent flowers to the desks of the
members who voted for the bill, and before they had faded,
comment was at an end. The home was still safe and the country
was not in peril. It was one of the questions which had settled
itself and was a foregone conclusion. * * * United States Senator
Edmunds of Vermont, has fallen into disfavor with the ladies for
voting against the above bill.--[From John W. Forney's