Supreme Court of a Republican judiciary now declares, _after_ the
war, _after_ the constitutional amendments, that federal suffrage
does not exist and never had an existence in the constitution, it
follows that the South has the right to regulate and control all
of the questions arising upon suffrage in the several States
without any interference on the part of an authority which
declares it has no jurisdiction. An able writer has said:

All injustice at last works out a loss. The great ledger of
nations does not report a good balance for injustice. It has
always met fearful losses. The irrepealable law of justice
will, sooner or later, grind a nation to powder if it fail
to establish that equilibrium of allegiance and protection
which is the essential end of all government. Woe to that
nation which thinks lightly of the duties it owes to its
citizens and imagines that governments are not bound by
moral laws.

It was the tax on tea--woman's drink prerogative--which
precipitated the rebellion of 1776. To allay the irritation of
the colonies, all taxes were rescinded save that on tea, which
was left to indicate King George's dominion. But our
revolutionary fathers and mothers said, "No; the tax is paltry,
but the principle is great"; and Eve, as usual, pointed the moral
for Adam's benefit. A most suggestive picture, one which aroused
the intensest patriotism of the colonies, was that of a woman
pinioned by her arms to the ground by a British peer, with a
British red-coat holding her with one hand and with the other
forcibly thrusting down her throat the contents of a tea-pot,
which she heroically spewed back in his face; while the figure of
Justice, in the distance, wept over this prostrate Liberty. Now,
gentlemen, we might well adopt a similar representation. Here is
Miss Smith of Glastonbury, Conn., whose cows have been sold every
year by the government, contending for the same principle as our
forefathers--that of resistance to taxation without
representation. We might have a picture of a cow, with an
American tax-collector at the horns, a foreign-born assessor at
the heels, forcibly selling the birthright of an American
citizen, while Julia and Abby Smith, in the background, with
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