The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-22
The Voting of the Ladies in Rochester,
New York,

new 1oTK,
The following are the different ac-
counts regarding the registering and vOt-
ing of the ladies in Rochester as given
by several of the local papers:
Citizenship no more carries the right
to vote than it carries the power to fly
to the moon. If it did, women would
have had Just the same right to vote
before the adoption of the fourteenth
amendment that they have now; for
they were citizens before, rs were, and
are children.
Even male citizenship does not carry
the right to vote. Thus, in the State of
Rhode Island, which is Republican by
two to one, male citizens of the United
States and of the State, who are not
native born, are denied the elective
franchise. And as the Woodruff wom-
an-now in Ludlow street Jail in New
York for the most obscene and disgust
ing publication that ever shocked any
cOmmunity-and Miss Anthony, and
Others, petitioned the House of Repre-
sentatives, these male citizens of Rhode
Island petitioned the United States SEN
ate, and were answered in an elaborate
report from the Judiciary Committe of
that body that their citizenship gave
them no right, or color of right, what
ever, to vote, or to exercise political
functions of any kind. The ''privileges
and immunities Of citizens mentioned
in sec. ,, art. 4, and again in sec. ], art.
ii, of the Constitution of the United
States, refer to ciUiL rights, not to pOlai-
cat privileges. The civil rights of the
citizens are natural, absolute, and equal.
The political privileges of the citizen
are conventional, discriminatory, and
unequal. If these women in the Eighth
Ward offer to vote they should be chal-
lenged, and if they take the Oaths and
the Inspectors receive and depOsite their
ballots, they should all be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.-ROchesteF
Union lDem.]
About nine o'clock this morning Su-
san B. Anthony and eight other ladies
went to the Polls of the First District of
the Eighth Ward and rendered their
ballots to the Inspectors.
The votes were challenged, the oath
was administered and accepted. The
votes were then deposited in the several
boxes. At q later hour eight other
females who had previously registered
in that district repaired to the polls and
deposited their votes.
| his Is not the nrst instance IN the
/ United States in which females have
voted. We understand that lady in
Detroit has voted at two successive cleo
tions. 1t is safe to say that in the event
that the votes east by women to-day in
this city should determine the result be-
tween any two candidates, the matter
will be taken into the courts Union
and AdUcrtiSer.
The most novel incident oil the day
was witnessed at the Eighth Ward
polls. Here sixteen women voted, the
first being Miss B. Anthony, whose
vote was challenged, but she took the
oath, and her ballot was then received
Those who came later voted unques-
toned. AS far as we learned, these
ladies were subjected to no insults Ol
rudeness. Fifteen of them voted fol
Grant and Wilson, and one for Horace
Greeley. Seven of them came TO the
polls together in the morning, and the
rest during the afternoon. In the First
and Third Wards several ladies who
had been registered attempted to vote
but were not allowed 10 do sO.-CHT0Hi-
cTo