Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-13
FOl the Green MOuntaln fetfnan
Iudre Hunts Decision Once More,


vv EDITOR Suffer me to appear in the
r.r.s,y e. this once, and will retire. 1t
we now agree that the fourteenth
-..,5uent mAkes lemal es, born or Datur
.zed in the Unted States, citizens; and ii
Ion. then voters. lE also declares that
St.te shall Id ke or eniorce any law
=, sbri5,e the privileges or immunities OF
~ the UuIted States" That of course
..u,l. abrJe ties or repeals all laws that
- ,r,hib ted lem Iles from voting, and also
r-.b.d. anv State enacting prohibitory laws.
R,,it is clai mel that the fifteenth amend
-, by Implication, gives the States right
what tie loulteenth amendment for
do r,en to do. Well suppose L grant it
,rt,, then Why evidently this, if the State
,s Nsw York had. subs, quent to the adop
..,u of the fifteenth amendment, enacted a
1.,, (,iultting, If course, all her citizens TO
vote on The question: making it penal Of
f.ose for d female cit zen to vote, then al
-,, criticism. 50 far as Judge Eunt is Con-
armed lalls polntless at his feet. Let us see:
the fifteenth amendment declares that the
-,,bt of i lzens of the Uuited States to vote
shall not be dsnied or abridged by the
United States, or by any State. on account
of rae, col IT, OF previous condition oil serVi-
,nde Now tie inference claimed for It is,
tina. for Ut ler causes than those specihe1, as
ssv for instance, a State, or the . United States
nav 90 hat the fourteenth amendment ex-
rressy declares they shall not do; but even
that would give no power to the Judges OF
sny court to do it. They are not the State. lt
gives no power TO a m ,jorlty of one halt the
citizens OF any State (the male clsizens alone) J;
the, are not the St,te, AMI am not aware
the State of New York has, since the ratI6ca-
ton ofthe f teeuth amendment, enacted a law
70 prJh bit her fem ile citizens from voting.
Ii true that Jud 5e uunt, in delivering his
opnon ia Miss Anthony's case. said, 1" the
legislature of the State of New York has
seen fit to say that the franchise OF voting
shall be limited to the male sex; ;" but un-
back anterior to the ratif;at of the fl
teenth amendment, law which the four
tenth amend nent killed as dead as the
last years mtnlc. His honor, however
proceeds to sentence her TO pty fine OF one
hundred dollars, Ter the silly pretence
mthat the word sex ls not in the coustitu-
ton" OF course 1t is not. and, it appears
10 m, the lie sltlmate inference should be
that the constitution recognizes no differ
on account o. sex. It seems to me 1t were {
woman, | would IN the most bitter irony
exclam, =" All hail, glorious Magma. Charta.
As sha Eot probably ever write again or
this subject, permit me, Mr.. Eiitor, to say
one word to the female citizens of Vermont.
Vermont has not, since the rattle tion of The
fifteenth amendment to the constitution Of
the Uuited States, enacted any law to
abridge your rights as cltizens; consequent
IL YOU are still clothed with all the right;
and prerogatives OF citizens, and VIII at GU
next lreemen's meeting have clear consti
tutional riyht to vote, under she same rules
andregulations AZ other citizens. But do no
for one moment. my sisters, h'tter your
selves that you are going to be permitted to
exercise or use your rights as citizens
We men have got the power, and we meal
to keep it, nevertheless you will one day ge
tie ballot, but it will be alter revolutio
more sweepingly radical, if not more terr
bly, bloody, than was ever yet witnessed OF
this Continent.
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