New Orleans Republican., 1873-06-19
WOMAN SUFFRAGE

Conviction Of Miss Susan Il. Anthony
Important Decision of Judge Ward
HOwe-The jury that Tried the COnl-
mi. .ioner. who Permitted Miss An.
thOny to Vote It'll Locked UD,
CANANDAIGUA. June lS.-Uuder instruc.
tions from the court, the jury ~ the case of
Susan B. Anthony, indicted for voting in
violation of law. returned a verdict of
guilty. The court refused to poll the jurv.
Judge Ward Hunt delivered the follow.
ing opinion and decision: Defendant is in.
dicted under the act Of Congress of 1870
for having voted for representatives in
Congress in November, 1877. Among other
things, that act makes il an Otfense for any
person to vote without having the right to
vote.
1t is charged that defendant thus voted,
she not having the right to vote because
she is woman. The defendant insists that
| she has right to vote: that the provision
! of the law Of this State limiting the right
! to vote to persons OF the male sex is in vic.
| lation Of the fourteenth amendment of the
! constitution Of the United States and is
void.
The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments We're designed mainly for the
| protection Of the newly emancipated ne.
| groes. But full effect must. nevertheless,
| be given to the language employed. The
| thirteenth amendment provided that nei.
! ther slavery nor involuntary servitude
| should longer exist N the United States.
| If honestly received and fairly applied.
| this provision would have been enough &c
/ guard the rights of the colored race.
| In some States it was attempted to be
| evaded by enactments, cruel and oppres-
] sive in their nature, as that cOlored persons
] were forbidden TO appear in towns except
| in menlal capacity; that they should
reside on and cultivate the soft without
| being allowed to own it, that they were not
| permitted to give testimony in cases where
| white man was party: that they were
| excluded from performing particular Kinds
| of business profitable and Improbable, and
| that they We're denied the right of suffrage.
To meet the difficulties arising from this
state Of things the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments were enacted.
The fourteenth amendment created and
| defined the citizenship OF the United states
1t has long been contended and has been
held by many learned authorities, but has
never been judicially decided TO the conn
try, that there was no such thing as cltl'
zen Of the United States, except as that
| condition arose from citizenship OF some
State. No mode existed, it was sald OF OBJ
tanning Gil zenship of the United States ex-
cept by first becoming citizen OF some
State. This question is now at rest.
The fourteenth amendment defined anC
declared who shall be citizens OF the United
States. to wit: All persons born or natural
lied in the United States, and subject to
the juisdiction thereof. The latter qualin'
cation was intended to exclude children,
foreign representatives and the like. With
this qualification every person born III the
| United States or naturalized is declared to
be citizen OF the United States and OF the
State wherein he resides. After creating and
defining citizenship of the United States
the amedment provides that no State shall
make or enforce any Law which shall
absidge tho privileges Or immunities OF