The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-20
wOMAN,S RIGHTS.

At the trial Of Miss susan IL. Anthony.
on Tuesday. at Canandaigua, New York.
charged with voting for member of Con-
gress, lit was conceded that the defendant
was, on the 9th of November, 1872, a
woman" Upon legal advice she on that
day committed the crime Of voting, dcriv-
ing her supposed right to vote from the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the
United States Constitution.
Miss Anillonys attorney, Judge Seldom,
said in his argument that If Miss Anthony
brother had voted, the act would have been
held commcndable, but being done by Miss
Anthony il was regarded as a crime, which
made the criminality consist in the sex.
Judge Seldom neglected TO note that the
law allows Miss Anthony's brother to vote
but not Miss Anthony. In the course of
his speech he attributed the improvements
made in the last twenty-five years, as re-
CARDS women. to the efforts OF the Woman s
Rights women.
Judge Seldom was correct in this Men
did not do the fair thing by their sisters
previously to the Womans Rights agita-
ton Whether they ever attain to the cx-
allied privilege of voting or not, they at
least have accomplished great good in pre-
yailing upon legislators to step down
from their masculine stills and legislatc in
to the laws little decent justice towards
the fair sex. There was time in Illinois
whcn,if woman earned dollar by wash
ing. and collected the money her husband
could compel her employer to pay him as
if no payment had been made. The law is
improved there now, and is also improved
in Il number of other States, and will bear
more improvement yet.
Another good result of the Woman's
Rights agitation is the widening of woman's
sphere of action. She has literally fought
her way with tongue and pen into the col
leges and into the practice of law and
medicine, and into the telegraph offices
printing offices and stores. Time was, no,
more than quarter of century ago, when
it was supposed that all of wOman's sphere
could be held on the point of needle
When Il reform was sought "Woman's
Specr' was fine piece of wit for the stcrc.
otypcd fun of negro MINISTRIES. The men
and women now in spectacles, who laughed
at the rcformcrs and the burlcsqucs of them
in youth have modified their views. Many
enterprising members of the submissive sex
have laid pens in rest upon their ears,
charged upon departments of the govern.
ment, and captured lucrative clcrkships.
But to return to Miss Anthony's trial.
Judge Seldom laid great deal of stress on
her belief That she had right to vote, her
opinion being founded on her own convic-
tions and his advice. The argument was
barely plausible. Miss Anthony knew she
was violating the law of the State. If she
could escape punishment by setting up
private opinions, so might any other vio-
lator of the law. The intention, however,
was presumably to make an issue between
a law of the State and the United States
Constitution, which would take the case
into the United States Supreme Court fol
final adjudication, if decided in favor OF
the State law.
Miss Anthony should not expect dcci
sion in that high tribunal in her favor. II
is a matter of common information that
thefourteenth and fifteenth amendments
were intended for the benefit of the negroes;
that women were not mentioned or thought
of in drafting the amendments or passing
or adopting Them and now to pretend that
it was the intention of Congress, Legislators
or people, to embrace women lin the
amendments is the widest kind of delu
sion.
Upon the admitted facts of the case the
jury, in accordance with instructions from
the Court, found Miss Anthony guilty. She
will of course decline going to Jail or pay.
ing fine, but instead will give bail and &c
to the Supreme Court of the State, and
thence, If defeated, to the Supreme Court
of the United States.
Whatever the result of her venture. ma,
the sex in general flourish and live forever