CHAPTER XXIV.

REPUBLICAN SPLINTER--MISS ANTHONY VOTES. (1872.), 409-429

National Convention declares women enfranchised under Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments; Miss Anthony sustains this position before Senate
Judiciary Committee; friends in Rochester present testimonial; she
reads in Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly call to form New Party under
auspices of National Suffrage Association; her indignant remonstrance;
hastens to New York and prevents coalition; Liberal Republican
Convention at Cincinnati refuses to adopt Suffrage resolution; Miss
Anthony's comment; Republican Convention at Philadelphia makes first
mention of Woman; Mr. Blackwell's and Miss Anthony's letters regarding
this; Democratic Convention at Baltimore ignores Woman; Hon. John
Cochran tells how not to do it; Miss Anthony and Mrs. Gage urge women
to support Republican ticket; Miss Anthony states her Political
Position; her delight and Mrs. Stanton's doubts; letter from Henry
Wilson; Republican Committee summons her to Washington; she arranges
series of Republican rallies; sustains party only on Suffrage plank;
Miss Anthony Votes; newspaper comment; she is arrested; examination
before U.S. Commissioner; Judge Henry R. Selden and Hon. John Van
Voorhis undertake her case; Rochester Express defends her; letter on
case from Benjamin F. Butler.


CHAPTER XXV.

TRIAL FOR VOTING UNDER FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. (1873.), 431-448