were agitating the public mind. Ardent abolitionist as she was,
she could not tolerate without indignant protest the exclusion of
women in all discussions of emancipation. The suffrage war policy
of Miss Anthony can be compared to that of the militants a half
century later when confronted with the problem of this country's
entrance into the world war.

The war of the rebellion over and the emancipation of the

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negro man written into the constitution, women contended they had
a right to vote under the new fourteenth amendment. Miss Anthony
led in this agitation, urging all women to claim the right to
vote under this amendment. In the national election of 187'2 she
voted in Rochester, New York, her home city, was arrested, tried
and convicted of the crime of "voting without having a lawful
right to vote."

I cannot resist giving a brief excerpt from the court records of
this extraordinary case, so reminiscent is it of the cases of the
suffrage pickets tried nearly fifty years later in the courts of
the national capital.

After the prosecuting attorney had presented the government's
case, Judge Hunt read his opinion, said to have been written
before the case had been heard, and directed the jury to bring in
a verdict of guilty. The jury was dismissed without deliberation
and a new trial was refused. On the following day this scene took
place in that New York court room.