and myself called the first public meeting to protest
against the law. It was repealed March 27, 1874.

You are probably familiar with Mrs. Minor's suit to obtain
suffrage under the fourteenth amendment. We all admired her
courageous efforts for that object. Previous to that attempt our
society had earnestly advocated a sixteenth amendment for the
protection of woman's right to vote, but held the matter in
abeyance pending the suit. After its failure, we again renewed
our efforts for a sixteenth amendment, circulating and sending to
Washington our petitions. Our association holds monthly meetings
and proposes to continue the agitation.[385] I ought to say,
perhaps, that our society lends all the help possible to other
States. It gave $520 to Michigan in 1874, and $200 to Colorado in
1877.

R. N. H.

To bring the question of woman's right as a citizen of the United
States to vote for United States officers before the judiciary,
Mrs. Minor attempted to register in order to vote at the national
election in November, 1872, and being refused on account of her
sex, brought the matter before the courts in the shape of a suit
against the registering officer.[386] The point was decided
adversely to her in all the courts, being finally reported in
Vol. 21 of Wallace's U. S. Supreme Court Reports. The importance
of this decision cannot be over-estimated. It affects every
citizen of the United States, male as well as female, if, as
there pronounced, the United States has no voters of its own
creation. The Dred-Scott decision is insignificant in comparison.
Mrs. Minor made the following points in her petition:

1. As a _citizen_ of the United States, the plaintiff is
entitled to any and all the "privileges and immunities" that
belong to such position however defined; and as are held,
exercised and enjoyed by other citizens of the United
States.

2. The elective franchise is a "privilege" of citizenship,
in the highest sense of the word. It is the privilege
preservative of all rights and privileges; and especially of
the right of the citizen to participate in his or her
government.

3. The denial or abridgment of this privilege, if it ex