that old pro-slavery men propose
to vote for him no more makes him pro-slavery than the drunkards'
or rum-sellers' vote for him makes him a friend and advocate of the
liquor traffic. My sense of justice and truth is outraged by the
Harpers' cartoons of Greeley and the general falsifying tone of the
Republican press. It is not fair for us to join in the cry that
everybody who is opposed to the present administration is either a
Democrat or an apostate.

I shall try to be "careful and not captious," as you suggest, but
more than all, I shall try not to run myself or my cause into the
slough of political schemes or schemers. And I pray you, be prudent
and conscientious, and do not surrender one iota of true principle
or of our philosophy of reform to aid mere Republican partisanship.

Miss Anthony never has abandoned this position and the leading
advocates of woman suffrage stand with her squarely upon the ground
that no party, whatever its principles, shall have their sanction and
advocacy until it shall make an unequivocal declaration in favor of the
enfranchisement of women and support this by means of the party press
and platform.

There was a desire on the part of many women to test the right to vote
which they claimed was conferred on them by the Fourteenth Amendment,
and in 1872 a number in different places attempted to cast their
ballots at the November election. A few were accepted by the
inspectors, but most of them were refused. On Friday morning, November
1, Miss Anthony read, at the head of the editorial columns of the
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the following strong plea:

Now register! Today and tomorrow are the only remaining
opportunities. If you were not permitted to vote, you would fight
for the right, undergo all privations for it, face death for it.
You have it now at the cost of five minutes' time to be spent in
seeking your place of registration and having your name entered.
And yet, on election day, less than a week hence, hundreds of you
are likely to lose your votes because you have not thought it worth
while to give the five minutes. Today and tomorrow are your only
opportunities. Register now!

There was nothing to indicate that this appeal was made to men only, it
said plainly that suffrage was a right for which one would fight and
face death, and that it could be had at the cost of five minutes' tim