force its long finger into the Rochester case at
all.--New York Sun.

Whatever may be said of Susan B. Anthony, there is no doubt but she has
kept the public mind of the country agitated upon the woman's rights
question as few others, male or female, could have done. She has
displayed very superior judgment and has seldom been led into acts of
even seeming impropriety. She has won the respect of all classes by her
ability, her consistency and her spotless character, and she today
stands far in advance of all her co-workers in the estimation of the
people. The fact that she voted at Rochester at the presidential
election has created no little commotion on the part of the press, but
if women are to become voters, who but the one who has taken the lead
in the advocacy of that right should be among the first to cast the
vote?--Toledo Blade.

We pause in the midst of our pressing duties to admire the zeal and
courage which find in the course of these ladies a challenge to battle,
while evils a thousandfold worse, such as bribery, etc., are permitted
to pass unnoticed.... The ladies who voted in this city on the 5th of
this month did so from the conviction that they had a constitutional
right to the ballot. In that they may or may not have been mistaken,
but they certainly can not be justly classed with the ordinary illegal
voter and repeater. The latter always vote for a pecuniary
consideration, knowingly and intentionally violating our laws to get
gain. The former voted for a principle and to assert what, they esteem
a right. The attempt by insinuation to class them among the ordinary
illegal voters will react upon its movers.--Rochester Evening Express.]

[Footnote 67: Complaint has this day been made by ---- on oath before
me, William C. Storrs, commissioner, charging that Susan B. Anthony, on
or about the fifth day of November, 1872, at the city of Rochester, N.
Y., at an election held in the Eighth ward of the city of Rochester
aforesaid, for a representative in the Congress of the United States,
did then and there vote for a representative in the Congress of the
United States, without having a lawful right to vote and in violation
of Section 19 of an act of Congress approved May 31, 1870, entitled "An
act, to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in
the several States of this Union and for other purposes."]

CHAPTER XXV.

TRIAL FOR VOTING UNDER FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.

1873.

In the