argument to prove that, under the Fourteenth Amendment,
women already had a legal right to vote. These were supported by his
wife, Virginia L. Minor, in a strong speech. They were the first thus
to interpret this amendment. Ten thousand extra copies of The
Revolution containing the resolutions and this speech were published,
laid on the desk of every member of Congress, sent to the leading
newspapers and circulated throughout the country. For a number of years
the National Suffrage Association held to this construction of the
amendment, until it was decided to the contrary by the Supreme Court of
the United States.

Conventions were held in Cincinnati and Dayton, O. At the latter Miss
Anthony gave a scathing review of the laws affecting married women, the
control which they allowed the husband over the wife, children and
property, making, however, no attack upon men but only upon laws. Each
of the other speakers, all of whom were married, in turn took up the
cudgel, and proceeded to tell how good her own husband was, and to say
that if Miss Anthony only had a good husband she never would have made
that speech, but each admitted that the men were better than the laws.
In her closing remarks Miss Anthony used their own testimony against
them and created great merriment in the audience. Whenever she
commented on existing conditions or on general principles, individual
men and women were sure to rush into the fray, making a personal
application and waxing highly indignant. The Dayton Herald said of her
evening address: "She made a clear, logical and lawyerlike argument, in
sprightly language, that women being persons are citizens, and as
citizens, voters. We think that none who examine her authorities and
line of discussion can avoid her conclusions, and we are certain that
many of the ablest jurists of the land have the honor (logically and
legally) to coincide in her argument."

In 1869 Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker came actively into the suffrage
work and proved a valuable ally. She had been much prejudiced against
Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton by newspaper reports and by the
misrepresentations of some of her acquaintances, and in order to
overcome this feeling Paulina Wright Davis arranged that the three
should visit her for several days at her home in Providence, R.I.,
saying in her invitation: "I once had a prejudice against Susan B.
Anthony but am ashamed of it. I investigated carefully every charge
made against he