[295] Ibid., p. 433.

[296] Trial, pp. 2-3.

[297] N.d., Susan B. Anthony Papers, New York Public Library.

[298] Trial, pp. 151, 153. Judge Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Sec. 456: "The importance of examining the preamble for the purpose of expounding the language of a statute has long been felt and universally conceded in all juridical discussion." History of Woman Suffrage, II, p. 477.

[299] Harper, Anthony, II, pp. 978, 986-987.

[300] Ms., Diary, May 10, June 7, 1873.

[301] Suffrage clubs in New York, Buffalo, Chicago, and Milwaukee sent $50 and $100 contributions. Susan's cousin, Anson Lapham, cancelled notes for $4000 which she had signed while struggling to finance The Revolution. The women of Rochester rallied behind her, forming a Taxpayers' Association to protest taxation without representation.

[302] Harper, Anthony, II, pp. 994-995.

[303] Ibid., I, p. 429.

CHAPTER XVII — "IS IT A CRIME FOR A CITIZEN ... TO VOTE?"