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![handle is hein.trials/acen0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -CASE OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
OPINION OF MR. JUSTICE HUNT.
[From the Utica Morning Herald and Daily Gazette, June 80, 1878.]
The corrected opinion of Mr. Justice HUNT, in the case
of The United States against SusAx B. ANTHONY, is pre.
sented in full, as follows:
OPINION.
The defendant is indicted under the Act of Congress of
1870 for having voted for Representatives in Congress in
November, 1872. Among other things that act makes it
an offense for any person knowingly to vote for such repre-
sentatives without having a right to vote. It is charged
that the defendant thus voted, she not having a right to
vote because she is a woman. The defendant insists that
she has a right to vote; that the provision of the constitu-
tion of this State limiting the right to vote to persons of
the male sex is in violation of the fourteenth amendment
of the Constitution of the United States and is void.
The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
were designed mainly for the protection of the newly
emancipated negroes, but full effect must nevertheless be
given to the language employed. The thirteenth amend-
ment provided that neither slavery nor involuntary servi.
tude should longer exist in the United States. If honestly
received and fairly applied, this provision would have been
enough to guard the rights of the colored race. In some
States it was attempted to be evaded by enactments cruel
and oppressive in their nature; as that colored persons
were forbidden to appear in the towns except in a menial
capacity; that they should reside on and cultivate the soil](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.trials/acen0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)