“MR. EDITOR:  America, the home of many humbugs, which produced Brigham Young, Barnum, Home, the medium, and many others, has, it appears, another human curiosity in Miss Anthony.  This specimen from over the way comes amongst us, and because our ladies fail to recognize or encourage her in her vagaries, she gets very rabid and snarls and snaps at the ’women of Victoria who had so sunk their womanhood that they were happy even in their degradation.’  The degradation referred to is that of whipping, which this female firebrand appears to believe is the rule hers.  Surely the complete immunity from castigation of such a noxious creature as Miss Anthony is sufficient answer to this libel.  Men in British Columbia no more countenance bad husbands than do the women a quack apostle in petticoats.  They look upon such persons as sexual mistakes, like the two-headed lady or the four-legged baby, and as safe guides on social questions as George Francis Train is in politics.

  AN INSULTED HUSBAND.”

And yet during the few days she was in Victoria no leas than half a dozen women came to her to protest against the law which allowed the husband to whip his wife.]

[Footnote 62:  During Mr. Sargent’s candidacy for the Senate, a California newspaper objected that he was in favor of woman suffrage, and called for a denial of the truth of the damning charge.  He took no notice of it until a week or two later, when a suffrage convention met in San Francisco; he then went before that body and delivered a radical speech in favor of woman’s rights, taking the most advanced grounds.  When he was through he remarked to a friend, “They have my views now, and can make the most of them.  I would not conceal them to be senator.”—­History of Woman Suffrage, Vol.  II, p. 483.]

CHAPTER XXIV.

REPUBLICAN SPLINTER——­MISS ANTHONY VOTES.

1872.

The leading women in the movement for suffrage, supported by some of the ablest constitutional lawyers in the country, continued to claim the right to vote under the following: 

    FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT, JULY 28, 1868.

SECTION 1.  All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.  No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT, MARCH 30, 1870.

    SECTION 1.  The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall
    not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on
    account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.