[Footnote 68:  ...  Good and lawful men of the said District, then and there sworn and charged to inquire for the said United States of America, and for the body of said District, do, upon their oaths, present, that Susan B. Anthony now or late of Rochester, in the county of Monroe, with force and arms,... did knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully vote for a Representative in the Congress of the United States for the State of New York at large, and for a Representative in the Congress of the United States for said twenty-ninth Congressional District, without having a lawful right to vote in said election district (the said Susan B. Anthony being then and there a person of the female sex), as she, the said Susan B. Anthony then and there well knew, contrary to the form of the statute of the United States of America in such case made and provided, and against the peace of the United States of America and their dignity, etc.]

[Footnote 69:  The Twenty-fifth Woman Suffrage Anniversary will be held in Apollo Hall, New York, Tuesday, May 6, 1873.  Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who called the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls in 1848, will be present to give their reminiscences.  That convention was scarcely mentioned by the local press; now, over the whole world, equality for woman is demanded.  In the United States, woman suffrage is the chief political question of the hour.  Great Britain is deeply agitated upon the same topic.  Germany has a princess at the head of its national woman’s rights organization.  Portugal, Spain and Russia have been roused.  In Rome an immense meeting, composed of the representatives of Italian democracy, was recently called in the Coliseum; one of its resolutions demanded a reform in the laws relating to woman and a re-establishment of her natural rights.  Turkey, France, England, Switzerland, Italy, sustain papers devoted to woman’s enfranchisement.  A Grand International Woman’s Rights Congress is to be held in Paris, in September of this year, to which the whole world is invited to send delegates, and this congress is to be under the management of the most renowned liberals of Europe.  Come up, then, friends, and celebrate the silver wedding of the woman suffrage movement.  Let our twenty-fifth anniversary be one of power; our reform is everywhere advancing, let us redouble our energies and our courage.  SUSAN B. ANTHONY, President; MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Executive Committee.]

[Footnote 70:  See Appendix for speech in full.]

[Footnote 71:  See Appendix for newspaper comment.]

[Footnote 72:  A full report of this trial, testimony, arguments of counsel, etc., may be found in the History of Woman Suffrage, Vol.  II, beginning page 647.]

[Footnote 73:  Can a judge with propriety prepare a written opinion before he has heard all the arguments in a case?]