the circumstances of birth are very different from those of a person born in Great Britain.  A person born in Great Britain is not endowed with political rights, simply because born in that country.  Political rights in Great Britain are not based upon personal rights; they are based upon property rights.  In England, persons are not represented; only property is represented.  That is the very great political difference between England and the United States.  In the United States, representation is based upon individual, personal rights—­therefore, every person born in the United States—­every person,—­not every white person, nor every male person, but every person is born with political rights.  The naturalization of foreigners also secures to them the exercise of political rights, because it secures to them citizenship, and they obtain naturalization through national law.  The war brought about a distinct and new recognition of the rights of national citizenship.  States had assumed to be superior to the nation in this very underlying national basis of voting rights, but when certain States boldly attempted to thwart national power, and vote themselves out of the Union,—­when by this attempt they virtually said, there is no nation, a new protection was thrown around individual, personal, political rights, by a seventeenth step, known to the world by the Fourteenth Amendment, which defined, (not created) citizenship.  “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,” thus recognizing United States citizenship as the first and superior citizenship.

Miss Anthony was not only born in the United States, but the United States also has jurisdiction over her, as is shown by this suit, under which she was arrested in Rochester, and held there to examination in the same little room in which fugitive slaves were once examined.  From Rochester she was taken to Albany, from Albany back to Rochester, and now from Rochester to Canandaigua, where she is soon to be tried.  She has thus been fully acknowledged by the United States as one of its citizens, and also as a citizen of the State in which she resides.

In order to become a citizen of a State, and enjoy the privileges and immunities of States, a citizen of the United States must reside in a State.  Citizenship of the United States secures nothing over the citizenship of other countries, unless it secures the right of self-government.  State laws may hereafter regulate suffrage, but the difference between regulating and prohibiting, is as great as the difference between state and national citizenship.  The question of the war was the question of State rights; it was the negro, vs. State rights, or the power of States over the ballot.  The question to-day is, woman, vs. United States rights, or the power of the United over the ballot.  The moral battle