intelligent, and FREE BORN.  Native-born citizenship is generally conceded to be of more value than that which is bought.  Do you not remember that when Paul was brought up, preparatory to being scourged, he demanded by what right they scourged him, a Roman citizen.  The chief captain said, “I bought this freedom with a great price.”  Paul replied, “I am free born”; then great fear fell upon the chief captain, and he ordered the bonds removed from Paul.  Native-born Roman citizenship was worth as much as that two thousand years ago.  To-day, the foreign-born American citizen, who has bought his freedom with a great price, who has left his home and country, and crossed the sea to a strange land, in order that he may find freedom, is held to be superior to “free born” American women citizens.

But Miss Anthony is not battling for herself alone, nor for the woman alone; she stands to-day, the embodiment of Republican principles.  The question of to-day, is not has woman a right to vote, but has any American citizen, white or black, native-born, or naturalized, a right to vote.  The prosecution of Miss Anthony by the United States, for the alleged crime of having cast a vote at the last election, is a positive declaration of the government of the United States that it is a crime to vote.  Let that decision be affirmed, and we have no republic; the ballot, the governing power in the hands of every person, is the only true republic.  Each person to help make the laws which govern him or her, is the only true democracy.  Individual responsibility, personal representation, exact political equality, are the only stable foundations of a republic, and when the United States makes voting a crime on the part of any free-born, law-abiding citizen, it strikes a blow at its own stability; it is undermining the very foundations of the republic—­it is attempting to overthrow its own Constitution.

Miss Anthony is to-day the representative of liberty; she is to-day battling for the rights of every man, woman and child in the country; she is not only upholding the right of every native-born citizen, but of every naturalized citizen; to-day is at stake in her person, the new-born hopes of foreign lands, the quickened instincts of liberty, so well nigh universal.  All these are on trial with her; the destinies of America, the civilization of the world, are in the balance with her as she stands on her defence.  If the women of this country are restricted in their right of self-government, what better is it for them to have been born in the United States, than to have been born in Russia, or France, or England, or many another monarchical country?  No better; nor as well, as in all these countries, women vote upon certain questions.  In Russia, about one-half of the property of the country is in the hands of women, and they vote upon its disposition and control.  In France and Sweden, women vote at municipal elections, and in England, every woman householder or rate-payer,