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December 25, 1872
NEW YORK TIMES, New York, NY, dated December 25, 1872.  The front page of this issue features a small article entitled:  "Woman Suffrage Once More", with a corresponding subhead reading:  "Examination of the Rochester Election Inspectors-Miss Susan B. Anthony Appears as Counsel for them and Argnes."  This article reads in part:  "The examination of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and Wilham B. Hall, the inspectors of election, who permitted Susan B. Anthony to vote at the last election, before United States Commissioner A. P. Ely..."  The issue goes on to discuss the end of the case against both Anthony and those who allowed her to vote.

This issue is in very good condition.  At the bottom of page one some staining appears to have occurred during the printing of the issue, but the content itself is not effected.

Background Information:  On November 18, 1872, Anthony was arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal for alleged illegal voting in the presidential election two weeks earlier. She had written to Stanton on the night of the election that she had "positively voted the Republican ticket -- straight," because of the Republicans' sympathy to women's suffrage and the fact that the Democrats were "out against us strong." She was tried and convicted seven months later, despite the stirring and eloquent presentation of her arguments that the recently adopted Fourteenth Amendment, which guaranteed to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" the privileges of citizenship, and which contained no sex qualification, gave women the constitutional right to vote in federal elections. The sentence was a fine, but not imprisonment; and true to her word in court, she never paid the penalty for the rest of her life. The trial gave Anthony the opportunity to spread her arguments to a wider audience than ever before. source: Wikipedia