A United states Marshal arrests Susan B. Anthony for violating the Force Act: illegally voting in a federal election. Although Anthony claims that the fraudulent 14th amendment allows women to vote, the act was passed to enforce the 14th and 15th amendments by keeping former confederate Citizens from voting.
[restored 5/7/2022]
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References:
Force Act, 16 Public Statutes at Large 140, 144 (1870).
Alma Lutz, Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, and Humanitarian, (1959; Boston: Beacon Press, 1960), 201.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, five volumes (New York: Fowlers & Wells, 1881-1902; New York: Arno Press, 1969), 2:649.
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