Colby-Speeches, Women's Rights, Suffrage Leaders, undated (Clara Berwick Colby papers, 1860-1957; Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Box 8, Folder 4)

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Albert G, Riddle, a well-known lawyer of the District of Columbia, said in an argument before the Supreme Court of the District, October 1871: "By the old common law of our English ancestors, the old storehouse of our rights and liberties, as well as the arsenal where we find weapons for their defense, women always possessed the right of suffrage." Let us [crossed out][peep?] into this storehouse and see what it has to say about the status of women with regard to teh suffrage. Whatever liberties men of the colonies had obtained