Michael Zak sends along another piece of history, interesting in the light of Kate O’Beirne’s piece on single female voters in this week’s dead-tree issue of NR:

On this day in 1872, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for casting a ballot in the election two weeks before. In a letter to another famed suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthony boasted of having voted for “the Republican ticket — straight.”