itizens, as it is their duty to do. We appeal to United States
commissioners and marshals to arrest the inspectors who reject
the names and votes of United States citizens, as it is their
duty to do, and leave those alone who, like our eighth ward
inspectors, perform their duties faithfully and well. We ask the
juries to fail to return verdicts of "guilty" against honest,
law-abiding, tax-paying United States citizens for offering their
votes at our elections; or against intelligent, worthy young men,
inspectors of election, for receiving and counting such citizens'
votes. We ask the judges to render true and unprejudiced opinions
of the law, and wherever there is room for a doubt to give its
benefit on the side of liberty and equality to women, remembering
that

The true rule of interpretation under our National
Constitution, especially since its Amendments, is that
anything for human rights is constitutional, everything
against human rights unconstitutional.

And it is on this line that we propose to fight our battle for
the ballot--peaceably, but nevertheless persistently to complete
triumph, when all United States citizens shall be recognized as
equals before the law.

Miss Anthony's trial opened the morning of the 18th of June. The
lovely village of Canandaigua, with its placid lake reflecting the
soft summer sky, gave no evidence of the great event that was to make
the day and the place memorable in history. All was still, the usual
peaceful atmosphere pervaded that conservative town, and with the
exception of a small group of men and women in earnest conversation at
the hotel, few there were who thought or cared about the great
principles of government involved in the pending trial. When the
tolling of the Court House bell announced that the hour had arrived,
Miss Anthony, her counsel and friends, promptly appeared, and were
soon followed by the District Attorney and Judge, representing the
power of the United States,--Miss Anthony to stand as a criminal
before the bar of her country for having dared to exercise a freeman's
right of self-government, and that country through its Judiciary to
falsify its grand declarations as to the equality of its citizens by a
verdict of guilty because of sex.

On the bench sat Judge Hunt, a small-brained, pale-faced, prim-looking
man, enveloped in a faultl