New York; she claimed her
right under the Constitution of the United States.

_Q._ Did she name any particular amendment? _A._ Yes, sir; she
cited the XIV. Amendment.

_Q._ Under that she claimed her right to vote? _A._ Yes, sir.

_Q._ Did the other Federal Supervisor who was present, state it
as his opinion that she was entitled to vote under that
amendment, or did he protest, claiming that she did not have the
right to vote? _A._ One of them said that there was no way for
the inspectors to get around placing the name upon the register;
the other one, when she came in, left the room.

_Q._ Did this one who said that there was no way to get around
placing the name upon the register, state that she had her right
to register, but did not have the right to vote? _A._ I didn't
hear him make any such statement.

_Q._ You didn't hear any such statement as that? _A._ No, sir.

_Q._ Was there a poll list kept of the voters of the first
election district of the 8th Ward on the day of election? _A._
Yes, sir.

_Q._ (Handing witness two books.) State whether that is the poll
list of voters kept upon the day of election in the first
election district of the 8th Ward, of the city of Rochester? _A._
This is the poll list, and also the register.

_Q._ Turn to the name of Susan B. Anthony, if it is upon that
poll list. _A._ I have it.

_Q._ What number is it? _A._ Number 22.

_Q._ From that poll list what tickets does it purport to show
that she voted upon that occasion? _A._ Electoral, State,
Congress, and Assembly.

United States rests.

Judge SELDEN opened the case in behalf of the defendant, as follows:

_If the Court please, Gentlemen of the Jury:_

This is a case of no ordinary magnitude, although many might
regard it as one of very little importance. The question whether
my client here has done anything to justify her being consigned
to a felon's prison or not, is one that interests her very
essentially, and that interests the people also essentially. I
claim and shall endeavor to establish before you that when she
offered to have her name registered as a voter, and when she
offered her vote for Member of Congress, she was as much entitled
to vote as any man that voted at that election, according to the
Constitutio