made in the haste
and sometimes confusion of such trials, are not subject to review
before any other tribunal. I believe that to the decisions of
this court, in criminal cases, no review is allowed, except in
the same court in the informal way in which I now ask your honor
to review the decisions made on this trial. This is therefore the
court of last resort, and I hope your honor will give to these,
as they appear to me, grave questions, such careful and
deliberate consideration as is due to them from such final
tribunal.

If a new trial shall be denied to the defendant, it will be no
consolation to her to be dismissed with a slight penalty, leaving
the stigma resting upon her name, of conviction for an offense of
which she claims to be, and I believe is, an innocent as the
purest of the millions of male voters who voted at the same
election, are innocent of crime in so voting. If she is in fact
guilty of the crime with which she stands charged, and of which
she has been convicted by the court, she deserves the utmost
penalty which the court under the law has power to impose; if she
is not guilty she should be acquitted, and not declared upon the
records of this high court guilty of a crime she never committed.

The Court, after listening to an argument from the District Attorney,
denied the motion for a new trial.

The COURT: The prisoner will stand up. Has the prisoner anything
to say why sentence shall not be pronounced?

Miss ANTHONY: Yes, your honor, I have many things to say; for in
your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled underfoot every
vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil
rights, my political rights, are all alike ignored. Robbed of the
fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the
status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself
individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict,
doomed to political subjection under this so-called Republican
government.

Judge HUNT: The Court can not listen to a rehearsal of arguments
the prisoner's counsel has already consumed three hours in
presenting.

Miss ANTHONY: May it please your honor, I am not arguing the
question, but simply stating the reasons why sentence can not, in
justice, be pronounced against me.