en, interpreted by men, administered by men, in favor of men,
and against women; and hence, your honor's ordered verdict of
guilty, against a United States citizen for the exercise of "that
citizen's right to vote," simply because that citizen was a woman
and not a man. But, yesterday, the same man-made forms of law
declared it a crime punishable with $1,000 fine and six months'
imprisonment, for you, or me, or any of us, to give a cup of cold
water, a crust of bread, or a night's shelter to a panting
fugitive as he was tracking his way to Canada. And every man or
woman in whose veins coursed a drop of human sympathy violated
that wicked law, reckless of consequences, and was justified in
so doing. As then the slaves who got their freedom must take it
over, or under, or through the unjust forms of law, precisely so
now must women, to get their right to a voice in this Government,
take it; and I have taken mine, and mean to take it at every
possible opportunity.

Judge HUNT: The Court orders the prisoner to sit down. It will
not allow another word.

Miss ANTHONY: When I was brought before your honor for trial, I
hoped for a broad and liberal interpretation of the Constitution
and its recent amendments, that should declare all United States
citizens under its protecting aegis--that should declare equality
of rights the national guarantee to all persons born or
naturalized in the United States. But failing to get this
justice--failing, even, to get a trial by a jury _not_ of my
peers--I ask not leniency at your hands--but rather the full
rigors of the law.

Judge HUNT: The Court must insist-- (Here the prisoner sat
down.)

Judge HUNT: The prisoner will stand up. (Here Miss Anthony arose
again.) The sentence of the Court is that you pay a fine of one
hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution.

Miss ANTHONY: May it please your honor, I shall never pay a
dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess
is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper--_The
Revolution_--four years ago, the sole object of which was to
educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against
your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax,
fine, imprison, and hang women, while they deny them the right of