y I respected put in jail."

The following day, January 22, the commission then in session at Albany
for the purpose of revising the State Constitution was addressed by
Miss Anthony on woman's right to vote under the Constitution of the
United States. Her attorneys, Selden and Van Voorhis, were present and,
when she finished, the former said to her, "If I had heard this address
first I could have made a far better argument before Judge Hall."
Immediately following the judge's decision, Miss Anthony was indicted
by the grand jury.[68]

During this winter she attended the Ohio and Illinois Suffrage
conventions, and in a number of cities in these States and in Indiana
made her great constitutional argument on the right of women to vote
under the Fourteenth Amendment. Every newspaper in the country took up
the points involved and the interest and agitation were wide-spread.
She spoke at Ft. Wayne on February 25, an intensely cold night. Above
her was an open scuttle, from which a stream of air poured down upon
her head, and when half through her lecture she suddenly became
unconscious. She was the guest of Mrs. Mary Hamilton Williams, and was
taken at once to her home where she received every possible kindness
and attention. As soon as she recovered consciousness she begged that
steps be taken immediately to keep the occurrence from the Associated
Press, as she feared that, on account of her mother's extremely
delicate health, the shock and anxiety would prove fatal. Three nights
later, although not wholly recovered, she spoke to a large audience at
Marion, Ind.; the diary says, "going on the platform with fear and
trembling."

She returned home, and on March 4 cast her ballot at the city election
without any protest. Only two other ladies could be induced to vote,
Mrs. Mary Pulver and Mrs. Mary S. Hebard. All of the others who had
voted in the fall were thoroughly frightened, and their husbands and
other male relatives were even more panic-stricken.

In the midst of her own perplexities Miss Anthony did not forget to
issue the call[69] for the May Anniversary in New York, where she made
an address, detailing the incidents of her arrest and defending her
rights as a citizen. All the speeches and letters of the convention
were deeply sympathetic, and among the resolutions bearing on this
question was one stating that since the underlying principle of our
government is equality of political rights, therefore "the trial of