Susan B. Anthony, though ostensibly involving only the political status
of woman, in reality questions the right of every man to share in the
government; that it is not Susan B. Anthony or the women of the
republic who alone are on trial today, but it is the government of the
United States, and that as the decision is rendered for or against the
political rights of citizenship, so will the men of America find
themselves free or enslaved."

A reception was given by Dr. Clemence Lozier, founder of the Woman's
Homeopathic College of New York, who was always Miss Anthony's faithful
and devoted friend, never shaken in her trust by any storm that raged.
During the darkest days of her paper, The Revolution, when the
generosity of all others had been exhausted, Dr. Lozier gave her $50
every Saturday for many weeks and helped her by so much to bear the
weight of the financial burden. For more than a quarter of a century
her hospitable doors were always ajar for her, and it was to be
expected that, at this crucial moment, she would again express her
loyalty.

Miss Anthony's trial was set for the term of court beginning May 13,
and she decided to make a canvass of Monroe county, not to argue her
own case but in order that the people might be educated upon the
constitutional points involved. Commencing March 11, she spoke in
twenty-nine of the post-office districts. Being informed that
District-Attorney Crowley threatened to move her trial into another
county because she would prejudice the jury, she notified him she would
see that that county also was thoroughly canvassed, and asked him if
she were prejudicing a jury by reading and explaining the Constitution
of the United States.

The speech delivered by Miss Anthony during these weeks was a
masterpiece of clear, strong, logical argument in defense of woman's
right to the ballot which never has been equalled.[70] Her audiences
were large and attentive and public sentiment was thoroughly aroused.
One of the papers gives this description: "Miss Anthony was fashionably
dressed in black silk with demi-train, basque with flowing sleeves,
heavily trimmed in black lace; ruffled white lace undersleeves and a
broad, graceful lace collar; with a gold neck chain and pendant. Her
abundant hair was brushed back and bound in a knot after the fashion of
our grandmothers."

When the time for trial came, true to his promise, District-Attorney
Crowley obtained an order removing the cause to