ighty reason to those which I have
already advanced, to show that women need the aid of the ballot for
their protection.

The district-attorney followed with a two hours' speech. Then Judge
Hunt, without leaving the bench, delivered a written opinion[73] to the
effect that the Fourteenth Amendment, under which Miss Anthony claimed
the authority to vote, "was a protection, not to all our rights, but to
our rights as citizens of the United States only; that is, the rights
existing or belonging to that condition or capacity." At its conclusion
_he directed the jury to bring in a verdict of guilty_.

Miss Anthony's counsel insisted that the Court had no power to make
such a direction in a criminal case and demanded that the jury be
permitted to bring in its own verdict. The judge made no reply except
to order the clerk to take the verdict. Mr. Selden demanded that the
jury be polled. Judge Hunt refused, and at once discharged the jury
without allowing them any consultation or asking if they agreed upon a
verdict. Not one of them had spoken a word. After being discharged, the
jurymen talked freely and several declared they should have brought in
a verdict of "not guilty."

The next day Judge Selden argued the motion for a new trial on seven
exceptions, but this was denied by Judge Hunt. The following scene then
took place in the courtroom:

Judge Hunt.--(Ordering the defendant to 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 under foot every
vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil
rights, my political rights, my judicial 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 form of government.

Judge Hunt.--The Court can not listen to a rehearsal of argument
which 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. Your denial of my citizen's
right to v