ote, is the denial of my right of consent as one of the
governed, the denial of my right of representation as one of the
taxed, the denial of my right to a trial by a jury of my peers as
an offender against law; therefore, the denial of my sacred right
to life, liberty, property and--

Judge Hunt.--The Court can not allow the prisoner to go on.

Miss Anthony.--But your honor will not deny me this one and only
poor privilege of protest against this high-handed outrage upon my
citizen's rights. May it please the Court to remember that, since
the day of my arrest last November, this is the first time that
either myself or any person of my disfranchised class has been
allowed a word of defense before judge or jury--

Judge Hunt.--The prisoner must sit down--the Court can not allow
it.

Miss Anthony.--Of all my prosecutors, from the corner grocery
politician who entered the complaint, to the United States marshal,
commissioner, district-attorney, district-judge, your honor on the
bench--not one is my peer, but each and all are my political
sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as
was clearly your duty, even then I should have had just cause of
protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or
foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant,
sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political
superior; hence, in no sense, my peer. Under such circumstances a
commoner of England, tried before a jury of lords, would have far
less cause to complain than have I, a woman, tried before a jury of
men. Even my counsel, Hon. Henry R. Selden, who has argued my cause
so ably, so earnestly, so unanswerably before your honor, is my
political sovereign. Precisely as no disfranchised person is
entitled to sit upon a jury, and no woman is entitled to the
franchise, so none but a regularly admitted lawyer is allowed to
practice in the courts, and no woman can gain admission to the
bar--hence, jury, judge, counsel, all must be of the superior
class.

Judge Hunt.--The Court must insist--the prisoner has been tried
according to the established forms of law.

Miss Anthony.--Yes, your honor, but by forms of law all made by
men, interpreted by men, administered by men, in favor of men and
against women; and hence your honor's ordered ver