ion; indicted by grand jury; becomes
unconscious on lecture platform at Ft. Wayne; votes again; call for
Twenty-fifth Suffrage Anniversary; Miss Anthony delivers her great
Constitutional Argument in twenty-nine post office districts in Monroe
Co.; District-Attorney moves her trial to another county; she speaks at
twenty-one places and Mrs. Gage at sixteen in that county; Rochester
Union and Advertiser condemns her; trial opens at Canandaigua; masterly
argument of Judge Selden; Justice Ward Hunt delivers Written Opinion
without leaving bench; declines to submit case to Jury or to allow it
to be polled; refuses new trial; spirited encounter between Miss
Anthony and Judge; newspaper comment; trial of Inspectors; Judge
refuses to allow Counsel to address Jury; opinion of Mr. Van Voorhis;
contributions sent to Miss Anthony by friends; death of sister Guelma
McLean; Miss Anthony's letter of grief to mother; generous gift of
Anson Lapham.

CHAPTER XXVI.

NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO JURY OR FRANCHISE. (1874.), 449-465

Appeal to Congress to remit fine and declare Right to Trial by Jury;
report from House Committee for and against, by Butler and Tremaine;
from Senate Committee for and against, by Carpenter and Edmunds; pardon
of Inspectors by President Grant; Supreme Court decision in suit of
Virginia L. Minor against Inspectors for refusing her vote;
Representative Butler and Senator Lapham on Woman Suffrage; President
Grant's opinion; letter of Judge A.G. Riddle on chief obstacles; death
of Sumner; Miss Anthony's speech and letter on Women's Temperance
Crusade; lying telegram and N.Y. Herald's truthful report of
convention; letter by Miss Anthony, "honesty best policy;" suffrage
campaign in Michigan; Beecher-Tilton case.

CHAPTER XXVII.

REVOLUTION DEBT PAID--WOMEN'S FOURTH OF JULY. (1875-1876.), 467-482

Miss Anthony's annual struggle to hold Washington Convention; speech in
Chicago on Social Purity; comment of St. Louis Democrat and other
papers; hard lecture tour in Iowa; shooting of brother Daniel R.;
Revolution debt paid; commendation of press; Centennial Resolutions at
Washington Convention; establishing Centennial headquarters at
Philadelphia; Republicans again recognize Woman in National platform;
Miss Anthony and others present Woman's Declaration of Independence at
Centennial celebration; eloquent description; History of Woman Suffrage
begun; writes articles for Johnson's Encyclopedia.

CHAPTER XXVIII.