In the case of the inspectors, it was an outrage to refuse
    defendants’ counsel the right to address the jury.

It was an outrage to refuse to instruct the jury that if the defendants, being administrative officers, acted without any criminal motive but in accordance with their best judgment, and in perfect good faith, they were not guilty.

Judge Selden has passed to his eternal rest and lies beneath a massive monument of granite in beautiful Mount Hope cemetery.  Mr. Van Voorhis thus paid tribute to his associate in this noted case:  “His argument on the constitutional points involved is one of the ablest and most complete to be found in history.  As a lawyer he had no superior; he was a master in his profession.  He had a most discriminating mind and a marvellous memory.  He was familiar with the books, and possessed a power of statement equal to that of Daniel Webster.  I predict that the verdict of history will be that Judge Selden was right and the Court wrong upon the constitutional question involved in this case.”

To the heavy debts of The Revolution which, with all her efforts, Miss Anthony had been able to reduce but a fraction, were now added the costs of this suit.  She did not propose to pay the fines, but she did intend to see that the inspectors were relieved of all expense in connection with the trial.  Her indomitable courage did not fail her even in this emergency, and as usual she was sustained by the substantial appreciation of her friends.  Letters of sympathy and financial help poured in from acquaintances and strangers in all parts of the country.  Indignation meetings were held and contributions sent also by various reform clubs and societies.[74] All were swallowed up in the heavy and unavoidable expenses of the suits of herself and the inspectors.  Neither of her lawyers ever presented a bill.  She had 5,000 copies made of Judge Selden’s argument on the habeas corpus at Albany, which she scattered broadcast.  She also had printed 3,000 pamphlets, at a cost of $700, containing a full report of the trial, and sent them to all the law journals in the United States and Canada, to the newspapers, etc.  The Democrat and Chronicle said of this book, “We believe it is the most important contribution yet made to the discussion of woman suffrage from a legal standpoint.”  None of the other cases ever were brought to trial.[75]

Miss Anthony had no fears of not being able to raise money to pay her debts if she could be free to give her time to the lecture platform, but an entire year had been occupied with her trial, and the money received during this period had been required to meet its expenses.  She had a vital reason, however, for feeling that she could not leave home—­the rapidly-failing health of her beloved sister Guelma, her senior by only twenty months, for more than half a century her close companion, and for the past eight years living under the same roof.  Her heart had been broken