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 verdict of guilty, against a United States citizen for the exercise of “that citizen’s right to vote,” simply because that citizen was a woman and not a man.  But, yesterday, the same man made forms of law, declared it a crime punishable with $1,000 fine and six months’ imprisonment, for you, or me, or any of us, to give a cup of cold water, a crust of bread, or a night’s shelter to a panting fugitive as he was tracking his way to Canada.  And every man or woman in whose veins coursed a drop of human sympathy violated that wicked law, reckless of consequences, and was justified in so doing.  As then, the slaves who got their freedom must take it over, or under, or through the unjust forms of law, precisely so, now, must women, to get their right to a voice in this government, take it; and I have taken mine, and mean to take it at every possible opportunity.

JUDGE HUNT—­The Court orders the prisoner to sit down.  It will not allow another word.

MISS ANTHONY—­When I was brought before your honor for trial, I hoped for a broad and liberal interpretation of the Constitution and its recent amendments, that should declare all United States citizens under its protecting aegis—­that should declare equality of rights the national guarantee to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.  But failing to get this justice—­failing, even, to get a trial by a jury not of my peers—­I ask not leniency at your hands—­but rather the full rigors of the law.

JUDGE HUNT—­The Court must insist—­

(Here the prisoner sat down.)

JUDGE HUNT—­The prisoner will stand up.

(Here Miss Anthony arose again.)

The sentence of the Court is that you pay a fine of one hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution.

MISS ANTHONY—­May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.  All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper—­The Revolution—­four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government; and I shall work on with might and main to pay every dollar of that honest debt, but not a penny shall go to this unjust claim.  And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”

JUDGE HUNT—­Madam, the Court will not order you committed until the fine is paid.