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 my sex
are, by your Honor's verdict doomed to political subjection under
this so-called republican form of government.

JUDGE HUNT-The Court cannot. 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

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cannot in justice be pronounced against me. Your denial of my
citizen's right to vote, is the denial of my right of consent as
one of the governed, the denial of my right of representation as
one taxed, the denial of my right to a trial by jury of my peers
as an offender against law; therefore, the denial of my sacred
right to life, liberty, property, and