JUDGE HUNT-The Court cannot 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 highhanded 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 cannot allow it.

Miss ANTHONY-Of all my persecutors 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 . . . . Precisely as no disfranchised person
is entitled to sit upon the 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 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 verdict of guilty,
against a United States citizen for the exercise of the
"citizen's right to vote," simply because that