I
consider the argument of our counsel unanswered and unanswerable."
"_The verdict is not the verdict of the jury._
"_I am_ NOT GUILTY _of the charge_."
The Court then sentenced the defendants to pay a fine of $25 each, and
the costs of the prosecution.
APPENDIX.
ADDRESS OF
SUSAN B. ANTHONY,
Delivered in twenty-nine of the Post Office Districts of Monroe, and
twenty-one of Ontario, in her canvass of those Counties, prior to her
trial in June, 1873.
* * *
_Friends and Fellow-citizens_: I stand before you to-night, under
indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last
Presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall
be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only
committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my _citizen's right_,
guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National
Constitution, beyond the power of any State to deny.
Our democratic-republican government is based on the idea of the natural
right of every individual member thereof to a voice and a vote in making
and executing the laws. We assert the province of government to be to
secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights.
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