An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony
Anthony
1874
An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony
Anonymous · 1874
The official pamphlet record of the trial where a judge decided Susan B. Anthony's guilt before the jury ever spoke.
7 chapters · 69,124 words · ~5.2 hr read
This 1874 pamphlet is not a retelling of Susan B. Anthony's trial — it is the trial: the indictment, the opposing arguments over whether the Fourteenth Amendment already made her a voter, Judge Ward Hunt's prepared opinion and directed guilty verdict, and Anthony's own defiant words at sentencing, cut short by the judge. Bundled with it is the trial of the three election inspectors who let her vote, plus Anthony's campaign speech and Matilda Joslyn Gage's address delivered in the towns of Ontario County before the trial began. Read together, it is a primary-source record of both a constitutional argument for women's citizenship and a due-process fight over what a jury trial is actually for.
Contents
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
The preface, the indictment, and the full trial record — opening speeches, argument, Judge Hunt's directed verdict, and Anthony's statement at sentencing.
The Trial of the Inspectors
The companion indictment and trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh, and William B. Hall, the election officials who accepted Anthony's vote.
Appendix
Three bundled documents: Anthony's own campaign address, Matilda Joslyn Gage's speech, and John Hooker's article on the trial's implications for the right to trial by jury.