Page:Susan B. Anthony petition for remission of fine.djvu/15

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petitioner to vote she makes no complaint. It was a question properly belonging to the court to decide, was fully and fairly submitted to the Judge, and of his decision, whether right or wrong, and whether made before or after the argument your petitioner is well aware she cannot here complain.

But in regard to her conviction of crime, which she insists, for the reasons above given, was in violation of the principles of the common law, of common morality, of the statute under which she was charged, and of the Constitution; a crime of which she was as innocent as the Judge by whom she was convicted, she respectfully asks, inasmuch as the law has provided us means of reviewing the decisions of the judge, or of correcting his