We ask the judges to render true and unprejudiced opinions of the law, and wherever there is room for a doubt to give its benefit on the side of liberty and equal rights to women, remembering that "the true rule of interpretation under our national constitution, especially since its amendments, is that anything for human rights is constitutional, everything against human rights unconstitutional." And it is on this line that we propose to fight our battle for the ballot--all peaceably, but nevertheless persistently through to complete triumph, when all United States citizens shall be recognized as equals before the law. SPEECH OF MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, In Canandaigua and 16 other towns of Ontario county, previous to Miss Anthony's Trial, June 17th, 1873. THE UNITED STATES ON TRIAL; _not_ SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. That is the axiom of our republic. From this axiom we understand that powers used by the government without the consent of the governed, are _not just_ powers, but that on the contrary, they are _unjust_ powers, _usurped_ powers, _illegal_ powers. In what way does the consent of the governed come? By and through the ballot alone. The ballot answers questions. It says yes, or no. It declares what _principles_ shall rule; it says what _laws_ shall be made, it tells what _taxes_ are to be raised; it places men in office or lays their heads low in the dust. It is the _will_ of a man embodied in that little piece of paper; it is the consent of the governed.