American Women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony, in her 1873 Speech addresses her imprisonment in order to call attention to women's voting rights. Anthony was arrested, tried, and fined $100 for voting in the 1872 presidential election. In this speech, she informs her audience that she is laboring "under the indictment for the alleged crime of having voted last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote". This event has created within her a sense of urgency and she now embarks on her journey to change the laws for women's rights. In order to prove that women deserve these rights, Anthony utilizes logical reasoning in order to make her speech more effective, by using quoted material, of US government legal documents such as
