Read the excerpt from Susan B. Anthony’s “ On Women's Right to Vote.”

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people—women as well as men.

In this excerpt, Anthony mostly uses which kind of persuasive technique?

A. an appeal to emotions
B. logical reasoning
C. evidence of facts
D. an appeal to ethics