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

It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.

Which word best describes Anthony’s tone in this excerpt?

uncertain
confident
flattering
anxious

confident