we should send them
to London to make a part of the staff of the London _Times_. I
think they would do better there than anywhere else. (Laughter).

The Hutchinson Family being present, varied the proceedings with their
inspiring songs. Lucy Stone, in introducing them, said Gen. McClellan
was not willing they should sing on the other side of the Potomac, but
we are glad to hear them everywhere. Susan B. Anthony presented a
series of resolutions,[43] and said:

There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be
made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is a
war to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us
if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in
freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and
West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.

Instead of suppressing the real cause of the war, it should have
been proclaimed, not only by the people, but by the President,
Congress, Cabinet, and every military commander. Instead of
President Lincoln's waiting two long years before calling to the
side of the Government the four millions of allies whom we have
had within the territory of rebeldom, it should have been the
first decree he sent forth. Every hour's delay, every life
sacrificed up to the proclamation that called the slave to
freedom and to arms, was nothing less than downright murder by
the Government. For by all the laws of common-sense--to say
nothing of laws military or national--if the President, as
Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, could have devised any
possible means whereby he might hope to suppress the rebellion,
without the sacrifice of the life of one loyal citizen, without
the sacrifice of one dollar of the loyal North, it was clearly
his duty to have done so. Every interest of the insurgents, every
dollar of their property, every institution, however peculiar,
every life in every rebel State, even, if necessary, should have
been sacrificed, before one dollar or one man should have been
drawn from the free States. How much more, then, was it the
President's duty to confer freedom on the four million slaves,
transform them into a peaceful army for the Union, cripple the
rebellion, and establish justice, the only sure foundation of
peace! I therefo