, as an
integral half of the people, had obtained all the rights and
privileges proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, the granting
of which alone could make of our country a sound and true Republic and
secure the ultimate triumph of the moral and humane considerations and
measures upon which its welfare must depend.

Naturally, when this growing party came to know of Miss Carroll's
remarkable work they were not disposed to let it fall into oblivion.
It seemed as if the Lord himself had declared for their cause in
giving to a woman, at the crisis of the national peril, the remarkable
illumination that, so far as human knowledge can judge, had turned the
scale of war in favor of our National Union, and had thus pledged the
country for all future time to the just recognition of the equal
rights of women as an integral half of the people, and of equal
importance with their brethren to the welfare of the State. Every
effort may be made to ignore and hide the remarkable fact, but the
work of the Lord remains steadfast, immovable, and incapable of
lasting defeat.

"The moving finger writes,
And, having writ,
Moves on."

A notice of Miss Carroll and her brilliant achievements had been
written by Mrs. Matilda Joselyn Gage and incorporated in the history
of Woman Suffrage, a considerable work, giving a sketch of the career
of many eminent women. Mrs. Gage also wrote and circulated a pamphlet
calling attention to the case, and Miss Phoebe Couzzins made great
exertions in her behalf. One and another began to inquire what had
become of the woman who had done such wondrous work for the national
cause and had been treated with such deep ingratitude. Mrs. Cornelia
C. Hussey, daughter of a high-principled New York family of friends,
sought her out, visited her at Baltimore, cheered her with her
sympathy, and, interesting others in her behalf, she was enabled to
strengthen the hands of the devoted sister. She induced the _North
American Review_, of April, 1886, to publish an account furnished by
Miss Carroll, and she procured the publication of a series of letters
in the _Woman's Journal_, of Boston, that increased the knowledge and
interest beginning to be felt for Miss Carroll's work.

Petitions began to pour in asking Congress to take action in the case.
In 1885 it was taken up by the Court of Claims, and in case 93 may be
seen the result. The evidence presented, though remar