ve times, and since 1848 I can not say
positively, but a good many times; you know all that better than
any one else.

Your affectionate friend,
ERNESTINE L. ROSE.

In collecting the reminiscences of those who took the initiative steps
in this movement, Mrs. Rose was urged to send us some of her
experiences, but in writing that it was impossible for her to do so,
and yet giving us the above summary of all she has accomplished,
_multum in parvo_, she has in a good measure complied with our
request.

All through these eventful years Mrs. Rose has fought a double battle;
not only for the political rights of her sex as women, but for their
religious rights as individual souls; to do their own thinking and
believing. How much of the freedom they now enjoy, the women of
America owe to this noble Polish woman, can not be estimated, for
moral influences are too subtle for measurement.

Those who sat with her on the platform in bygone days, well remember
her matchless powers as a speaker; and how safe we all felt while she
had the floor, that neither in manner, sentiment, argument, nor
repartee, would she in any way compromise the dignity of the occasion.

She had a rich musical voice, with just enough of foreign accent and
idiom to add to the charm of her oratory. As a speaker she was
pointed, logical, and impassioned. She not only dealt in abstract
principles clearly, but in their application touched the deepest
emotions of the human soul.

FOOTNOTES:

[12] Published by Frederick Douglass, the first colored man that
edited a paper in this country. His press was presented to him by the
women of England, who sympathized with the anti-slavery movement.

[13] Fasting with Jews meant abstaining from food and drink from
before sunset one evening, until after the stars were out the next
evening.

CHAPTER VI.

OHIO.

The promised land of fugitives--"Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Salem
Convention, 1850--Akron, 1851--Massilon, 1852--The address to the
women of Ohio--The Mohammedan law forbids pigs, dogs, women, and
other impure animals to enter a Mosque--The _New York Tribune_--
Cleveland Convention, 1853--Hon. Joshua R. Giddings--Letter from
Horace Greeley--A glowing eulogy to Mary Wollstonecroft--William
Henry Channing's Declaration--The pulpit responsible for public
sentiment--President Asa Mahan debat