city. Over him is a monument, placed there by
that other true friend of women, Gerrit Smith of Peterboro....

I have seen the Hutchinson family in a mob in New York. When
neither Mr. Garrison, Mr. Phillips nor Mr. Burleigh, nor any one
could speak, when there was a perfect tempest and whirlwind of
rowdyism in the old Tabernacle on Broadway, then this family
would sing, and almost upon the instant that they would raise
their voices, so perfect was the music, so sweet the concord, so
enchanting the melody, that it came down upon the audience like a
summer shower on a dusty road, subduing, settling everything.

I can not add to the paper which Mrs. Stanton has sent. After
her--silence. Your cause has raised up no voice so potent as that
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton--no living voice except yours, Madame
President.

How delighted I am to see that you have the image of Lucretia
Mott here [referring to her marble bust on the stage]. I am glad
to be here, glad to be counted on your side, and glad to be able
to remember that those who have gone before were my friends. I
was more indebted to Whittier perhaps than to any other of the
anti-slavery people. He did more to fire my soul and enable me to
fire the souls of others than any other man. It was Whittier and
Pierpont who feathered our arrows, shot in the direction of the
slave power, and they did it well. No better reading can now be
had in favor of the rights of woman or the liberties of man than
is to be found in their utterances....

Miss Clara Barton (D. C.) spoke in a touching manner of the great
service rendered to humanity by Dr. Harriet N. Austin, who assisted
Dr. James C. Jackson to establish the "Home on the Hillside," the
Dansville (N. Y.) Sanitorium. Henry B. Blackwell told of John L.
Whiting, "a power and a strength to the Massachusetts Suffrage
Association for many years, one of those rare men not made smaller by
wealth, and always willing to give himself, his mind, his heart, his
money, to help the cause of woman." The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw said in
part:

I have been asked to speak a word of Mrs. Ralph Waldo Emerson. It
has been said by some people that we have wrongfully quoted Mr.
Emerson as being on our side. His biographers appear to have put
in his early statements and forgotten to include his later
declaration