Anti-Slavery Standard."]

Just as our paper is going to press, there comes to us
intelligence of the death of our beloved and revered friend,
Esther Moore, widow of the late Dr. Robert Moore, of
Philadelphia. She expired on Tuesday morning, November 21st,
1854, of gout of the heart, after a short, but painful illness,
in the eightieth year of her age.

The writer of this first became acquainted with her in 1836,
and, at various times since then, has met her at Anti-slavery
meetings, or in familiar intercourse at her own house. Her most
remarkable traits of character were an intense hatred of
oppression in all its forms, a corresponding love for the
oppressed, an untiring devotion to their welfare, and a courage
that never quailed before any obstacles, however formidable. Her
zeal in behalf of the Anti-slavery cause, and especially in
behalf of the fugitive, a zeal that absorbed all the powers of
her noble nature, was a perpetual rebuke to the comparative
coldness and indifference of those around her. We well remember
how her soul was fired with a righteous indignation when upwards
of thirty innocent persons, most of them colored people, were
thrown into prison at Philadelphia, upon a charge of treason,
for their alleged participation in the tragedy at Christiana.
Day after day did she visit the prisoners in their cells, to
minister to their wants, and cheer them in their sorrow; and
during the progress of Hanway's trial, her constant presence in
the court-room, and her frequent interviews with the District
Attorney, attested her deep anxiety as to the result of the
impending struggle. When we last saw her, about a month since,
she was engaged in collecting a large sum of money to ransom a
family of slaves, whose peculiar condition had enlisted her
deepest sympathy. Notwithstanding her age and infirmities, she
had enlisted in this work with a zeal which, even in a younger
person, would have been remarkable. For many days, perhaps for
many weeks, she went from door to door, asking for the means
whereby to secure the freedom and the happiness of an enslaved
and plundered household.

As a member of the Society of Friends, she lamented the guilty
supineness of that body, in regard to the question of Slavery,
and often, in its meetings, as well as in private intercourse,