id removed from it, after which
there was a period of silence.

Presently the venerable Lucretia Mott arose and said that,
seeing the gathering of the multitude there and thronging along
the streets, as she had passed on her way to the meeting-house,
she had thought of the multitude which gathered after the death
of Jesus, and of the remark of the Centurion, who, seeing the
people, said: "Certainly this was a righteous man." Looking at
this multitude she would say surely this also was a righteous
man. She was not one of those who thought it best always on
occasions like this, to speak in eulogy of the dead, but this
was not an ordinary case, and seeing the crowd that had
gathered, and amongst it the large numbers of a once despised
and persecuted race, for which the deceased had done so much,
she felt that it was fit and proper that the good deeds of this
man's life should be remembered, for the encouragement of
others. She spoke of her long acquaintance with him, of his
cheerful and sunny disposition, and his firm devotion to the
truth as he saw it.

Aaron M. Powell, of New York, was the next speaker, and he spoke
at length with great earnestness of the life-long labor of his
departed friend in the abolition cause, of his cheerfulness, his
courage, and his perfect consecration to his work.

He alluded to the fact, that deceased was a member of the
Society of Friends, and held firmly to its faith that God leads
and inspires men to do the work He requires of them, that He
speaks within the soul of every man, and that all men are
equally His children, subject to His guidance, and that all
should be free to follow wherever the Spirit might lead. It was
Thomas Garrett's recognition of this sentiment that made him an
abolitionist, and inspired him with the courage to pursue his
great work. He cared little for the minor details of Quakerism,
but he was a true Quaker in his devotion to this great central
idea which is the basis on which it rests. He urged the Society
to take a lesson from the deceased, and recognizing the
responsibility of their position, to labor with earnestness, and
to consecrate their whole beings to the cause of right and
reform. It is impossible for us to give any fair abstract of Mr.
Powell's earnest and eloquent tribute to his friend, on whom he