ssed copy of the declaration to the Hon.
T. W. Ferry, who received it with a courteous bow; and afterward
on the steps of Independence Hall she read it to an assembled
multitude. She had done her centennial day's work for all time;
and small wonder that mind and body craved rest after such
tension. She is yet under a hundred dollars fine for voting at
Rochester, and although from her lectures the last six years she
has paid $10,000 indebtedness on _The Revolution_, she said she
never would have paid that fine had she been imprisoned till now.

Mrs. Lucretia Mott, whom the younger Hutchinson[17] assisted into
the pulpit--a beautiful sight to see cultured youth supporting
refined old age--stated that she went up there, "not because she
was higher-minded than the rest, but so that her enfeebled voice
might be better heard." The dear old soul is so much stronger
than her body, that it would seem that she must have greatly
overtasked herself; though an inspired soul has wonderful
recuperative forces at command for the temple it inhabits. A
goodly number of gentlemen were present at this meeting and that
of the day before--three or four of them making short speeches. A
Mr. Raper of England, strongly interested in the temperance and
woman suffrage cause, told us that in his country "all women
tax-payers voted for guardians of the poor, upon all educational
matters, and also upon all municipal affairs. In that respect she
was in advance of this professed republic. In England there is an
hereditary aristocracy, here, an aristocracy of sex"; or, as the
spirited Lillie Devereux Blake who was present once amusingly
termed it, of "the bifurcated garment." And now perhaps some
materially-minded person will ask, "What are you going to do
about it? You can't fight!" forgetting that we are now fighting
the greatest of all battles, and that the weapons of woman's
warfare, like her nature at its best development, are moral and
spiritual.

LEWISE OLIVER.
_Philadelphia_, July 13, 1876.

The press of the country commented extensively upon the action of
the women:

At noon to-day, in the First Unitarian church, corner Tenth and
South, the National Woman Suffrage Association will present the
Woman's Declaration of Rights.