here from every quarter of the Union,
little knights and great knights, without distinction of sex, to
take anew at her hands the oath of loyal service to the cause of
universal liberty. Those of us who have followed her through all
these years know that she has been a knight without reproach, that
her head has been level and her heart true. Faithful to the cause
of her sex, she has been broad enough to grasp great general
principles. She has been not only an advocate of equal rights, but
the prophet of humanity; and a better advocate of equal rights
because a prophet of humanity. There never has been a time when
Whittier's lines concerning Sumner would not have been applicable
to her:

"Wherever wrong doth right deny,
Or suffering spirits urge their plea,
Here is a voice to smite the lie,
A hand to set the captive free."

Nineteenth century chivalry renders all honor to that type of
womanhood of which she is an illustrious example.

Robert Purvis eloquently referred to Miss Anthony's grand work for the
abolition of slavery, which, he said, was still continued in the vaster
and more complicated work for the freedom of women. Mrs. Stanton's two
daughters, Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Blatch, made sparkling responses.
Representative J. A. Pickler said in part:

Five years since, when a member of the Dakota legislature and in
charge of the bill giving full suffrage to women, I was
characterized in the public press as "Susan B. Pickler." I look
upon this as one of the greatest honors ever bestowed upon me. I
have never learned how Miss Anthony regarded it....

Unswerved by the shafts of ridicule, without love of gain, she has
sublimely borne through all these years ridicule and reproach for
principle, for humanity, for womanhood. The soldier battles amid
the plaudits of his countrymen, the statesman supported by his
party, the clergyman sanctioned by his church, but alone, this
great woman has stood for half a century, contending for the rights
of women. Says Professor Swing: "Mark any life pervaded by a worthy
plan, and how beautiful it is! Webster, Gladstone, Sumner,
Disraeli; fifty years were these temples in the building!" How
aptly these words describe our great advocate of woman. Gratifying
it must be to Susan B.