grayheaded negro still lives, though
many of their old houses and barns yet stand, crumbling away on
their deserted farms.

In front of the house is a small yard and occupying one-half of it
is a grand old boulder with steps leading to the top, where one
sees chiseled in large letters, "John Brown, December 2, 1859." At
the foot is the grave of the martyr, marked by an old granite
headstone which once stood at his grandfather's grave, and on it
are inscribed the names of three generations of John Browns. The
vandals visiting that sacred spot chipped off bits of the granite
until it became necessary to make a cover and padlock it down, so
that the farmer unlocks the cap and lifts it off for visitors now.
Thus is commemorated that fatal day which marks the only hanging
for treason against the United States Government. John Brown was
crucified for doing what he believed God commanded him to do, "to
break the yoke and let the oppressed go free," precisely as were
the saints of old for following what they believed to be God's
commands. The barbarism of our government was by so much the
greater as our light and knowledge are greater than those of two
thousand years ago....

July 25 is to be Suffrage Day at Chautauqua, and dear Mrs. Wallace
and Anna Shaw are to preach the gospel of equal rights. I do hope
Bishop Vincent will be present and there learn from those two, who
are surely "God's women," the law of love to thy neighbor--woman,
as to thyself--man. I am hoping the gate receipts on that day will
be greater than those of any other during the summer. Wouldn't that
tell the story of the interest in this question?

In June she accepted the urgent invitation of the Ignorance Club to
honor them by being their guest at their annual frolic on Manitou beach
and respond to a toast which should allow her to say anything she liked.
Three most enjoyable weeks were spent at home and during this time Miss
Anthony addressed the W. C. T. U. She expressed herself in no uncertain
tones as to the futility of third parties, declaring that the
Prohibition party already had taken some of the best temperance men out
of Congress, and made a speech so forcible that it lifted the bonnets of
some of the timid sisters. The evening paper reported:

... Rev. C. B. Gardner said Miss Anthony had given the company some