Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 — Chapter 28 - My eightieth birthday

CHAPTER XXVIII. MY EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY.

Without my knowledge or consent, my lifelong friend, Susan B. Anthony, who always seems to appreciate homage tendered to me more highly than even to herself, made arrangements for the celebration of my eightieth birthday, on the 12th day of November, 1895. She preferred that this celebration should be conducted by the National Council of Women, composed of a large number of organizations representing every department of woman's labor, though, as the enfranchisement of woman had been my special life work, it would have been more appropriate if the celebration had been under the auspices of the National Woman's Suffrage Association.

Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, President of the National Council of Women, assumed the financial responsibility and the extensive correspondence involved, and with rare tact, perseverance, and executive ability made the celebration a complete success.

In describing this occasion I cannot do better than to reproduce, in part, Mrs. Dickinson's account, published in _The Arena_: "In the month of June, 1895, the National Council of Women issued the following invitation: "'Believing that the progress made by women in the last half century may be promoted by a more general notice of their achievements, we propose to hold, in New York city, a convention for this purpose.

As an appropriate time for such a celebration, the eightieth birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been chosen.

Her half century of pioneer work for the rights of women makes her name an inspiration for such an occasion and her life a fitting object for the homage of all women.

"'This National Council is composed of twenty organizations; these and all other societies interested are invited to co-operate in grateful recognition of the debt the present generation owes to the pioneers of the past.

From their interest in the enfranchisement of women, the influence of Mrs. Stanton and her coadjutor, Miss Anthony, has permeated all departments of progress and made them a common center round which all interested in woman's higher development may gather.'

"To this invitation came responses, from the Old World and the New, expressing sympathy with the proposed celebration, which was intended to emphasize a great principle by showing the loftiness of character that had resulted from its embodiment in a unique personality.

The world naturally thinks of the personality before it thinks of the principle.

It has, at least, so much unconscious courtesy left as to honor a noble woman, even when failing to rightly apprehend a noble cause.

To afford this feeling its proper expression, to render more tangible all vague sympathy, to crystallize the growing sentiment in favor of human freedom, to give youth the opportunity to reverence the glory of age, to give hearts their utterances in word and song was perhaps the most popular purpose of the reunion.

In other words, it gave an opportunity for those who revered Mrs. Stanton as a queen among women to show their reverence, and to recognize the work her life had wrought, and to see in it an epitome of the progress of a century.

"The celebration was also an illustration of the distinctive idea of the National Council of Women, which aims to give recognition to all human effort without demanding uniformity of opinion as a basis of co-operation.

It claims to act upon a unity of service, notwithstanding differences of creed and methods.

The things that separate, shrank back into the shadows where they belong, and all hearts brave enough to think, and tender enough to feel, found it easy to unite in homage to a life which had known a half century of struggle to lift humanity from bondage and womanhood from shame.

"This reunion was the first general recognition of the debt the present owes to the past.

It was the first effort to show the extent to which later development has been inspired and made possible by the freedom to think and work claimed in that earlier time by women like Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Mrs. Stanton, and many others whose names stand as synonyms of noble service for the race.

To those who looked at the reunion from this point of view it could not fail of inspiration.

"For the followers in lines of philanthropic work to look in the faces and hear the voices of women like Clara Barton and Mary Livermore; for the multitude enlisted in the crowded ranks of literature to feel in the living presence, what literature owes to women like Julia Ward Howe; for the white ribbon army to turn from its one great leader of to-day whose light, spreading to the horizon, does not obscure or dim the glory of the crusade leaders of the past; for art lovers and art students to call to mind sculptors like Harriet Hosmer and Anna Whitney, and remember the days when art was a sealed book to women; for the followers of the truly divine art of healing to honor the Blackwell sisters and the memory of Mme.

Clemence Lozier; for the mercy of surgery to reveal itself in the face of Dr. Cushier, who has proved for us that heart of pity and hand of skill need never be divorced; for women lifting their eyes to meet the face of Phebe A. Hanaford and Anna Shaw and other women who to-day in the pulpit, as well as out of it, may use a woman's right to minister to needy souls; for the ofttime sufferers from unrighteous law to welcome women lawyers; for the throng of working women to read backward through the story of four hundred industries to their beginning in the 'four,' and remember that each new door had opened because some women toiled and strove; for all these the exercises were a part of a great thanksgiving paean, each phase of progress striking its own chord, and finding each its echo in the hearts that held it dear.

"To the student of history, or to him who can read the signs of the times, there was such a profound significance in this occasion as makes one shrink from dwelling too much upon the external details.

Yet as a pageant only it was a most inspiring sight, and one truly worthy of a queen.

Indeed as we run the mind back over the pages of history, what queen came to a more triumphant throne in the hearts of a grateful people?

What woman ever before sat silver-crowned, canopied with flowers, surrounded not by servile followers but by men and women who brought to her court the grandest service they had wrought, their best thought crystallized in speech and song.

Greater than any triumphal procession that ever marked a royal passage through a kingdom was it to know that in a score or more of cities, in many a village church on that same night festive fires were lighted, and the throng kept holiday, bringing for tribute not gold and gems but noblest aspirations, truest gratitude, and highest ideals for the nation and the race.

"The great meeting was but one link in a chain; yet with its thousands of welcoming faces, with its eloquence of words, with its offering of sweetest song from the children of a race that once was bound but now is free, with its pictured glimpses of the old time and the new flashing out upon the night, with the home voices offering welcome and gratitude and love, with numberless greetings, from the great, true, brave souls of many lands, it was indeed a wonderful tribute, worthy of the great warm heart of a nation that offered it, and worthy of the woman so revered.

"It seemed fitting that Mme.

Antoinette Sterling, who, twenty years ago, took her wonderful voice away to England, where it won for her a unique place in the hearts of the nation, should, on returning to her country, give her first service to the womanhood of her native land.

'I am coming a week earlier,' so she had written, 'that my first work in my own beloved America may be done for women.

I am coming as a woman and not as an artist, and because I so glory in that which the women of my country have achieved.'

So when she sang out of her heart, 'O rest in the Lord;

wait patiently for him!'

no marvel that it seemed to lift all listening hearts to a recognition of the divine secret and source of power for all work.

"One charming feature of the entertainment was a series of pictures called 'Then and Now,' each illustrating the change in woman's condition during the last fifty years.

And after this, upon the dimness there shone out, one after another, the names of noble women like Mary Lyon, Maria Mitchell, Emma Willard, and many others who have passed away.

Upon the shadows and the silence broke Mme.

Sterling's voice in Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar.'

And when this was over, as with one voice, the whole audience sang softly 'Auld Lang Syne.'

"And last but not least should be mentioned the greetings that poured in a shower of telegrams and letters from every section of the country, and many from over the sea.

These expressions, not only of personal congratulation for Mrs. Stanton, but utterances of gladness for the progress in woman's life and thought, for the conditions, already so much better than in the past, and for the hope for the future, would make of themselves a most interesting and wonderful chapter.

Among them may be mentioned letters from Lord and Lady Aberdeen, from Lady Henry Somerset and Frances E. Willard, from Canon Wilberforce, and many others, including an address from thirty members of the family of John Bright, headed by his brother, the Right Honorable Jacob Bright; a beautifully engrossed address, on parchment, from the National Woman Suffrage Society of Scotland, an address from the London Women's Franchise League, and a cablegram from the Bristol Women's Liberal Association; a letter from the Women's Rights Society of Finland, signed by its president, Baroness Gripenberg of Helsingfors; telegrams from the California Suffrage Pioneers; and others from the Chicago Woman's Club, from the Toledo and Ohio Woman's Suffrage Society, from the son of the Rev. Dr. William Ellery Channing, and a telegram and letter from citizens and societies of Seneca Falls, New York, accompanied with flowers and many handsome pieces of silver from the different societies.

There were also letters from Hon. Oscar S. Strauss, ex-minister to Turkey, Miss Ellen Terry, and scores of others.

An address was received from the Women's Association of Utah, accompanied by a beautiful onyx and silver ballot box; and from the Shaker women of Mount Lebanon came an ode; a solid silver loving cup from the New York City Suffrage League, presented on the platform with a few appropriate words by its President, Mrs. Devereux Blake.

"Hundreds of organizations and societies, both in this country and abroad, wished to have their names placed on record as in sympathy with the movement.

Many organizations were present in a body, and one was reminded, by the variety and beauty of the decorations of their boxes, of the Venetian Carnival, as the occupants gazed down from amid the silken banners and the flowers, upon the throng below.

The whole occasion was indeed a unique festival, unique in its presentation, as well as in its purpose, plan, character, and spirit.

No woman present could fail to be impressed with what we owe to the women of the past, and especially to this one woman who was the honored guest of the occasion.

And no young woman could desire to forget the picture of this aged form as, leaning upon her staff, Mrs. Stanton spoke to the great audience of over six thousand, as she had spoken hundreds of times before in legislative halls, and whenever her word could influence the popular sentiment in favor of justice for all mankind."

My birthday celebration, with all the testimonials of love and friendship I received, was an occasion of such serious thought and deep feeling as I had never before experienced.

Having been accustomed for half a century to blame rather than praise, I was surprised with such a manifestation of approval; I could endure any amount of severe criticism with complacency, but such an outpouring of homage and affection stirred me profoundly.

To calm myself during that week of excitement, I thought many times of Michelet's wise motto, "Let the weal and woe of humanity be everything to you, their praise and blame of no effect; be not puffed up with the one nor cast down with the other."

Naturally at such a time I reviewed my life, its march and battle on the highways of experience, and counted its defeats and victories.

I

remembered when a few women called the first convention to discuss their disabilities, that our conservative friends said: "You have made a great mistake, you will be laughed at from Maine to Texas and beyond the sea;

God has set the bounds of woman's sphere and she should be satisfied with her position."

Their prophecy was more than realized; we were unsparingly ridiculed by the press and pulpit both in England and America.

But now many conventions are held each year in both countries to discuss the same ideas; social customs have changed; laws have been modified; municipal suffrage has been granted to women in England and some of her colonies; school suffrage has been granted to women in half of our States, municipal suffrage in Kansas, and full suffrage in four States of the Union.

Thus the principle scouted in 1848 was accepted in England in 1870, and since then, year by year, it has slowly progressed in America until the fourth star shone out on our flag in 1896, and Idaho enfranchised her women!

That first convention, considered a "grave mistake" in 1848, is now referred to as "a grand step in progress."

My next mistake was when, as president of the New York State Woman's Temperance Association, I demanded the passage of a statute allowing wives an absolute divorce for the brutality and intemperance of their husbands.

I addressed the Legislature of New York a few years later when a similar bill was pending, and also large audiences in several of our chief cities, and for this I was severely denounced.

To-day fugitives from such unholy ties can secure freedom in many of the Western States, and enlightened public sentiment sustains mothers in refusing to hand down an appetite fraught with so many evil consequences.

This, also called a "mistake" in 1860, was regarded as a "step in progress" a few years later.

Again, I urged my coadjutors by speeches, letters, and resolutions, as a means of widespread agitation, to make the same demands of the Church that we had already made of the State.

They objected, saying, "That is too revolutionary, an attack on the Church would injure the suffrage movement."

But I steadily made the demand, as opportunity offered, that women be ordained to preach the Gospel and to fill the offices as elders, deacons, and trustees.

A few years later some of these suggestions were accepted.

Some churches did ordain women as pastors over congregations of their own, others elected women deaconesses, and a few churches allowed women, as delegates, to sit in their conferences.

Thus this demand was in a measure honored and another "step in progress" taken.

In 1882 I tried to organize a committee to consider the status of women in the Bible, and the claim that the Hebrew Writings were the result of divine inspiration.

It was thought very presumptuous for women not learned in languages and ecclesiastical history to undertake such work.

But as we merely proposed to comment on what was said of women in plain English, and found these texts composed only one-tenth of the Old and New Testaments, it did not seem to me a difficult or dangerous undertaking.

However, when Part I. of "The Woman's Bible" was published, again there was a general disapproval by press and pulpit, and even by women themselves, expressed in resolutions in suffrage and temperance conventions.

Like other "mistakes," this too, in due time, will be regarded as "a step in progress."

Such experiences have given me confidence in my judgment, and patience with the opposition of my coadjutors, with whom on so many points I disagree.

It requires no courage now to demand the right of suffrage, temperance legislation, liberal divorce laws, or for women to fill church offices--these battles have been fought and won and the principle governing these demands conceded.

But it still requires courage to question the divine inspiration of the Hebrew Writings as to the position of woman.

Why should the myths, fables, and allegories of the Hebrews be held more sacred than those of the Assyrians and Egyptians, from whose literature most of them were derived?

Seeing that the religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences, I feel impelled to reiterate my demands for justice, liberty, and equality in the Church as well as in the State.

The birthday celebration was to me more than a beautiful pageant; more than a personal tribute.

It was the dawn of a new day for the Mothers of the Race!

The harmonious co-operation of so many different organizations, with divers interests and opinions, in one grand jubilee was, indeed, a heavenly vision of peace and hope; a prophecy that with the exaltation of Womanhood would come new Life, Light, and Liberty to all mankind.

INDEX OF NAMES.

* * * * * Aberdeen, _Lord_ and _Lady_, Addington, Laura, Albert, _Prince_, Alcott, A. Bronson, Alcott, Louisa M. , Allison, Miss, Amberly, _Lord_ and _Lady_, Ames, Mary Clemmer, Anderson, Dr. Garrett, André, _Major_ John, Andrews, _Governor_ John A. , Anthony, Daniel, Anthony, _Senator_ Henry B. , Anthony, Lucy, Anthony, Mary, Anthony, Susan B. , Arnold, _General_ Benedict, Arnold, Matthew, Astor, John Jacob, Auchet, Hubertine, Austin, _Dr_.

Harriet N. , Ayer, Mrs. J.

C.

, Backus, Wealthea, Bagley, _Governor_, Bagley, Mrs. , Baird, _General_, Baldwin, Elizabeth McMartin, Balgarnie, Miss, Banning, Ella B. , Banning, William L. , Barclay, Cornelia, Barrau, Caroline de, Bartlett, Paul, Barton, Clara, Bascom, Mr. , Bascora, Mary, Bayard, _Dr_.

Edward, Bayard, Henry, Bayard, Thomas F. , Bayard, Tryphena Cady, Beach, Myron, Beaman, _Rev.

Dr_.

, Becker, Lydia, Beecher, Catharine, Beecher, _Rev_.

Henry Ward, Bellamy, Edward, Bellows, Rev. Henry, Benedict, Lewis, Bently, _Judge_, Berry, Mme.

, Berry, Marguerite, Berry, Mrs. , Bertaux, Mme.

Léon, Besant, Annie, Bickerdyke, _Mother_, Biddle, Chapman, Biddle, George, Biggs, Caroline, Bigelow, John, Bigelow, Mrs. John, Bingham, John A. , Bird, Frank W. , Birney, James Gr.

, Bjornson, Bjornstjorne, Blackburn, Miss, Blackwell, Antoinette Brown, Blackwell, _Dr_.

Elizabeth, Blackwell, H. B.

, Blaine, _Senator_ James G. , Blaine, Mrs. James G. , Blair, _Senator_ Henry W. , Blake, Lillie Devereux, Blatch, Harriot Stanton, Blatch, Nora Stanton, Blatch, William H. , Blavatsky, Mme.

, Bloomer, Amelia, Bogelot, Isabella, Bogue, _Rev.

Dr_.

, Bonaparte, Napoleon, Botta, Anne Lynch, Boucherett, Jessie, Bowles, Samuel, Bradburn, George, Bradlaugh, _Hon_.

Charles, M, P. , Bradwell, Myra, Bright, _Hon_.

Jacob, M. P.

, Bright, Mrs. Jacob, Bright, _Hon_.

John, M. P.

, Broomall, John M. , Brougham, Henry, Lord, Brown, Antoinette L. , Brown, John, Brown, Olympia, Brown, Mr. , Browne, Sir Thomas, M. D.

, Browning, Robert, Brownson, Orestes A. , Bryan, William J..

Bryant, Miss, Bryant, William Cullen, Bullard, Laura Curtis, Burlingame, Anson, Burleigh, Celia, Burleigh, Mrs. William, Burnet, Rev. J.

, Burr, Frances Ellen, Burroughs, Herbert, Busbey, L. White, Bushnell, Horace, Butler, General Benjamin F. , Butler, Josephine, Byron, Lady, Byron, Lord, Cabot, Frederick, Cady, Judge Daniel, Cady, Eleazer, Cady, Margaret Livingston, Caird, Mona, Cameron, Judge Hugh, Carlisle, Lora and Lady, Carlyle, Thomas, Carnegie, Andrew, Carroll, Anna, Cary, Alice, Cary, Phoebe, Channing, Rev. Dr. William Ellery, Channing, Dr. William F. , Channing, Rev. William Henry, Chant, Ormiston, Chapman, Maria, Chase, William, Cheever, Rev. George B. , Child, Lydia Maria, Choate, Joseph H. , Christie, Margaret, Clark, Helen Bright, Clarkson, Thomas, Cleveland, Grover, Clinton, Governor De Witt C, Cluseret, General, Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. , Cobbe, Frances Power, Cobden, Jane, Cochrane, James, Cochrane, _General_ John, Cochrane, Mary, Colby, Clara B. , Cole, Senator Cornelius, Coleridge, Lady, Collyer, Rev. Robert, Combe, Andrew, Comte, Auguste, Conkling, Judge Alfred, Conkling, Roscoe, Conway, Rev. Moncure D. , Conway, Mrs. Moncure D. , Cooley, Judge Thomas M. , Couzins, Phoebe W. , Croly, Jennie C, Crowninshield, Captain A. S.

, Crowninshield, Mary, Cox, S. S.

, Coxe, Bishop, Curtis, George William, Cushier, Dr. , Cushman, Charlotte, Dana, Charles A. , Dana, Eunice MacDaniel, Darling, Anna B. , Darlington, Chandler, Darlington, Hannah, Davis, Edward M. , Davis.

Paulina Wright, Davitt, Michael.

Depesyrons, Professor, Deraismes, Mme.

Féresse, Deraismes, Maria, Dickinson, Anna E. , Dickinson, Mary Lowe, Dietrick, Ellen Battelle, Dilke, Mrs. Ashton, Dilke, Sir Charles, Dix, Dorothy, L. , Dix, General John A. , Douglass, Frederick, Douglass, Mr. , Dowden, Professor, Dudley, Blandina Bleecker, Dumas, Alexandre, Durand, Mme.

M. E.

, Dyer, Charles Gifford, Dyer, Hella, Eaton, Professor Amos B. , Eaton, Daniel C, Eaton, Harriet Cady, Eddy, Miss, Eddy, Mrs. Jackson, s Edmunds, Senator George F. , Eliot, George, Euet, Elizabeth F. , Ellsler, Fanny, Elmy, Mrs. , Emerson, Ralph Waldo, England, Isaac W. , England, Mrs. Isaac W. , Everett, Charles, Fabre, Senator Joseph, Fairchild, Governor Lucius, Faithful, Emily, Farnham, Mrs..

Fawcett, Henry, M. P.

, Fawcett, Milicent J. , Ferry, Jules, Ferry, Senator Thomas W. , Field, Rev. Dr. Henry M. , Field, Kate, Fine, Judge, Finney, Rev. Charles G. , Fitzhugh, Ann Carroll, Fitzhugh, Miss, Folsom, Abigail, Forbes, Arethusa, Forney, John W. , Foster, Abby Kelly, Foster, Rachel, Foster, Stephen, Frederic, Harold, Fremont, _General_ John C, French, Daniel C, Frothingham, _Rev_.

O.

B.

, Fronde, James Anthony, Fry, Elizabeth, Fuller, Kate, Fuller, Margaret, Fuller, W. J.

A.

, Furness, _Rev_.

William H. , Gage, Frances Dana, Gage, Matilda Joslyn, Gardener, Helen H. , Garibaldi, _General_ G. , Garrison, Gertrude, Garrison, William Lloyd, Garrison, Mrs. W.

L.

, Gay, Sidney Howard, Geddes, Mr. , George, Henry, Gestefeld, Ursula N. , Gibbons, Abby Hopper, Gillespie, Mrs. , Gladstone, _Right Hon_.

, William E. , Gladstone, Mrs. W.

E.

, Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin, William, Grant, _General_, Ulysses S. , Greeley, Horace, Greeley, Mrs. Horace, Greene, Beriah, Greenough, Mrs. W.

H.

, Greenwood, Grace, Gréville, Henri, Grévy, _President_ Jules, Grévy, Mme.

Jules, Grew, Mary, Grey, Maria G. , Grimké, Angelina, Grimké, Sarah, Gripenberg, _Baroness_ Alexandra, Gurney, John Joseph, Gurney, Samuel, Gustafsen, Mrs. , Hammond, _Dr_.

William A. , Hanaford, _Rev_.

Phebe A. , Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, Harberton, _Lady_, Harvey, _Rev_.

A.

, Hawley, _General_ Joseph R. , Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Hazeltine, Mayo W. , Heine, Heinrich, Hertell, _Judge_ Hertz, Fannie, Hicks, Elias, Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Hill, Octavia, Hill, _President_, Hinckley, _Rev_.

Frederick A. , Hoar, _Senator_ George F. , Hoggan, _Dr_.

Frances E. , Hoisington, Rev. William, Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Hooker, Isabella Beecher, Holyoake, George Jacob, Hosack, _Rev_.

Simon, Hoskins, Frances, Hosmer, Harriet, Hovey, Charles, Howe, Julia Ward, Howell, _Judge_, Howell, Mary Seymour, Howells, William D. , Howells, Mrs. William D. , Howitt, Mary, Hudson, Harriet, Hugo, Victor, Hunt, Jane, Hunt, _Dr_.

Harriet K. , Hunt, _Judge_ Ward, Hunt, Richard, Hurlbert, _Judge_, Huron, Mr. , Hutchinson, _Family_, Hutchins, Mr. , Hyacinthe, _Père_, Ingersoll, Robert G. , Jackson, Francis, Jackson, _Dr_.

James, Jackson, _Dr_.

Kate, Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. , Jackson, Mrs. , Jacobi, _Dr_.

Mary Putnam, Jameson, Anna, Janes, _Bishop_, Jarvis, Helen, Jenckes, Thomas A. , Jenkins, Lydia, Jenney, Mr. and Mrs. , Johnson, Adelaide, Johnson, Mariana, Johnson, Oliver, Johnson, _Sir_ William, Joly, _Professor_ Nicholas, Jones, Phoebe, June, Jennie, Kelley, William D. , Kelley, Abby, Kennan, George, Kent, _Chancellor_, Kergomard, Pauline, Kilpatrick, _General_, Kimber, Abby, King, _Captain_ Charles, Kingsford, Anna, Kingsley, _Canon_ Charles, Klumpke, Anna, Krapotkine, _Prince_, Laboulaye, Edouard R. L.

, LaFayette, _Marquis_ de, Lampson, _Father_, Lapham, Anson, Lauterbach, Mrs. Edward, Lawrence, Frank E. , Lawrence, Margaret Stanton, Lawson, _Sir_ Wilfrid, Leavitt, Joshua, Lecky, W. E.

H.

, Lee, Richard Henry, Lee, Theresa, Lieneff, Mr. , Lincoln, Abraham, Livermore, Mary A. , Livingston, Colonel James, Livingston, Margaret, Livingston, Mary, Logan, Olive, Long, Governor John D. , Longfellow, Henry W. , Longfellow, Rev. Samuel, Lord, Dr. , Lord, Emily, Lord, Frances, Louis Philippe, Lowell, James Russell, Lozier, Dr. Clemence S. , Lucas, Margaret Bright, Lyon, Mary, McClintock, Elizabeth, McClintock, Mary Ann, McKeon, Judge, McLaren, Charles, McLaren, Mrs. Charles, McLaren, Hon. Duncan, M. P.

, McLaren, Priscilla Bright, McLaren, Walter, McMartin, Donald, McMartin, Duncan, McMartin, Margaret Cady, MacDaniel, Eunice, MacDaniel, Frances L. , MacDaniel, Osborne, Macaulay, Thomas Babbington, Maire, Rev. Hugh, Mann, Horace, Mann, Prestona, Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, Mansfield, Mrs. A.

A.

, Marsh, Luther R. , Martineau, Harriet, Massey, Gerald, May, Rev. Samuel J. , Mellen, Mrs. William, Mendenhall, Dinah, Meredith, George, Michel, Louise, Michelet, Jules, Milinowski, Captain Arthur, Mill, John Stuart, Mill, Mrs. John Stuart, Miller, Charles Dudley, Miller, Colonel, Miller, Elizabeth Smith, Miller, Gerrit Smith, Miller, Jenness, Miller, John B. , Miller, Judge, Miller, Justice Samuel F. , Minor, Virginia L. , Mitchell, Dr. Julia, Mitchell, Dr. Kate, Mitchell, Professor Maria, Moffett, Rev. Dr. , Moliner, Professor, Morley, John, Morpeth, Lord, Morris, William, Morrison, Cotton, Morsier, Emilie de, Morton, Edwin, Mott, Lucretia, Mott, Lydia, Moulton, Louise Chandler, Moulton, Mrs. , Müller, Eva, Müller, Henrietta, Murray, Eliza, in, Napoleon, Neal, Elizabeth, Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, O'Connell, Daniel, go, O'Conor, Charles, Olmstead, Rev. John W. , Olmstead, Mary Livingston, Opie, Amelia, Orr, Mrs. , Osborne, Eliza W. , O'Shea, Mrs. Kitty, Owen, Robert Dale, Palmer, Senator John M. , Parker, Margaret, Parker, Theodore, Parkhurst, Mrs. , Parnell, Charles Stewart, Parsons, Chauncey C, Parsons, Mrs. Chauncey C, Patton, Rev. Dr. , Peabody, Elizabeth, Pearson, Karl, Pease, Elizabeth, Phelps, Elizabeth B. , Phillips, Ann Green, Phillips, Wendell, Pierpont, John, Pillsbury, Parker, Plumb, Senator Preston B. , Pochin, Mrs. , Pomeroy, "Brick," Powell, Aaron, Powell, Professor, Priestman, Annie, Priestman, Mary, Pugh, Sarah, Quincy, Edmund, Ramsey, Mr. , Reid, Mrs. Hugo, Remond, Charles, Richer, Léon, Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, Ripley, George, Ripley, Mrs. George, Richardson, Abby Sage, Ristori, Marchionesse Adelaide, Robinson, Governor Charles, Roby, Matilda, Rogers, Caroline Gilkey, Rogers, Nathaniel P. , Roland, Mme.

, Rosa, Mr. , Rose, Ernestine L. , Root, Elihu, Rouvier, M. , Runkle, Mrs. , Ruskin, John, Sackett, Fudge Gerrit V. , Sage, Russell, Sage, Mrs. Russell, Sanborn, Frank, Sanders, Mrs. Henry M. , Sargent, Senator Aaron A. , Sargent, Mrs. Aaron A. , Saville, Mrs. , Scatcherd, Alice Cliff, Scatcherd, Mr. , Schenck, Elizabeth B. , Schenck, Robert C, Scoble, Rev. John, Seaman, Mr. , Seidl, Professor, Sewall, May Wright, Sewall, Samuel E. , Sewall, Mrs. Samuel E. , Seward, Governor William H. , Seward, Mrs. William H. , Shaftesbury, Lord, Shaw, Rev. Anna, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Shelley, Percy Florence, Smalley, George W. , Smith, Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith, Elizabeth Oakes, Smith, Gerrit, Smith, Greene, Smith, Professor Horace, Smith, Mrs. Horace, Smith, Peter Sken, Smith, Sidney, Smith, Sisters, Somerset, Lady Henry, Southwick, Abby, Southwick, Joseph, Southwick.

Thankful, Southworth, Louisa, Spaulding, Bishop, Spence, Clara, Spencer, John C, Spencer, Sarah Andrews, Spofford, Jane Snow, Spofford, Mr. , Sprague, Governor William, Staël, Mme.

de, Stanford, Senator Leland, Stanley, Dean, Stansfeld, Mr. , M.

P.

, Stanton, Hon. Daniel Cady, Stanton, Edwin M. , Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Granddaughter of author, Stanton, _Hon_.

Gerrit Smith, Stanton, Harriot Eaton, Stanton, Henry, Stanton, _Hon_.

Henry Brewster, Stanton, Margaret Livingston, Stanton, Marguerite Berry, Stanton, Robert Livingston, Stanton, Theodore, Stead, William T. , Stebbins, Catharine F. , Stebbins, Giles, Stebbins, Mrs. , Steinthal, _Rev_.

Mr. , Stepniak, Sterling, Antoinette, Stevens, Thaddeus, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Stewart, Alvin, Stone, Lucy, Stout, _Rev_.

C.

, Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Straus, Oscar S. , Stuart, Charles, Stuart, _Dr_.

Jacob H. , Stuart, Mrs. Jacob H. , Stuart, _Professor_, Sturge, Joseph, Sumner, Charles, Sutherland, _Duchess_ of, Swift, Isabella, Swift, _Lieutenant_, Tanner, Mrs. , Taylor, Helen, Taylor, Mrs. Peter A. , Terry, Ellen, Thacher, _Mayor_, Thomson, Adeline, Thomasson, _Hon_.

John P. , _M.

P_.

, Thomasson, Mrs. John P. , Thompkins, _Governor_ Daniel D. , Thompson, George, Thompson, May Wright, Tilton, Theodore, Train, George Francis, Traut, Mme.

Griess, Tree, Ellen, Tudor, Mrs. Fenno, Tyler, _Professor_, Moses Coit, Tyng, _Dr_.

Stephen, Underhill, Zoe Dana, Van Vechten, Abraham, Vest, _Senator_ George G. , Victoria, _Queen_, Vignon, Claude, Villard, Fanny Garrison, Villard, Henry, Vincent, Henry, Virchow, _Professor_, Waite, _Chief Justice_ Morrison R. , Walter, Ellen Cochrane, Walsingham, _Sir_ Francis, "Warrington," Washington, _General_ George, Weed, Thurlow, Weld, Angelina Grimke, Weld, Theodore D. , Wellington, _Duke_ of, Wells, Emeline B. , West, Benjamin, Weston, Deborah, Whipple, E. P.

, Whitney, Anna, Whittier, John G. , Whittle, _Dr.

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