hose lectures she showed the low estimate of woman, and her
inferior education.

To this heroic woman, who left ease, elegance, a high social
circle of rich culture, and with true self-abnegation gave her
life, in the country of her adoption, to the teaching of her
highest idea of truth, it is fitting that we pay a tribute of
just, though late, respect. Her writings are of the purest and
noblest character, and whatever there is of error in them is
easily thrown aside. The spider sucks poison from the same flower
from which the bee gathers honey; let us therefore ask if the
evil be not in ourselves before we condemn others. Pharisaism,
then as now, was ready to stone the prophet of freedom. She bore
the calumny, reproach and persecution to which she was subjected
for the truth, as calmly as Socrates. Looking down from the
serene heights of her philosophy she pitied and endured the
scoffs and jeers of the multitude, and fearlessly continued to
utter her rebukes against oppression, ignorance and bigotry.
Women joined in the hue and cry against her, little thinking that
men were building the gallows and making them the executioners.
Women have crucified in all ages the redeemers of their own sex,
and men mock them with the fact. It is time now that we trample
beneath our feet this ignoble public sentiment which men have
made for us; and if others are to be crucified before we can be
redeemed, let men do the cruel, cowardly work; but let us learn
to hedge womanhood round with generous, protecting love and care.
Then men will learn, as they should, that this system of
traducing women is no longer to be used as a means for their
subjugation. Let us learn to demand that all men who come into
our presence be as pure as they claim that woman should be. Let
the test be applied which Christ gave, that if any is without sin
in word, or deed, or thought, he shall "cast the first stone."...

When the war ended and National reconstruction commenced, women,
feeling an equal interest in having the work rightly done,
presented their petitions for the right of suffrage, but were
coolly told by those who were most eager to enfranchise the
negro, "stand aside and wait, it is the black man's hour." The
sacrifice of their sons on the altar of freedom was not counted