art of the Nation as no other speaker ever did.
Anna E. Dickinson has never feared to utter the boldest truths,
has never shrunk from, or withheld the most scathing rebukes of
sin in high places, has never faltered or failed in principle,
and yet is to-day a far more popular lecturer than those who have
pandered to a corrupt, vitiated public taste. Does this not prove
that the deep heart of the people is better than it has the
credit of being.

About the same time Theodore Tilton threw into the scale his
brilliant and varied talents, and the _Independent_, of which he
was editor, was found on the side of freedom for all. Judge
Samuel E. Sewall, always on the right side in every good work,
published, in 1868, a digest of the laws of Massachusetts in
relation to woman's disabilities, which has done good work.
Later, Prof. Hickox prepared one of like character for
Connecticut, which is enough to rouse the women of that State to
white heat.

Within the last two years of the second decade many new speakers
have appeared on our platform. Standing first is Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore, a woman of rare powers of oratory. Possessing a
magnetism which grasps and holds her audience whether they will
or no, she is a special pleader, and if her logic is not always
perfect it is most effective, for she has the power of unlocking
the hearts of her hearers. She has made within the last two years
extensive lecturing tours in the North and West, and verging
toward the South. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe came in November, 1868,
and laid her rich gifts on the altar of freedom, and has often
been heard in conventions, and twice or thrice before the
Legislature of Massachusetts. Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, from
the family of ministers, also came about this time with her ready
available talents. Phoebe Couzins and Lilie Peckham, alike
generous, enthusiastic, cultured, and above all of high-toned
principles, lead a strong band of young workers. Charlotte B.
Wilbour, gifted in a high degree, calm in judgment and steady in
purpose, is always a tower of strength. Celia Burleigh, graceful,
poetic and earnest, is equally at home on the platform or in the
drawing-room, and Lillie Devereux Blake is always ready with pen
or voice. Myra Bradwell, with her legal knowledge, is anoth