er to
be grateful for; and with pride the names of Elizabeth O.
Willard, Catherine B. Waite, and Elizabeth Boynton are recorded
as having given their rare gifts to this work. We gladly pay
tribute to James W. Stillman, of Rhode Island, who has given most
generously of time, money, and, above all, talents, to this
cause, and that, at a time when ridicule and even the sacrifice
of position followed. His logical argument on the inherent right
of self-government has done great service.

Looking back over the names of our co-workers, those of Hannah
Tracy Cutler, and Frances D. Gage, and Jane Elizabeth M. Jones
are widely honored. Another of this class is Josephine S.
Griffing, a woman of rare endowments intellectually, with a heart
as true and gentle as God ever gave to woman. Modest, almost to a
fault, she is the unseen power that moves the machinery in the
very heart of the nation; asking no recognition, no applause, she
works on with a steady, systematic, careful earnestness which
commands the respect of the best and wisest.

Early among women journalists Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm stands out
conspicuously. The Pittsburg _Saturday Visitor_, which she edited
for several years with marked ability, was the paper most often
quoted, and made war upon by all opposers of progress. Mrs. C. I.
H. Nichols also edited the Windham Co. _Democrat_, in
Brattleboro, Vt., with much ability, and though less radical and
aggressive than Mrs. Swisshelm's paper, it is to the seed sown by
her head and hands that all the spirit of progress there is in
that county is due.

There is yet one other name that well deserves not one page but
many, for his good deeds and unselfish work. A man with a strong,
vigorous mind, a quick conception of principles and perfectly
fearless in his advocacy of them, holding always his personality
so in reserve as sometimes to be overlooked among the many more
assuming. Parker Pillsbury was for some time editor of the
_National Anti-Slavery Standard_, and co-editor of the
_Revolution_. His editorials have been marked by an almost
prophetic spirit; and the profoundness of their thought will be
more justly appreciated as there is a larger development and a
higher demand for unqualified justice. The Hutchinson family were
among our ea