d never felt before. "I, too, can make a
stone man," she said. Almost instinctively, she turned to that great
Apostle of Human Liberty, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, and asked his advice.
The kind-hearted agitator gave her a note to Mr. Brackett, the Boston
sculptor. He received her kindly, heard her express the desire and
ambition of her heart, and then giving her a model of a human foot and
some clay, said: "Go home and make that. If there is any thing in you
it will come out." She tried, but her teacher broke up her work and
told her to try again. And so she did, and triumphed.

Since then, this ambitious Negro girl has won a position as an artist,
a studio in Rome, and a place in the admiration of the lovers of art
on two continents. She has produced many meritorious works of art, the
most noteworthy being _Hagar in the Wilderness_; a group of the
_Madonna with the Infant Christ and_ _two adoring Angels_; _Forever
Free_; _Hiawatha's Wooing_; a bust of _Longfellow, the Poet_; a bust
of _John Brown_; and a medallion portrait of _Wendell Phillips_. The
_Madonna_ was purchased by the Marquis of Bute, Disraeli's Lothair.

She has been well received in Rome, and her studio has become an
object of interest to travellers from all countries.

Of late many intelligent young Colored women have risen to take their
places in society, and as wives and mothers are doing much to elevate
the tone of the race and its homes. Great care must be given to the
education of the Colored women of America; for virtuous, intelligent,
educated, cultured, and pious wives and mothers are the hope of the
Negro race. Without them educated Colored men and the miraculous
results of emancipation will go for nothing.

FOOTNOTES:

[123] Hiram R. Revels was the successor of Mr. Jefferson Davis. He was
a Methodist preacher from Mississippi. It was our privilege to be
present in the Senate when he was sworn in and took his seat.

[124] This idea had been put forth in a speech by Alexander H.
Stephens just after he had been chosen Vice-president of the
Confederate States.

[125] My Bondage and My Freedom, p. 396.

[126] While this history is passing through the press, the sad
intelligence comes of the death, after a painful illness, of his
beloved wife. All through her life she was justly proud of her husband
and children; and she leaves a precious memory.

[127] Mr. Greener was turned back one year upon the ground of alleged
imperfection in mathematics;