a nation to duty. Listen to the fearful indictment she records
against the system. And this was not slavery in its most brutal,
repulsive form. It was slavery hid in luxury, when refinement seemed
to temper some of its worst elements. But, with keen sense of right,
even a child of a dozen years saw through the veil, saw the system in
its inherent vileness, saw the real curse of slavery in the hardened
heart of the slave-holder.

A few years of active life, extensive and most influential labor, many
sheaves and a rich harvest, God's blessing on her service, then
illness barring her from the platform. How serenely she took up the
cross! So specially endowed; men bowing low so readily to the power
and magic of her words; she could not but have seen the grand
possibilities that were opening before her. How peacefully she
accepted the bond, and set herself to training others for the work
against which her own door was shut! East, West, North, and South,
come up to give testimony that these later years bore ample fruit. How
many souls have cause to thank that enforced silence! I have listened
to such testimonies, spoken sometimes in tears, on the shores of the
Great Lakes and beyond the Mississippi."

From the following facts and anecdotes told by her husband, we see
that Angelina united with the highest moral heroism, the physical
courage and coolness in the hour of danger that but few men can boast.
Theodore D. Weld, in his published sketch, says:

Though high physical courage is also fairly inferrable from her
anti-slavery career, yet only those most with her in life's
practical affairs can appreciate her self-poise in danger. Peril
was to her a sedative; it calmed and girded her, bringing out
every resource, and making self-command absolute. She knew
nothing of that flutter which confuses. Great danger instantly
brought thought and feeling to a focus, and held them there.
Several perilous emergencies in her life are vividly
recalled--such as being overturned while in a carriage with a
child in her arms, the horse meanwhile floundering amid the
_debris_, a shaft broken, and dash-board kicked into splinters.
At another time, shots at the road-side set off the horses in a
run. Seeing her husband, in his struggle to rein them in, jerked
up from his seat and held thus braced and half-standing, she
caught him round the waist, adding her weight to his