with ready and
resolute will; they have not been able to answer all the calls
made upon their time and talent. One of them (I can speak but for
one) between the 11th of November and the 31st of January, has
given sixty-eight lectures, not missing one appointment, resting
only through the holidays and on Sundays. The others have
doubtless done as well. In most instances all have been able to
pay their own expenses, and in some cases their own salaries.

These ladies are not disappointed old maids, desolate widows, or
unhappy wives, though there is one widow and one who has passed
what is called the sunny side of twenty-five. Miss Susan B.
Anthony, the general agent, resides at Rochester, and is
unmarried. Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose, of New York City, is too
widely known to need comment. The same may be said of Antoinette
Brown Blackwell, the eloquent minister, accomplished scholar,
and amiable wife and mother. Mrs. J. Elizabeth Jones, of Ohio, is
a lady in the ripeness of womanhood, to whom, equally with the
above, all these adjectives apply. Mrs. Hannah Tracy Cutler, of
Illinois, has been twice married, and has superintended two
families of children satisfactorily; she has been teacher in a
high school in Columbus, Ohio, and matron of a deaf and dumb
asylum, has taken premiums on sorghum sugar made by her own
hands, and is also a physician among the poor of her
neighborhood. Mrs. Lucy N. Colman, of New York, is a widow, and
has fought life's battle bravely and well for herself and
children. Mrs. Frances D. Gage, of Missouri, formerly of Ohio,
might claim the nomination for President under the authority of
Henry Ward Beecher, "having brought up six unruly boys," whose
aggregate height would form a column of thirty-six feet in honor
of their mother, who will all vote the Republican ticket in 1860
but one, and he is not old enough; and no one of them smokes or
chews, or stimulates the inner man with intoxicating beverages.
She is also the mother of two daughters.

Two years ago Mr. Greeley said to one of the ladies, "Why don't
you ladies go to work?" They have gone to work; and with the help
of such men as Garrison, Phillips, Parker, Giddings, Curtis,
Beecher, Chapin, Brady, and a host of others whom the world
delights to honor, their cause w