he
apartment, sat the great man himself. It really seemed audacious
in me to be ushered into such a presence, and on such a
commonplace errand, to ask him to come to Rochester to speak in a
course of lectures I am planning. But he received me with such
kindness and simplicity, that the awe I felt on entering was soon
dissipated. I then called on Wendell Phillips, in his sanctum,
for the same purpose. I have invited Ralph Waldo Emerson by
letter, and all three have promised to come. In the evening, with
Mr. Jackson's son James, the most diffident and sensitive man I
ever saw, Miss B---- and I went to the theater to see Dussendoff,
the great tragedian, play Hamlet. The theater is new, the scenery
beautiful, and, in spite of my Quaker training, I find I enjoy
all these worldly amusements intensely.

Returning to Worcester, I attended the Anti-Slavery Bazaar. I
suppose there were many beautiful things exhibited, but I was so
absorbed in the conversation of Mr. Higginson, Samuel May, Jr.,
Sarah Earle, Cousin Dr. Seth Rogers, Stephen and Abby Foster,
that I really forgot to take a survey of the tables. The next day
Charles F. Hovey drove me out to the home of the Fosters, where
we had a pleasant call.

Francis Jackson and Charles F. Hovey, though neither speakers nor
writers, yet they furnished the "sinews of war." None contributed more
generously than they to all the reforms of their times. They were the
first men to make a bequest to our movement. To them we are indebted
for the money that enabled us to carry on the agitation for years.
Beside giving liberally from time to time, Francis Jackson left $5,000
in the hands of Wendell Phillips, which he managed and invested so
wisely, that the fund was nearly doubled. Charles F. Hovey left
$50,000 to be used in anti-slavery, woman suffrage, and free religion.
With the exception of $1,000 from Lydia Maria Child, we have yet to
hear of a woman of wealth who has left anything for the
enfranchisement of her sex. Almost every daily paper heralds the fact
of some large bequest to colleges, churches, and charities by rich
women, but it is proverbial that they never remember the Woman
Suffrage movement that underlies in importance all others.

HEARING BEFORE THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE,
MARCH, 1857.

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