here than would have been possible through any other
instrumentality. I shall never cease to be grateful for all the
splendid women who have come up to this great center for these
twenty-six conventions, and have learned that the North was not
such a cold place as they had believed; I have been equally glad
when we came down here and met the women from the sunny South and
found they were just like ourselves, if not a little better. In
this great association we know no North, no South, no East, no
West. This has been our pride for all these years. We have no
political party. We never have inquired what anybody's religion
is. All we ever have asked is simply, "Do you believe in perfect
equality for women?" This is the one article in our creed.

Senator Joseph M. Carey of Wyoming and Representative Lafayette Pence
of Colorado referred with great pride to the enfranchisement of the
women of their respective States. Mrs. Johns was introduced by Miss
Anthony as "the general of the Kansas army;" Mrs. Greenleaf as the
Democratic nominee for member of the N. Y. Constitutional Convention;
Mrs. Henry as the woman who received 4,500 votes for Clerk of the
Supreme Court of Kentucky. Miss Anthony's spicy introductions of the
various speakers were always greatly relished by the audiences.

No more impressive or beautiful memorial service ever was held than
that in remembrance of Lucy Stone. The principal address was made by
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe (Mass.), in the course of which she said:

In all action taken under her supervision, Mrs. Stone was most
careful that the main issue should be constantly presented and
kept in view. While welcoming every reform which gave evidence of
the ethical progress of the community, she yet held to woman
suffrage, pure and simple, as the first condition upon which the
new womanhood should base itself. Efforts were often made to
entangle suffrage with the promise of endless reforms in various
directions, but firm as Cato, who always repeated his words that
Carthage should be destroyed, Lucy Stone always asked for
suffrage because it is right and just that women should have it,
and not on the ground of a swiftly-coming millennium which should
follow it....

When Lucy Stone first resolved to devote her life to the
rehabilitation of her sex, to what a task did she pledge herself!