Mr. Child's paper, the _Public Ledger_, and of his many
benefactions. Frederick Douglass gave the offering of his eloquence
and ended as follows:

It is not alone because of the goodness of any cause that men can
safely predicate success. Much depends on the character and
quality of the men and women who are its advocates. The Redeemer
must ever come from above. Only the best of mankind can afford to
support unpopular opinions. The common sort will drift with the
tide. No good cause can fail when supported by such women as were
Lucretia Mott, Abby Kelly, Angelina Grimke, Lydia Maria Child,
Maria W. Chapman, Thankful Southwick, Sally Holly, Ernestine L.
Rose, E. Oakes Smith, Elizabeth Peabody and the noble and gifted
Lucy Stone. Not only have we a glorious constellation of women on
the silent continent to assure us that our cause is good and that
it must finally prevail, but we have such men as William Lloyd
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, William Henry Channing, Francis
Jackson, Gerrit Smith, Samuel J. May, Samuel E. Sewall--now no
longer with us in body, but in spirit and memory to cheer us on
in the good work of lifting women in the fullest sense to the
dignity of American liberty and American citizenship.

Miss Anthony closed the services with heartfelt testimonials to Mrs.
Myra Bradwell, one of the first woman lawyers and founder and editor
of _The Legal News_; Miss Mary F. Seymour, founder of _The Business
Woman's Journal_; and Col. John Thompson, a founder of the Patrons of
Husbandry, the first national organization of men to indorse woman
suffrage.

At one of the evening sessions Miss Anthony presented Dr. John
Trimble, secretary of the National Grange, and Leonard Rhone,
chairman of its executive committee. The latter said in course of a
few brief remarks: "When the farmers of this country organized they
took with them their wives and daughters, and for twenty-seven years
we have tried woman suffrage in the Grange and it has worked well.
What we have demonstrated by experience in our organization we are
ready to indorse, and by almost a unanimous vote at our last national
convention we passed a resolution in favor of woman suffrage."

Mrs. Orra Langhorne read a clever paper on House Cleaning in Old
Virginia, describing present social and political conditions and
showing the need of woman's participation. Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson