s description of the convention, said:

After a speech by Mr. Garrison, the Hutchinsons sang some of the
religious songs of the Southern negroes with excellent taste, and
then, led by them, the whole audience united in the chorus; and
as the melody rose strong and clear a pathos fell upon the
assembly that brought tears to many eyes. The tableau upon the
stage was striking and memorable. There stood the family of
singers, with the same cheerful, hopeful courage in their
uplifted faces with which for twenty years they have sung of the
good time _almost_ here, of every reform; there stood William
Lloyd Garrison, stern Puritan, inflexible apostle, his work
gloriously done in one reform, lending the weight of his
unwearied, solid intellect to that which he believes is the last
needed; there was Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis, a Roman matron in
figure, her noble head covered with clustering ringlets of white,
courageous after a quarter of a century of unsullied devotion,
though she had just confessed that sometimes she was almost
weary; there was Miss Anthony, unselfish, patient, wise and
practical; the graceful Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the poet of the
movement; the tall and elegant Mrs. Celia Burleigh; the
benevolent Dr. Clemence Lozier; Mrs. Isabella B. Hooker, with
spiritual face and firm purpose, just taking her place in the
reform that has long had her heart and deep conviction, and many
others of fine presence and commanding beauty--matrons, with gray
hair and countenances illuminated with lives of charity; young
women, flushed with hope; and as the grand Christian song went
on, many a woman, leaning against a supporting pillar, gave way
to the tears that would come, tears of hope deferred, tears of
weary longings, tears of willing, patient devotion--e'en though
it be a cross that raiseth me--and then the benediction, and the
assembly dispersed, touched, it may be, into a moment's sympathy.
* * *

At the closing evening session the opera house was completely
filled by an audience whose attendance was a compliment. * * *
The chairman, Rev. N. J. Burton, said: "Has not this convention
been a success? I say, emphatically, it has. We have had the very
best of audiences at every session, and we have provided speakers
as good as the audience. We hav