eir ranks if it passed, and felt too timid to give it
their support. The lady offering it, seeing it would be defeated,
withdrew it, at the same time giving notice that she should
present the same, or one similar, to that body every year as long
as she lived, or until it passed. Last month the same
organization held its annual meeting in Portsmouth, and that
lady, as good as her word, was there with her resolution on
temperance suffrage, and it passed unanimously, about 100
delegates being present and voting, many of whom acknowledged the
timidity they felt last year, but now earnestly gave it their
support. Such experiences give us some idea of the different
instrumentalities by which our cause is forced upon conservative
minds for consideration, ending in honest conviction.

In closing, I know you will all unite with me in tributes to Mr.
Garrison. Now that he has gone to join that innumerable host of
philanthropists in the higher life, let us rejoice that he was
one of the leaders of that reform which brings us here to-day.
And now, friends, in view of the present status of our cause,
have we not much to encourage us in our work? May we go forward
in that spirit of good-will that shall bring us a speedy victory.

Resolutions of respect to the memory of Mrs. Abby P. Ela, William
Lloyd Garrison and Angelina Grimke Weld were adopted by a rising
vote.

In the _National Citizen_ of December 14, 1879, we find the
following:

Marilla M. Ricker of New Hampshire had an executive hearing
before the governor and council of that State, November 18, in
regard to the management of the State prison. Mrs. Ricker, who in
winter practices law in Washington, and is known as "the
prisoner's friend," referred to the cruel treatment of convicts
in various States, notably in New Hampshire, where prisoners are
not permitted to read the magazines or the weekly newspapers
which contain no record of crime, nor to receive words from their
friends, as in other States they are allowed at stated times to
do. When Mrs. Ricker desired to see a certain prisoner and let
him know he had friends who were yet mindful of his comfort, the
warden replied that he did not wish that man "to think he had a
friend in the world." Mrs. Ricker warmly protested against such
brutality. The attorney-g