Government free from all caste and privilege, whether of color,
creed or sex--its founders will be discovered not in those who
purchased by their valor and blood mere independence of territory
in which a government allied with slavery was founded, but among
those who, while faithful to heart and home, toiled unweariedly
for an ideal civilization.

A few touching words were spoken by the Rev. Antoinette Brown
Blackwell, a contemporary in the early days of the movement for woman
suffrage. At Woodlawn Cemetery the committal to earth was pronounced
by the Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford, another companion in the long contest.

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MISS ANTHONY'S LAST BIRTHDAY LETTER TO MRS. STANTON, WRITTEN A FEW
DAYS BEFORE HER SUDDEN DEATH.

My Dear Mrs. Stanton:--

I shall indeed be happy to spend with you November 12, the day on
which you round out your four-score and seven, over four years
ahead of me, but in age as in all else I follow you closely. It
is fifty-one years since first we met and we have been busy
through every one of them, stirring up the world to recognize the
rights of women. The older we grow the more keenly we feel the
humiliation of disfranchisement and the more vividly we realize
its disadvantages in every department of life and most of all in
the labor market.

We little dreamed when we began this contest, optimistic with the
hope and buoyancy of youth, that half a century later we would be
compelled to leave the finish of the battle to another generation
of women. But our hearts are filled with joy to know that they
enter upon this task equipped with a college education, with
business experience, with the fully admitted right to speak in
public--all of which were denied to women fifty years ago. They
have practically but one point to gain--the suffrage; we had all.
These strong, courageous, capable young women will take our place
and complete our work. There is an army of them where we were
but a handful. Ancient prejudice has become so softened, public
sentiment so liberalized and women have so thoroughly
demonstrated their ability as to leave not a shadow of doubt that
they will carry our cause to victory.

And we, dear, old friend, shall move on to the next sphere of
existence--higher and larger, we cannot fail to b