ced him to have a
higher regard and deeper respect for all their sex.... Mr.
Blackwell and Mr. Garrison, in their beautiful family lives, are
particularly illustrious examples that woman suffrage will not
break up the home. Many long years did these pairs of married
friends work together for our cause....

To-day we sorrow for the loss of these men but not without hope,
for there are other men coming forward to take up the work they
have dropped. We women who are here to-day do not represent
merely ourselves and the tens of thousands of other suffrage
women but we are backed by the sympathy, the active encouragement
and the money of our husbands, our brothers, our fathers, and
many of us have chivalrous sons. More even than sympathy they now
give, as some are giving themselves for service. One of Mr.
Blackwell's last letters to me related to securing a large
membership among men, and our Men's Suffrage Leagues, now
springing up in all large cities, might well name themselves for
him.... Go forward, men, with the spirit of Blackwell and
Garrison!

Mrs. McCulloch paid a beautiful tribute to the human side of Mr.
Blackwell's character, his love of nature and his companionship with
children.

Miss Jane Campbell: I need not enter into the details of the
life, public or private, of Mr. Blackwell. They are written in
letters of gold in the annals of the suffrage movement from the
moment when in the beautiful, unselfish ardor of youth, with his
wife, the silver-tongued Lucy Stone, he entered upon a career of
patient, unflagging devotion to the cause of woman's rights....
It evinced a high and noble spirit, a great courage, for any man
to espouse an almost universally ridiculed cause, as did Mr.
Blackwell; possibly greater courage than even a woman,
conservative and timid if not by nature yet made so by education,
showed when she emerged from her awed subjection and ventured to
demand her equal share of privileges as well as of disabilities.
The woman had the burning sense of injustice to arouse her, the
indignation caused by her calm relegation to the position of an
inferior to inspire her with courage to fight for freedom, but a
man, a man like Mr. Blackwell, had no such bitter sense of
personal wrong to impel him. He entered the contest not for