TOO On the Campus 



don and was excluded, with all other women who sought 

 to attend, she suddenly realized that even white women 

 were not quite as free from disability as might be de- 

 sired; and the insult provoked an effort for her white 

 sisters in the United States which, while not supplant- 

 ing her interest in freedom for the slave, presently be- 

 came dominant to the very latest day of her life. 



On a rainy night, the ninth of April, 1870, your 

 speaker witnessed in New York City the disbanding of 

 the famous Anti-Slavery Society, to which, for nearly 

 forty years, some of the bravest men and women the 

 world has ever seen had devoted life and fortune. On 

 the platform were assembled many of that brilliant 

 band. Many made short addresses there; but bright in 

 my mind looms not the giant Douglas with leonine shock 

 of snowy hair, his voice of thunder; not Wendell Phil- 

 lips, with his silver speech; not splendid Theodore Til- 

 ton, with his nervous enthusiasm ; nor Julia Ward Howe, 

 with her poem of jubilant exultation; but I see before 

 me, as if at this very hour, the petite figure of the tiny 

 Quakeress whose courage had for forty years defied pub- 

 lic sentiment, defied hostile mobs, now at the age of 

 nearly eighty, standing in her place, clad in her Quaker 

 drab, with a white kerchief about her neck, folded 

 across her breast I see the undaunted oratress, and I 

 note her undiminished tone, voicing her great satisfac- 

 tion that one chapter, at least, in the work of her life, 

 one page in her country's history, and in the history 

 of the world, was now complete. The book of record 

 was finished; let it be closed and closed forever, since 

 the possibility of human slavery had gone, and gone 

 forever, out of the experience of human kind. 



