Which of us would have the courage to endure with equal equanimity that which she faces now?
It has already been said here that we have been not unmindful of the plans of this lady, not wholly unacquainted with her history.

We know that although a revolutionist at heart, an alien on our shores, her purposes have been clean, have been noble.

Would to God we had more such in our own country! But now, in a plan which has proved wholly futile before her time, which would prove futile after it, even though backed by the wealth of a nation,--she has failed, not to our ruin, but to her own.
"It is not without my knowledge that this lady at one time, according to popular report, was asked to undertake a journey which later resulted, in considerable personal inconvenience, not to say indignity, to herself.

Is there no way, gentlemen, in which, especially in consideration of her present material circumstances, this government--I mean to say this country--can make some amends for that ?" "Madam," began the leader at the head of the table, "I did not predict wrongly regarding our friend from Kentucky; but in reply to him, I myself must say, as I have already said, we are but a simple republic,--all our acts must be open and known.

What special fund, my dear sir,"-- this to the speaker, who still retained his position,--"in what manner, indeed, could this be arranged ?" "In the easiest way in the world," rejoined the Kentuckian.