18.
Adams to Seward, Dec.

18, 1862, enclosing a pamphlet issued by the Association.] [Footnote 1143: Its appeal for funds was addressed in part to women.
"Fairest and best of earth! for the sake of violated innocence, insulted virtue, and the honour of your sex, come in woman's majesty and omnipotence and give strength to a cause that has for its object the highest human aims--the amelioration and exaltation of humanity."] [Footnote 1144: _The Index_, Jan.

14, 1864, p.23.The committee of organization was as follows:-- The Most Noble the Marquis of Lothian, The Most Noble the Marquis of Bath, The Lord Robert Cecil, M.P., The Lord Eustace Cecil, The Right Honourable Lord Wharncliffe.
The Right Honourable Lord Campbell, The Hon.

C.Fitzwilliam, M.P., The Honourable Robt.

Bourke, Edward Akroyd, Esq., Halifax, Colonel Greville, M.P., W.H.Gregory, Esq., M.P., T.C.Haliburton, Esq., M.P., A.J.B.Beresford Hope, Esq., W.S.Lindsay, Esq., M.P., G.M.W.Peacocke, Esq., M.P., Wm.