The death of my father, the worse than death of my dear cousin Gerrit,[28] the martyrdom of that great and glorious John Brown, all conspire to make me regret more than ever my dwarfed and perverted womanhood.

In times like these every soul should do the work of a fullgrown man.

When I pass the gate of the celestials and good Peter asks me where I wish to sit, I will say: 'Anywhere so that I am neither a negro nor a woman.

Confer on me, great angel, the glory of white manhood, so that henceforth I may feel unlimited freedom.'" In this year of 1859, Charles F.Hovey, a wealthy merchant of Boston, a radical in religion and a noted reformer and philanthropist, left $50,000 to be expended in securing equal rights for women, the abolition of slavery, and other reforms, at the discretion of Wendell Phillips, Wm.

Lloyd Garrison and the other executors.