[383] was Stanton.1 Remond stepped forward of his own accord, and was repeatedly cheered by the audience. He took them by surprise and acquitted himself very creditably. Prejudice against color is unknown here. Rogers and I have boarded at the same house with Stanton and his wife, Colver, Grosvenor, James and Lucretia Mott, Isaac Winslow and daughter, Abby Southwick, (who are all well), and several other delegates.2 Mrs. Stanton is a fearless3 woman, and goes for woman's rights with all her soul. Stanton voted right in Convention on the question. We have been to see Westminster Abbey, the Museum, the Tunnel, the Tower,4 St. Paul's, etc., etc. The talk now is, that we shall leave for Scotland in the course of a week, under the care and guidance of George Thompson. I feel considerable curiosity to see Glasgow and Edinburgh, and the Scottish highlands; yet can I truly say, ‘There's no place like home.’ Some of the Irish delegates insist upon it that I shall take a trip to Ireland. Perhaps we may conclude to visit Dublin. I have shaken hands with O'Connell repeatedly.5 A thousand thanks for your affectionate letter, received by the British Queen. Every line it contained was full of interest,
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1 The occasion was the anniversary of the British and Foreign A. S. Society. Mr. Phillips wrote to Oliver Johnson (Lib. 10.119): ‘You will hardly believe me when I say, that abolitionists could meet in Exeter Hall to hear of American slavery, and place on their list of speakers the names of Stanton and Birney, and forget that man, sitting silent beside them, to whom it was owing that Birney and Stanton, as abolitionists, had a being— indeed, that there was anything like American abolition at all. Garrison was not asked to speak in Exeter Hall. One who sat by me was reproved for calling for him. Do you want any other index of its abolitionism? I was almost startled to hear Stanton announced there as Secretary of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. We had been battling for a fortnight with the domineering, exclusive, narrow spirit of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and, in spite of myself, my mind could not but associate them together. Further thought only strengthens the resemblance.’
2 At Mark Moore's, No. 6 Queen St. Place, Southwark Bridge, Cheapside ( “Life of J. And L. Mott,” p. 149).
4 ‘ “Let us write Peace on earth and good will to men on the ‘outer wall’!” cried Garrison, as we gazed on the gloomy old receptacle, as we left it’ (N. P. Rogers, Lib. 10.143).
5 In this year O'Connell began his famous agitation for ‘Repeal.’ Mr. Garrison related that he, together with friends, one day called upon him, and as it was known that he was about to make an important speech in Parliament, they feared to find him busy. He was, on the contrary, taking a rest before going to the House of Commons, and, stretched upon a sofa, was enjoying one of Dickens's novels.
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