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were so proscribed and denounced by the scribes and pharisees and hypocrites in the
Church, and by the time-servers and demagogues in the
State, as those to whom he specifically gave in his will the tokens of his respect, confidence, and undying friendship.
It was his last and most striking testimony of his interest in the most radical reformers.
We were singled out for no other purpose. It was his ‘ruling passion strong in death.’
It is a great trust which has been committed to us—the expenditure of eight thousand dollars per annum for five years in the cause of anti-slavery, woman's rights, peace, temperance, etc.
1 No doubt we shall be bored with all sorts of applications, from all sorts of persons; indeed, they already begin to pour in. But the estate is not yet settled.