eal, always guided by her faultless feeling of propriety, the earnest pleading of her husband, the brilliant eloquence and personal magnetism of Mary A. Livermore,—all these things combined to give to our platform a novel and sustained attraction.
Noble men, aye, the noblest, stood with us in our endeavor,— some, like Senator Hoar and George S. Hale, to explain and illustrate the logical sequence which should lead to the recognition of our citizenship; others, like Wendell Phillips, George William Curtis, and Henry Ward Beecher, able to overwhelm the crumbling defenses of the old order with the storm and flash of their eloquence.
We acted, one and all, under the powerful stimulus of hope.
The object which we labored to accomplish was so legitimate and rational, so directly in the line of our religious belief, of our political institutions, that it appeared as if we had only to unfold our new banner, bright with the blazon of applied Christianity, and march on to victory.
The bl
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Crawford, F. Marion, the novelist.
45.
Crawford, Thomas, the sculptor, his work in the Ward mansion, 45; meets the Howes in Rome: marries Louisa Ward, 127; travels to Rome with Mrs. Howe, 100; his statue of Washington, 203.
Crawford, Mrs., Thomas. See Ward, Louisa.
Cretan insurrection of 1866, Dr. Howe's efforts in behalf of, 312, 313; distribution of clothes to the refugees of, 317-319; bazaar in aid of the sufferers, 320.
Critique of Pure Reason, Kant's, 212.
Curtis, George William, his opinion of Words for the Hour, 230; writes about Newport, 238; presides at the Unitarian anniversary in 1886, 302; advocates woman suffrage, 378.
Cushing, Caleb, 180.
Cushman, Miss, Charlotte, 240.
Cutler, Benjamin Clarke, Mrs. Howe's grandfather, 4.
Cutler, Rev. Benjamin Clarke (son of the preceding), officiates at his sister's wedding, 34.
Cutler, Mrs. Benjamin Clarke; Mrs. Howe's grandmother, her costume at her daughter Louisa's wedding, 34; her beauty and charm,