At the head of her coffin was placed the mahogany McClintock Spirit Table, recalling the time when the woman’s movement had begun. The table, now the property of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, is identified only as the table on which the original Woman’s Declaration of Rights and Sentiments was written in 1848. There is no reference to

This, to my mind, is an evidence, not of a depraved popular taste, but of a vital interest in the social problems that puzzle and perplex the best of us.

“I will never take another step by your side. The end has indeed come.” Having won Mrs. Tilton’s confidence, Beecher was careful not to release his statement. It was found among Benjamin Tracy’s papers some years later.

the secret history of this tragedy is ever brought to light, we shall have such revelations of diplomacy and hypocrisy in high places as to open the eyes of the people to the impossibility of securing justice for anyone when money can be used against him.

statement an expression of love and valor. Evidently it did not occur to her to question why this statement had been seen by no one except herself.

chapter 22 of Deuteronomy containing the phrase “the token of the damsel’s virginity”—

Widowed at twenty-two, Laura had one daughter, Peggy, to whom she devoted her life. When Peggy was sixteen, she confided to her mother that she was pregnant and that the lover who had promised to marry her had deserted her. “Well-meaning friends” advised an abortion and told Smith, “There is a way. Hide this thing from sight, send her on a journey.