Personal reminiscences of a great crusade

“Our fathers to their graves have gone, Their strife is past—their triumph won; But sterner trials wait the race Which rises in their honoured place— A moral warfare with the cr...

Our appeal, we decided, must be made to the Nation. Letters had previously been written by us during the autumn of 1869 to every member of both Houses of Parliament, and to many...

It may surprise some of my readers to learn that the first great uprising against legalised vice had much less of the character of the “revolt of a sex” than has been often supp...

The year 1874 was a period of great depression and discouragement for our cause, while in that same year were recorded, more openly than ever before, the bold and vast designs o...

There was a whole world of misery contained within the walls of the St. Lazare. As I reached the stone portico leading out of the street to the large gates of the prison, a huge...

Before I go further with the recital of the events in connection with our crusade which stand out most prominently in my memory, I must pause to speak briefly of some of the per...

I went with my husband to Switzerland in the month of June of 1876 to see the friends who were then preparing for the Congress of the following year, and to seek among the mount...

“The violation of one law may sometimes be the fulfilment of a higher; and there are laws, which to obey is infamy.”—_Words of Lacordaire when tried for contempt of the law._

“When the necessary revolution in the mind of the people is completed, that in the institutions of the country will follow as the day follows the night.”—W. LLOYD GARRISON, the...

“What though the cast-out spirit tear The Nation in his going, We who have shared the guilt must share The pang of his o’erthrowing; Whate’er the loss, Whate’er the cross, Shall...