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| 654 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD. oos and humane. Charity was not to him a duty, bat a delight; and the benevolence, which, in most good men, has some touch of vanity or selfishness, always seemed in him pore, nnoooecions and disinterested. Hia life was long and happy, and useful to his fellow-men. He had been married for fifty-seven years, and none of the many friends of James and Lucretia Mott, need be told how much that union meant, nor -what sorrow comes with its end in this world." Mary Grew pronounced his fitting epitaph when she said: " He was ever calm, steadfast, and strong in the fore front of the conflict" In her seventy-ninth year, the energy of Lucretia Mott is andiminished, and her soul is as ardent in the cause to which her life Las been devoted, as when in her youth she placed the will of a true woman against the impotence of prejudiced millions. With the abolition of Slavery, and the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, her greatest life-work ended. Since then, she has given much of her time to the Female Suffrage movement, and so late as November, 1871, she took an active part in the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Peace Society. Since the great law was enacted, which made all men, black or white, equal iu political rights—as they were always equal in the sight of God— Mrs. Mott has made it her business to visit every colored church in Philadelphia. This we may regard as the formal closing of fifty years of work in behalf of a race which she has seen raised from a position of abject servitude, to one higher than that of a monarch's throne. But though she may have ended this Antirslavery work, which is hut the foundation of the destiny of the colored race in America, her influence is not ended—that cannot die; it must live and grow and deepen, and generations hence the •world will be happier and better that Lucretia Mott lived and labored for the good of all mankind. JAMES MILLER McKIM. More vividly than it is possible for the pen to portray, the subject of tints sketch recalls the struggles of the -worst years of Slavery, -when the conflict was most exciting and interesting, when more minds were aroused, and more laborers were hard at work in the field; when more anti-slavery speeches were made, tracts, papers, and books, were written, printed arid distributee!; •when more petitions were signed for the abolition of Slavery; in a word, •when the barbarism of Slavery was more exposed and condemned than ever before, in the same length of time. Abolitionists were then intensely in earnest, and determined never to hold their peace or cease their warfare, until immtdiaie and unconditional emancipation Was achieved. On the other hand, daring this same period, it is not venturing too mnch to assert that the slave power was more oppressive than ever before; |