Think of my developing as a president of a social science society in my old age!" Miss Mitchell took no prominent part in the woman suffrage movement, but she believed in it firmly, and its leaders were some of her most highly valued friends.
"Sept.

7, 1875.

Went to a picnic for woman suffrage at a beautiful grove at Medfield, Mass.

It was a gathering of about seventy-five persons (mostly from Needham), whose president seemed to be vigorous and good-spirited.
"The main purpose of the meeting was to try to affect public sentiment to such an extent as to lead to the defeat of a man who, when the subject of woman suffrage was before the Legislature, said that the women had all they wanted now--that they could get anything with 'their eyes as bright as the buttons on an angel's coat.' Lucy Stone, Mr.
Blackwell, Rev.Mr.Bush, Miss Eastman, and William Lloyd Garrison spoke.
"Garrison did not look a day older than when I first saw him, forty years ago; he spoke well--they said with less fire than he used in his younger days.

Garrison said what every one says--that the struggle for women was the old anti-slavery struggle over again; that as he looked around at the audience beneath the trees, it seemed to be the same scene that he had known before.
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