5/32 STANTON AND DAUGHTER, 1857.] Fairly at sea, I closed another chapter of my life, and my thoughts turned to what lay in the near future. James G.Birney, the anti-slavery nominee for the presidency of the United States, joined us in New York, and was a fellow-passenger on the Montreal for England. He and my husband were delegates to the World's Anti-slavery Convention, and both interested themselves in my anti-slavery education. They gave me books to read, and, as we paced the deck day by day, the question was the chief theme of our conversation. |