He has told it in his own unequaled way.

"That home," he says, "was a great help.

Her husband's word and pen scattered his purpose far and wide; but the comrades that his ideas brought to his side her welcome melted into friends.

No matter how various and discordant they were in many things--no matter how much there was to bear and overlook--her patience and her thanks for their sympathy in the great idea were always sufficient for the work also....

In that group of remarkable men and women which the anti-slavery movement drew together, she had her own niche--which no one else could have filled so perfectly or unconsciously as she did....