This matter but
begins. We have invited to attend us a lady whose activities we
considered dangerous,--that is the plain truth of it, and we all
know it, and she may know it. Instead of that, we find here with
us now a woman in distress. Which of us would have the courage to
endure with equal equanimity that which she faces now? It has
already been said here that we have been not unmindful of the plans
of this lady, not wholly unacquainted with her history. We know
that although a revolutionist at heart, an alien on our shores, her
purposes have been clean, have been noble. Would to God we had
more such in our own country! But now, in a plan which has proved
wholly futile before her time, which would prove futile after it,
even though backed by the wealth of a nation,--she has failed, not
to our ruin, but to her own.
"It is not without my knowledge that this lady at one time,
according to popular report, was asked to undertake a journey which
later resulted, in considerable personal inconvenience, not to say
indignity, to herself.
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