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N Thursday, the 14th of May, 1868, I attended the second anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association, held in the large hall of Cooper Institute. I attended the morning session alone, and so had to depend upon myself for the impressions received regarding the different speakers. Addresses were made by the President, Mrs. Stanton; by Miss Anthony, Lucy Stone, Colonel Higginson, Frederick Douglass, Henry Blackwell, Reverend Olympia Brown, Reverend Henry Blanchard, and others. Among the (to me) unknown “others” was an elderly lady, whom I understood Mrs. Stanton to introduce as “Mrs. Roe, of Ohio.”