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Rh Good Women,” appearing without signature in the Golden Age, but which, nevertheless, bears traces of the pleasant airiness of style peculiar to the editor of that paper, occurs this kindly tribute to the worth of Mrs. Rose:

"Ernestine L. Rose, who is now out of the country, is one of the ablest of female minds. Foreign by birth, and revealing her Polish extraction in her accent, she, nevertheless, speaks the English tongue with a rare force and eloquence, and handles her logic as deftly as her needle. Radical in her religious views — called by some an Atheist, and by others an Infidel—she has been considered as a dangerous character— a kind of Thomas Paine among her sisterhood. But as I am a believer in all honest religions, and have a profound reverence for all sincere souls, I have nothing to say against Mrs. Rose's Infidelity, which is itself a religion, nor against her character, which, in spite of her own testimony to the contrary, I know to be thoroughly Christian.”