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 sion to America, and was chosen by the ladies of Indianapolis to present him a purse con- taining one hundred and fifty dollars, which they had contributed. At the close of an address by Kossuth, to a large audience, on the characteristics of the people of Ilun- gary, a committee of ladies, among whom was the wife of Joseph Wright, then Gov- ernor of Indiana, was presented, and Mrs. Bolton, with subdued earnestness of feel- ing, but in clear tones, and with fitting elocution, presented the purse, in a few words which exactly represented the spirit of the last stanza of her poem to the Magyar :

In his response, Kossuth said :

You say that you have prayed for the success of freedom in my native land — I know, for your- self, you have done more than this. You have contributed to that cause your genius — a genius which it is the pleasure of your State to honor and appreciate, I know that there is a chord in the tender heart of woman that ever responds to justice, and that her impulses are against oppression in every land. I entreat you to go on and bestow your sympathy even as the mother bestows her love on her child. Human liberty is well worthy of a mother's fostering care. Mr. Bolton was appointed consul to Geneva, Switzerland, by President Pierce, in the spring of 1855. Mrs. Bolton and her daughter, Sallie Ada, accompanied him to Eui'ope. They spent the summer of 1856 in Italy, and the autumn of the same year in Germany. In the spring of 1857 Mrs. Bolton and daughter returned to Indiana. They had been home but a few weeks, when a letter was received from Mr. Bolton, which stated that he had been ill, but was convalescent. Mrs. Bolton had serious fore- bodings, and before sunrise, on the morning after the letter had been read, was on her way back to Switzerland alone. She found her husband attending to liis accustomed duties, when she reached Geneva, but his health was not fully i-estored. In the spring of 1858 he returned with Mrs. Bolton to Indianapolisj His family and friends enter- tained strong hope that, in the climate to which he had neai'ly all his life been accus- tomed, he would regain his health. The hope was vain. He died, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, on the twenty-sixth of November, 1858. Mr. Bolton was a man of important influence in Indiana. He started the first paper published at Lidianapolis ; was an officer of the Legislature, several terms — had been Register of the Land-office, and for many years State Librarian.

Mrs. Bolton, with a son and daughter, resides still at Indianapolis. She possesses property Avhich affords her family competent support.

Wliile in Europe, Mrs. Bolton wrote graphic letters for the Cincinnati Commercial, and contributed numerous poems to its columns and to those of the New York Home Journal, which were suggested by observations or experiences in Switzerland. She