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52 sing one more song they would not pester the meeting any more that night. So she began to sing:

Before she had finished this song the mob crowd fled in a mass. In this she showed more tact and courage and real generalship than all the preachers in the camp could muster up. That she was a woman of power of speech there can be no question when one reads the many testimonials of the newspapers and friends of those days, when men possibly spoke the truth more at ease than now. The Rochester papers spoke of her while lecturing in the State of New York as follows:

She is ahvays sensible, always suggestive, always original, earnest and practical, often eloquent and profound. She often asked visitors, "Don't you want to write your name in de Book of Life?" She delighted to have her distinguished friends write their names in this "Book of Life." Among those who wrote their names were Lucretia Mott (who calls herself a "co-laborer in the cause of our race"). Senators Revel,