the part of relatives and friends, of gathering around the bodies of the departed, and speaking to each other freely and tenderly of their worth and of the lesson which their life has taught.

The custom of burying the dead in costly caskets, and of wearing mourning apparel which must be manufactured often at great expense in the first hours of bereavement, thereby laying a great burden upon those who are often unable to bear it, ought, we venture to think, to be discontinued.

We know how hard it is to change customs long estab lished and sanctified by the tenderest associations known to the human heart. But it is our sincere belief that the welfare of society would be promoted by the changes herein respectfully suggested.

VI. TREATMENT OF MEN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT. The distress which continues to exist amongst our laboring classes remains to us a source of deep anxiety; And the more so that we are able to discover no definite or immediate remedy.

it.

Men who are willing to work for bread certainly deserve

And we earnestly protest against the enactment of such unjust and inhuman laws, as authorize the almost indiscriminate arrest and imprisonment of travelers in search of employ

ment.

The idle vagabond who will not work, the professional tramp who deliberately resolves to live by the sweat of other men's brows may justly be regarded as vagrants and dangerous to society; but to arrest every man who asks for bread as a criminal and imprison him without trial and without evidence of guilt is a ursurpation on the part of government and an outrage against humanity.

There are other things which crowd upon us in this connection such as the very unequal distribution of the products of human industry in our own country as in others increasingly apparent.

The accumulation of vast amuunts of wealth in the hands

of a few,—and the transmission of these by inheritance to the generations of their posterity, thus augmenting and intensifying the evil already existing, the oppression of the laborer not seldom through labor-saving inventions, the effect of which should be directly the opposite. These are themes which we can only touch here, but which deserve the most earnest consideration.

Let every one seek, if he be owner and capitalist in any capacity to open new and enlarged industries for the hands that are willing to work; and let each of every class put himself in ide in the place of another and of others. And the great, the broad question of labor, of wages, will then have begun to find its solution.

VII. TOBACCO.

We feel called upon to renew our testimony against the indecent, unhealthy, wasteful and immoral practice of narcotizing the human body with tobacco.

Although its use may be classed with many other pernicious indulgences all of which should be strenuously avoided; still the magnitude of its consumption, and its manifest tendency to lead in the direction of kindred vices, urge upon us the necessity of expressing our most earnest condemnation of the use of this poisonous narcotic in every form.

We believe that the women and especially the young women have a potential opportunity to destroy this fashionable vice, by rebuking its practice in unmistakable terms whereever found, as a flagrant breach of good manners, and an insult to purity and virtue. We also suggest that farmers who culiivate the plant, and merchants who deal in it, are clearly implicated in the results of its use.

VIII. WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

We renew our testimony against the injustice which deprives woman of a voice in the government.

Men claim the right to vote on the ground that they pay taxes: women pay taxes, and men pass laws to prevent women voting.

Men claim the right to decide what laws shall be made, because they are required to obey them; women are compelled to obey the laws, and men prevent them from helping to make them.

Men claim the right to vote because they are citizens; women are citizens, but when as citizens they attempt to exercise the right to vote men fine them.

Men claim the right to participate in governmental affairs, because they are human beings; women are human beings, and yet, by law an. force, are denied the exercise of that right. This is monopoly; this is class legislation; this is antirepublican.

We demand for her the right of suffrage, and rejoice in the numerous indications we see on every hand, that a public opinion is slowly but surely being formed which will insure the success of this reform.

MEMORIALS,

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

Under a heartfelt sense of the great loss we have sustained in the death of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, we desire to pay our tribute of respect and love to his character and memory. Of his invaluable services to his country and the world as the leader of the great moral movement against American slavery, whereby its destruction was assured, it is not necessary that we should speak, since an emancipated and disenthralled Nation rises up to do him honor. We would speak of him rather as the warm friend of the unsectarian religious movement in which we are engaged, and express our gratitude for the help he has given us in our efforts to bring mankind out of their bondage to creeds and forms into the light and freedom of religion, pure and undefiled, and leading them to attest their love of God, not by unreasonable dogmas and superstitious observances, but by lives devoted to each other's welfare. We remember with satisfaction that the call under which our first

yearly Meeting was convened, and which struck the key-note of our movement, was written by him out of his deepest and most heartfelt religious convictions. We remember, too, what words of inspiration, wisdom and courage he has uttered from this platform, and how ma ny of those testimonies of truth and righteousness which it has been our privilege from year to year to put forth were from his powerful pen. And not the less do we remember what he was as a guest in our homes, and what a joy we found in listening to his instructive conversation, in which the sweet charity of the saint was blended with the fire and courage of an apostle. We are unspeakably glad and grateful that a life so grand and pure as his has cast its light and its inspiration upon our pathway--a light and an inspiration that cannot die, but will grow brighter and brighter with the lapse of time.

GEORGE THOMPSON.

It would be an unpardonable remissness on our part if we should fail to pay our tribute of respect and honor to the character and memory of GEORGE THOMPSON, the eminent champion of British Emancipatton, who passed away only a short time before the beloved and lamented Garrison. The services rendered by him in securing the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies were of inestimable value, and won for him the gratitude and admiration of his fellow-countrymen. By invitation of Mr. Garrison, he came to this country in 1834, to give himself, with all his great powers as a public speaker, to the work of emancipation here. His appearance excited the slaveholders and their abettors to such a frenzy of madness that they filled the land with excitement, and he was compelled by mob violence to return secretly to his native land. But he never forgot America, and in 1850 came here again and labored for some time in the cause, being received in many places with great honor. When the rebellion broke out he labored with might and main to create in England a public sentiment which would prevent the British Government from espousing the rebel cause. His labors and those of John Bright and other

champions of freedom to this end were successful; and when the danger there was past, he came once more to this country, to be received with such tokens of honor as atoned in part for his former disgraceful expulsion. During his last residence here he came to one of our yearly meetings, and, though in feeble health, spoke with eloquence and power from this platform. He was heartily interested i our Society, believing thoroughly in its fund mental principle and approving of its free platform. David and Jonathan were not more closely allied in spirit than George Thompson and William Lloyd Garrison, and we love to think that they have renewed their fellowship, never again to be interrupted, in a higher and happier sphere, where their great powers will find full scope in labors for the advancement of their kind.

BAYARD TAYLOR.

Among the distinguished men of our country whose mortal career has been closed since our last meeting must be reckoned that eminent son of Pennsylvania and of Chester county, the late Bayard Taylor, Minister of the United States to the Empire of Germany, and beloved for his moral and social qualities, not only here in the place of his birth, but throughout the country and in foreign lands. From the first he showed a friendly interest in this Society--an interest which steadily increased from year to year until the close of his busy and useful life. His absence during much of the time deprived him of the opportunity of co-operating with us, but whenever he was here at the time of the yearly meeting he never failed to show an interest in its proceedings. On some of the subjects discussed here his views, it is well known, differed from those of the majority; but he heartily agreed with us in repudiating the superstitious dogmas and forms which have done so much to pervert the religious sentiment throughout the world, and took pleasure in e growth of more enlightened views. His last work, publ aed after his departure for Germany, is an illustration of his broad and Catholic sentiments in regard to the various religions of the world as having. one common root and purpose. We are deeply sensible of the