Story of the Hutchinsons (tribe of Jesse) . wreath of glory shedA brighter lustre oer the head,Than he who battles selfish pride,And votes with woman, side by side. Oh ! well do nothing wrong But jing you this song; The good time for woman Is coming right along. Well sing you this song, The chorus well prolong. The good time, good time, Vote it right along. The daj of emancipation had come. The war wasover, and the necessity for singing the songs of freedom,except as a reminiscence, had passed. But ours was amoral mission, nevertheless, and we still felt there weremany reforms demanding our at
Story of the Hutchinsons (tribe of Jesse) . wreath of glory shedA brighter lustre oer the head,Than he who battles selfish pride,And votes with woman, side by side. Oh ! well do nothing wrong But jing you this song; The good time for woman Is coming right along. Well sing you this song, The chorus well prolong. The good time, good time, Vote it right along. The daj of emancipation had come. The war wasover, and the necessity for singing the songs of freedom,except as a reminiscence, had passed. But ours was amoral mission, nevertheless, and we still felt there weremany reforms demanding our attention and of these was temperance. Another, peace. Stillanother, the legitimate offspring of abolition, wasuniversal suffrage. The ballot was in the hand of thenegro, as a citizen of the Union. We believed it shouldbe in the hand of woman, not only as her absolute right,but as a temperance and reform measure. Tlie yeai-sfollowing the war, therefore, found us allied with thetemperance workers as ever, and also singing for uni-. MORAL EEFOEM WOHK. 431 versal suffrage as Ave had formerly sung for universalfreedom and brotherhood. We commenced 1866 with my son Henry still inMinnesota, and the concert company consisting of mywife and Viola, Milton Clark, bass singer, and myself. In January we went to Washington. We gaveseveral concerts here, in Rev. Mr. Garretts church andelsewhere. The colored people gave us great boarded at the same house Avith Schuyler Colfax,soon to be Vice-President, and ate Avith him at took a great liking to Viola, and Avas very kind inhis attentions to her. I had many pleasant conversa-tions with him in regard to the condition of the found him a true American, and loved and honoredhim. On February 11th Ave attended the closing exercisesof the United States Christian Commission, at theCapitol. Rev. Prof. Lemuel Moss, in his Annals ofthe Christian Commission, has given a detailed storyof the exercises, Avhich Avere
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