and Mary
Johnson, and a series of resolutions passed.[69] Oliver Johnson took
an active part in the discussions, and at the close of the Convention,
moved a resolution of thanks to the friends who had come from a
distance, and contributed so much to the success of the meeting. The
Convention then adjourned _sine die_.

In 1849, Richard H. Dana, of Boston, well known as a man of rare
literary culture, delivered a lecture on womanhood throughout the
country. He ridiculed the new demand of American women for civil and
political rights, and for a larger sphere of action, and eulogized
Shakespeare's women, especially Desdemona, Ophelia, and Juliet, and
recommended them to his dissatisfied countrywomen as models of
innocence, tenderness, and confiding love in man, for their study and
imitation.

He gave this lecture in Philadelphia, and Lucretia Mott was in the
audience. At the close she asked an introduction, and told him that
while she had been much interested in his lecture, and profited by the
information it contained, she could not respond to his idea of
woman's true character and destiny. "I am very sorry," he replied
quickly, at the first word of criticism, and rushed out of the house,
leaving Mrs. Mott, who had hoped to modify his views, somewhat
transfixed with surprise. In describing the scene to some friends
afterward, she remarked that she had never been treated with more
rudeness by one supposed to understand the rules of etiquette that
should always govern the behavior of a gentleman.

Soon after this, she delivered the following discourse in the Assembly
buildings in Philadelphia. After giving the Bible view of woman's
position as an equal,

LUCRETIA MOTT said: I have not come here with a view of answering
any particular parts of the lecture alluded to, in order to point
out the fallacy of its reasoning. The speaker, however, did not
profess to offer anything like argument on that occasion, but
rather a sentiment. I have no prepared address to deliver to you,
being unaccustomed to speak in that way; but I felt a wish to
offer some views for your consideration, though in a desultory
manner, which may lead to such reflection and discussion as will
present the subject in a true light.

Why should not woman seek to be a reformer? If she is to shrink
from being such an iconoclast as shall "break the image of man's
lower worship," as so long held up