who by sanctioning her consort, His Royal Highness Prince
Albert, in taking the chair on an occasion not dissimilar to
this, showed her sense of propriety by putting her Head foremost
in an assembly of gentlemen. I have no objection to woman's being
the neck to turn the head aright, but do not wish to see her
assume the place of the head.

George Bradburn, of Mass.: We are told that it would be outraging
the customs of England to allow women to sit in this Convention.
I have a great respect for the customs of old England. But I ask,
gentlemen, if it be right to set up the customs and habits, not
to say prejudices of Englishmen, as a standard for the government
on this occasion of Americans, and of persons belonging to
several other independent nations. I can see neither reason nor
policy in so doing. Besides, I deprecate the principle of the
objection. In America it would exclude from our conventions all
persons of color, for there customs, habits, tastes, prejudices,
would be outraged by _their_ admission. And I do not wish to be
deprived of the aid of those who have done so much for this
cause, for the purpose of gratifying any mere custom or
prejudice. Women have furnished most essential aid in
accomplishing what has been done in the State of Massachusetts.
If, in the Legislature of that State, I have been able to do
anything in furtherance of that cause, by keeping on my legs
eight or ten hours day after day, it was mainly owing to the
valuable assistance I derived from the women. And shall such
women be denied seats in this Convention? My friend George
Thompson, yonder, can testify to the faithful services rendered
to this cause by those same women. He can tell you that when
"gentlemen of property and standing" in "broad day" and
"broadcloth," undertook to drive him from Boston, putting his
life in peril, it was our women who made their own persons a
bulwark of protection around him. And shall such women be refused
seats here in a Convention seeking the emancipation of slaves
throughout the world? What a misnomer to call this a World's
Convention of Abolitionists, when some of the oldest and most
thorough-going Abolitionists in the world are denied the right to
be represented in it by delegates of their own choice.

And thus for the sp