otion was withdrawn.
The gall and bitterness, the ridicule and vulgarity of the Rev. D.D.'s
being expended on some of the grandest women our nation could boast,
they adjourned, after deciding to hold a four days' convention,
beginning the 6th of September. The other wing of the temperance army
decided to do the same, and held a meeting of protest a few days after
in the Tabernacle.
The _New York Tribune_ says of the meeting of protest, Saturday
evening, May 14, 1852: A grand Temperance demonstration was held
in the Broadway Tabernacle Saturday evening. There could not have
been less than 3,000 persons present. The floor of the house, the
aisles, the galleries, every inch of sitting and standing room
was literally packed. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed
throughout. The officers of the meeting were:
PRESIDENT--Susan B. Anthony.[100]
LUCY STONE, in a letter to _The Una_, says: Last week, at New
York, we had a foretaste of what woman is to expect when she
attempts to exercise her equal rights as a human being. In
conformity with a resolution adopted by the Mass Convention
recently held in Boston, a call was issued, inviting "the
_friends of temperance_" to meet in New York, May 11th, and
prepare for a "World's Convention." Under that call, the Woman's
State Society of New York, an active and efficient body, sent
delegates; but though regularly elected, their credentials were
rejected with scorn. The chairman of the committee reported that
those who called the meeting never intended to include women.
Think of it, a _World's_ Convention, in which woman is voted not
of the world!!
Rev. Dr. Hewitt affirmed it a burning shame for women to be
there; and though it was entirely out of order, he discussed the
question of "Woman's Rights," taking the ground that women should
be nowhere but at home. Rev. E. M. Jackson, gave it as his
opinion, that "the women came there expressly to disturb." The
Rev. Mr. Fowler, of Utica, showed the same contempt for woman
that he did last year, at the N. Y. State Temperance Society, at
Syracuse. Rev. Mr. Chambers was particularly bitter.
It would have been well for those women who accept the foolish
flattery of men, to have been present to see the real estimate in
which woman is held by these men who surely represent a large
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