class. The President of the meeting, Mayor Barstow, of your city,
indignantly refused to put the motion made--that Susan B. Anthony
should be on a committee, declaring "that he would resign rather
than do it." He said it "was not fit that a woman should be in
such places." After we left, if the papers reported him
correctly, he used language which proved that he was not fit to
be where decent people are. It was next to impossible for us or
our friends to get a hearing. The "previous question" was called,
or we were voted out of order, or half a dozen of the opposing
party talked at once to keep us silent. Rev. T. W. Higginson
declined serving on a committee from which women were excluded,
and when it became apparent that only half of the world could be
represented, he entered his protest, and invited those who were
in favor of a _Whole_ World's Temperance Convention to meet that
afternoon at Dr. Trall's. A large minority withdrew, including
several ministers, and arranged for a Convention that shall know
"neither male nor female," to be held in New York sometime during
The World's Fair.

A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the Broadway
Tabernacle, to protest against the above proceedings, and
although twelve and a half cents were charged at the door, every
seat was occupied, and much of the "standing room" also.

The same gentlemen who excluded us, held a meeting subsequently
in Metropolitan Hall. There your Major Barstow said: "God has
placed woman in the moral world where he has the sun in the
physical, to regulate, enlighten, and cheer." C. C. Burleigh,
alluding to this remark, in our meeting at the Tabernacle, said:
"Thus he calls his Convention, in which Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Mercury, and Neptune are appointed a committee of arrangements,
and says the Sun shall be excluded."

At this meeting, _ladies_ were especially invited to vote, as
though they had a heart in it, and were urged also to give their
money to aid these very men by whom every soul of us had been
insulted. I am sorry to say some gave. But taught such lessons,
by such masters, woman will one day be wiser. Yours, for
humanity, without distinction of sex,
LUCY STONE.

After the Brick Church meeting was over, some of the ac