swer. And I must be permitted to say
the whole inquiry manifests a very bad spirit, and is calculated
to promote evils which the public press should suppress rather
than foster.

As I sent you an anonymous communication explaining some of these
matters last Saturday, which you declined publishing, because, I
suppose, it was anonymous, I feel constrained, though
reluctantly, to give this my name.

Yours, etc., JOHN MARSH,

_Office of Am. Temp. Union, No. 149 Nassau St._

HORACE GREELEY'S REPLY.

Rev. John! we have allowed you to be heard at full length; now
you and your set will be silent and hear us.

Very palpably your palaver about Mr. Higginson's motion is a
dodge, a quirk, a most contemptible quibble, reluctant as we are
to speak thus irreverently of the solemn utterances of a Doctor
of Divinity. Right well do you know, reverend sir, that the
particular form, or time, or fashion in which the question came
up is utterly immaterial, and you interpose it only to throw dust
in the eyes of the public. Suppose a woman had been nominated at
the right time, and in the right way, according to your
understanding of punctilios, wouldn't the same resistance have
been made and the same row got up? You know right well that there
would. Then what is all your pettifogging about technicalities
worth? The only question that anybody cares a button about is
this, Shall woman be allowed to participate in your World's
Temperance Convention on a footing of perfect equality with man?
If yea, the whole dispute turns on nothing, and isn't worth six
lines in _The Tribune_. But if it was and is the purpose of those
for whom you pettifog to keep woman off the platform of that
Convention, and deny her any part in its proceedings except as a
spectator, what does all your talk about Higginson's untimeliness
and the Committees being full amount to? Why not treat the
subject with some show of honesty?

Now as to Barnum and Hewitt: it is eminently proper that the
public should know exactly on what ground H. ruled B. off the
Business Committee, and it is self-criminating to plead that a
mantle of secrecy was spread over the doings in Committee. If
Hewitt protested against Barnum