g crowds to listen or
to disturb. William Henry Channing. William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell
Phillips and Thomas Wentworth. Higginson eloquently pleading for the
black man's freedom on the anti-slavery platform, and for the equality
of their mothers, wives, and daughters on the woman's rights platform,
and for both the woman and the black man on the temperance platform;
now face to face with Rynders and his mob, and then with the Rev. John
Chambers, Marsh and Hewitt and their mob, the viler of the two.

THE HALF WORLD'S TEMPERANCE CONVENTION,

led by Chambers, Hewitt, and Marsh, was in session in Metropolitan
Hall several days. As it was simply an organized mob, we find in the
journals of the day no speeches or resolutions on the great question
on which they nominally assembled.

In trying to get rid of Antoinette L. Brown, who had been sent as a
delegate from two respectable and influential societies, and of James
McCune Smith, a colored delegate, they quarrelled through most of the
allotted time for the convention over what class of persons could be
admitted. In summing up the proceedings of these meetings

HORACE GREELEY says, in the _Tribune_, September 7, 1853: "This
convention has completed three of its four business sessions, and
the results may be summed up as follows:

"_First Day_--Crowding a woman off the platform.

"_Second Day_--Gagging her.

"_Third Day_--Voting that she shall stay gagged. Having thus
disposed of the main question, we presume the incidentals will be
finished this morning."

Antoinette Brown was asked why she went to that Convention, knowing,
as she must, that she would be rejected.

"I went there," she said, "to assert a principle--a principle
relevant to the circumstances of that convention, and one which
would promote _all_ good causes and retard _all_ bad ones. I went
there, as an item of the world, to contend that the sons and
daughters of the race, without distinction of sex, sect, class or
color, should be recognized as belonging to the world, and I
planted my feet upon the simple _rights of a delegate_. I asked
no favor as a woman, or in behalf of woman; no favor as a woman
advocating temperance; no recognition of the cause of woman above
the cause of humanity; the indorsement of no 'ism' and of no
measure; but I claimed, in the name of the world, the rights of a
delegate in