a world's convention.

"Is it asked. Why did you make that issue at that time? I answer,
I have made it at all times and in all places, whenever and
wherever Providence has given me the opportunity, and in whatever
way it could be made to appear most prominent. Last spring, when
woman claimed the supremacy--the right to hold all the offices in
the Woman's State Temperance Society--I contended, from this
platform, for the equality of man; the equal rights of all the
members of this society. I have claimed everywhere the equality
of humanity in Church and in State; God helping me, I here pledge
myself anew to Him, and to you all, to be true everywhere to the
central principle--the soul of the Divine commandment, 'Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' The temperance cause was not
injured by our course at that Convention. We went there with
thoughtful hearts. Said Wendell Phillips: 'Take courage, and
remember that whether you are received or rejected, you are going
to make the most effectual speech for temperance, for woman, and
humanity that you have ever made in your life.' 'God bless you,'
were the fervent words of Mr. Channing, in a moment when there
was most need of Divine assistance; and when I stood on the
platform for an hour and a half, waiting to be heard, I could
read in the faces of men such as these, and in the faces, too, of
our opposers, the calm assurance, 'You are making the most
effectual speech for temperance, for woman, and humanity, that
you have ever made in your life.' I believed it then; I believe
it now."[101]

Rev. William Henry Channing, in giving his report of the World's
Temperance Convention to the Toronto Division of Sons of Temperance of
the City of Rochester, said:

And now it becomes my disagreeable duty, as one of your
delegates, to report to the Toronto Division how my highly
honored fellow-delegate was treated. Her credentials were
received without dissent; she was, of course, then entitled,
_equally_ with every other delegate, to take part in all the
proceedings of the Conventions. At a suitable time and in a
perfectly orderly manner she rose to speak; the floor was
adjudged to her by Hon. Neal Dow, the President, but her right to
the platform was questioned. Again and again the President
declared your del