_New York Tribune, September 3, 1853._

This has been the most spirited and able Convention on behalf of
temperance that was ever held. It has already done good, and can
not fail to do more. The scarcity of white neck-ties on the
platform so fully atoned for by the presence of such champions of
reform and humanity as Antoinette L. Brown, Lucy Stone, and Mrs.
Jackson, of England, Mrs. C I. H. Nichols, Mrs. Frances D. Gage,
etc., that like the absence of wine from our festive board when
it is graced by women, it was the theme of no general or very
pointed regret. It was a great occasion, and we know truth was
there uttered which will bear fruit through coming years.

_Tribune, September 7, 1853._

When the call of the World's Temperance Convention was issued, we
were appealed to by valued friends, whom we know as devoted to
the temperance cause, to discountenance all efforts to get up a
rival Convention. "The call is unexceptionably broad," we were
reminded, "it invites all and excludes nobody, then why not
accept it and hold but one Convention?" The question was fair and
forcible, and had there been no antecedents we should have
acceded to its object. But we could not forget the preliminary
meeting at the Brick Church Chapel, and we could not take the
hazard of having many whom we knew as among the most efficient
and faithful laborers in the Temperance cause shut out of a
World's Convention of its advocates; so we cast our lot with them
about whose catholicity of sentiment and action there could be no
dispute, and yesterday's doings at the Metropolitan Convention
maintained the conviction created by the whole World's Convention
that our decision was right.

We ask especial attention to the proceedings of the World's
Convention yesterday morning, particularly with reference to
Antoinette Brown, who had been chosen by two separate temperance
organizations of men to represent them at this Convention. How
she was received, how treated, and how virtually crowded off the
platform, our report most faithfully exhibits. They who are sure
that the Age of Chivalry is not gone, are urged to ponder this
treatment of a pure and high-souled woman, a teacher of Christian
truth, an ornament of her sex, and an example to all,