by a
Convention of Reformers and Gentlemen, many of them from that
section of the Union where the defence of woman from insult has
been deemed a manly grace, if not a manly duty. We presume the
matter will be further considered to-day.

Of the _Whole_ World's Temperance Convention a correspondent of
_The Una_ says: "Throughout, the meeting has been one of intense
interest; not a moment's flagging, not a poor or unworthy speech
made by either man or woman. Again and again, as we passed into
the large hall, filled with eager listeners, we felt it to be one
of the most sublime scenes we had ever looked upon. There the
audience remained, hour after hour, patient, earnest, full of
enthusiasm, and yet hundreds could scarcely hear a single
connected sentence. The majority were women, but the larger
number of the speakers were men. The right and equality being
recognized, there was no longer a necessity for controversy to
maintain principle, hence no woman attempted to speak except she
had something to say. Mrs. Jackson, of England, Mrs. Nichols,
Mrs. Vaughan, Miss Stone, Rev. A. L. Brown, Lucretia Mott, and
Mrs. F. D. Gage addressed the Convention during the different
sessions."

The same correspondent says of the _World's_ Temperance
Convention: "There was one feature more anomalous than the
rejection and gagging of Miss Brown, darker and far more cruel,
for it has not the excuse of custom, nor can the Bible be
tortured into any justification of it. This was the exclusion of
Dr. James McCune Smith, a gentleman, a graduate of the Edinburgh
University, a member of a long-established temperance society,
and a regularly appointed delegate. And wherefore? simply for the
reason that nature had bestowed on his complexion a darker,
richer tint than upon some of the sycophants who gathered there;
it appears to have been simply to pander to a bigoted priesthood
and a corrupt populace."

In deciding the action of the Convention to be worse in its treatment
toward Mr. Smith than toward Miss Brown, we think _The Una_
correspondent makes a grave mistake.

In point of courtesy the treatment of a lady of culture and
refinement, the peer of any man in that assembly, with the
unpardonable rudeness they did, was infinitely worse than to have done
the same thing to any man, white o