ould you do it? My blood ran cold
when I saw you up there among those men!" "Why," I asked, "are
they bad men?" "Oh, no! my own husband is one of them; but to see
a woman mixing among men in promiscuous meetings, it was
horrible!" That was six or seven years ago last fall; and that
self-same woman, in Columbus, Ohio, was chosen to preside over a
temperance meeting of men and women; yes, and she took the chair
without the least objection! In Chicago, a woman is cashier of a
bank; and the men gave her a majority of three hundred votes over
her man-competitor. In another State, a woman is register of
deeds. Women can be editors; two sit behind me, Paulina W. Davis
and Mrs. Nichols. Thus we have an accumulation of _facts_ to
support our claims and our arguments.

_Daily Tribune, Sept. 7, 1853._

The Woman's Rights Convention was somewhat disturbed last evening
by persons whose ideas of the rights of free speech are these:
two thousand people assemble to hear a given public question
discussed under distinct announcement that certain persons whose
general views are well known, are to speak throughout the
evening. At least nineteen-twentieths come to hear those
announced speakers, and will be bitterly disappointed if the
opportunity be not afforded them. But one-twentieth have bought
tickets and taken seats on purpose to prevent the hearing of
those speakers, by hissing, yelling, and stamping, and all manner
of unseemly interruptions. Under such circumstances, which should
prevail; the right of the speakers to be heard and the great body
of the audience to hear them according to the announcement, or
the will of the disturbers who choose to say that nineteen out of
twenty shall not have what they have paid for, and what the
promised speakers are most willing to give them?

To state the case exactly as it is, precludes the necessity of
arguing it. We rejoice to say that the will of the great majority
prevailed, and that the discussion which was marked in its
earlier days by occasional tumult was closed in good order, and
amid hushed and gratified attention. We ought, perhaps, to return
thanks to the disturbers for so stirring the souls of the
speakers that their words came gushing forth from their lips with
exceeding fluency