and power. We certainly never before heard
Antoinette Brown, Mrs. Rose, and Lucy Stone speak with such power
and unction as _last night_. It was never before so transparent
that a hiss or a blackguard yell was the only answer that the
case admitted of, and when Lucy Stone closed the discussion with
some pungent, yet pathetic remarks on the sort of opposition
that had been manifest, it was evident that if any of the rowdies
had an ant-hole in the bottom of his boot, he would inevitably
have sunk through it and disappeared forever.

_Herald, Sept. 7, 1853._

THE LAST VAGARY OF THE GREELEY CLIQUE--THE WOMEN, THEIR RIGHTS,
AND THEIR CHAMPIONS.

The assemblage of rampant women which convened at the Tabernacle
yesterday was an interesting phase in the comic history of the
nineteenth century.

We saw, in broad daylight, in a public hall in the city of New
York, a gathering of unsexed women--unsexed in mind all of them,
and many in habiliments--publicly propounding the doctrine that
they should be allowed to step out of their appropriate sphere,
and mingle in the busy walks of every-day life, to the neglect of
those duties which both human and divine law have assigned to
them. We do not stop to argue against so ridiculous a set of
ideas. We will only inquire who are to perform those duties which
we and our fathers before us have imagined belonged solely to
women. Is the world to be depopulated? Are there to be no more
children? Or are we to adopt the French mode, which is too well
known to need explanation?

Another reason why we will not answer the logic which is poured
out from the lips of such persons as Lucy Stone, Mrs. Mott, Mrs.
Amelia Bloomer, and their male coadjutors, Greeley, Garrison,
Oliver, Johnson, Burleigh, and others, is because they themselves
do not believe in the truth or feasibility of the doctrines they
utter. In some cases eccentricity is a harmless disease; but the
idiosyncrasies of these people spring from another source. They
admit the principle that fame and infamy are synonymous terms.
Disappointed in their struggle for the first, they grasp the
last, and at the same time pocket all the money they can wring
from the "barren fools" who can be found in any community eage