e throne of God! (Hisses).
Hiss, ye serpents! ye have nothing else to offer. There is not
one of you to whom God has given a brain to fashion an argument.
But it goes on record, and all the journals of this city will
themselves bear testimony, that no one takes the platform, like
an honest and honorable man, to argue this cause down. Therefore,
the whole ground is won, and we stand, as we have stood from the
beginning, on the rock of victory.

It was rather singular that in this Convention, so entirely under the
control of a mob, that there should be found one man who dared to
stand upon the platform and announce that he had been an opponent for
ten years, and was connected with a journal which had initiated this
mob; and now he desired to give in his adhesion, and to confess his
conversion. This was one of the remarkable incidents of the occasion.

ISAAC C. PRAY said: Until within two years I have been an
incessant opponent of the persons on this platform, in a leading
journal in this city, which gives the cue to the hisses in that
gallery. I have myself given--(applause). Pray spare your
plaudits; I do not wish for them. In November, 1851, I retired
from that journal, and I have since applied myself to study. This
movement, among others, has come under my notice, and I have
given it much attention. The result is, that I have entirely
changed my opinion with regard to it. I know, not only that my
former opinion was wrong, but that this movement is one which you
can not stop; it emanates from the Deity himself, whose influence
urges man forward on the path of progress. I say to the clergy,
if they ignore this movement, they ignore that accountability to
the Almighty which they preach. I do not mean to enter into any
argument on this subject, but merely wish to say, as each one is
accountable for his energies to God, you must go on in this good
and holy cause; also, I wish to show that there is such a thing
as a man's changing his opinion. This cause has been the butt of
all the ridicule I could command. I scoffed at it, in season and
out of season. There is not a lady on this platform whom my pen
has not assailed; and now I come to make all the reparation in my
power, by thus raising my voice on behalf of them and the cause
committed to their hands. (Cheers and stamping).