As it was inconsistent with Mrs. Mott's Quaker principles to call upon
the police for the forcible suppression of the mob, she vacated the
chair, inviting Ernestine L. Rose to take her place. The last evening
session opened with a song by G. W. Clark; but the music did not
soothe the mob soul; he was greeted with screeches, which his voice
only at brief intervals could drown.

The President then introduced a German lady, Madame Mathilde Francesca
Anneke, editor of a liberal woman's rights newspaper which had been
suppressed in Germany. She had but recently landed in our country, and
hastened to the Convention to enjoy the blessings of free speech in a
republic. She had heard so much of freedom in America, that she could
hardly express her astonishment at what she witnessed. After many
attempts, and with great difficulty, owing to the tumult and
interruption by impertinent noises, she spoke as follows, in German,
Mrs. Rose translating her remarks into English:

I wish to say only a few words. On the other side of the Atlantic
there is no freedom of any kind, and we have not even the right
to claim freedom of speech. But can it be that here, too, there
are tyrants who violate the individual right to express opinions
on any subject? And do you call yourselves republicans? No; there
is no republic without freedom of speech. (The tumult showing no
signs of abatement),

WENDELL PHILLIPS came forward, and said: Allow me to say one
word, purely as a matter of the self-respect which you owe to
yourselves. We are citizens of a great country, which, from Maine
to Georgia, has ex tended a welcome to Kossuth, and this New York
audience is now looking upon a noble woman who stood by his side
in the battle-fields of Hungary; one who has faced the cannon of
Francis Joseph of Austria, for the rights of the people. Is this
the welcome you give her to the shores of republican America? A
woman who has proved her gallantry and attachment to principles,
wishes to say five words to you of the feelings with which she is
impressed toward this cause. I know, fellow-citizens, that you
will hear her.

The audience showing a better disposition to hear Madame Anneke, she
proceeded thus:

I saw this morning, in a paper, that the women of America have
met in convention to claim their rights. I rejoiced when I saw
that they recognized