ther Conventions have been
met like this--with hisses. (Renewed hisses). Go on with your
hisses; geese have hissed before now. If it be your pleasure to
argue the question for us, by proving that the men here, at
least, are not fit for exercising political rights. (Great
uproar).

Mrs. ROSE: I regret that I have again to call upon the police to
keep order; and if they are not able to do it, I call upon the
meeting to help them.

Mr. PHILLIPS: You prove one thing to-night, that the men of New
York do not understand the meaning of civil liberty and free
discussion.

Antoinette Brown made an attempt to speak, but soon ceased amidst the
most indescribable uproar. Mr. Elliott then jumped upon the platform,
and harangued the audience as a representative of the rowdies, though
he claimed for himself great fairness and respectability. He said:

If taxation without representation be robbery, then robbery is
right, and I am willing to be robbed. For twelve years I have
paid taxes; and here and in other countries I have, in return,
got protection. Robbery is, to take away property forcibly
without giving an equivalent for it; but a good equivalent is
given for taxation. In this and other countries, the property of
individuals is taken from them, as when an owner of land is
deprived of it by the State to make a railroad through it; that
is no robbery; an equivalent is given, and the owner is fairly
dealt by. We have heard many instances of the tyranny inflicted
on women; but is that a reason that they should vote? If it be,
minors, who are under a double tyranny, that of father and mother--

Here the audience seemed to have lost all patience, and Mr. Elliott's
voice was completely drowned in the uproar. He retired, repeating that
he had proved the rowdies were not all on one side. The confusion now
reached its climax. A terrific uproar, shouting, yelling, screaming,
bellowing, laughing, stamping, cries of "Burleigh," "Root," "Truth,"
"Shut up," "Take a drink," "Greedey," etc., prevented anything orderly
being heard, and the Convention, on the motion of Mrs. Rose, was
adjourned _sine die_; the following resolution having first been read
by Dr. Harriot K. Hunt, and passed without dissent:

_Resolved_, That the members of this Convention, and the audience
assembled, tender their thanks to Lucretia Mott f