or the grace,
firmness, ability, and courtesy with which she has discharged her
important and often arduous duties.

_Daily Tribune, Sept. 8, 1853._

WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION:--MEETING AT THE TABERNACLE.

_Evening Session_.--Tremendous uproar--close of the Convention.
Yesterday evening being the last sitting of this Convention, the
approach to the Tabernacle was thronged long before the hour for
opening the doors, and considerable excitement seemed to prevail.
At about seven o'clock the Tabernacle doors were thrown open, and
the rush for tickets and admission to the anxious throng could
only be equalled by that of a Jenny Lind night. The building,
capable of holding some 2,000 persons, was immediately filled to
excess, and the principal promoters of the movement took their
places on the platform.... Mr. George W. Clark, who had been
requested to sing a song on "Freedom of Thought," did so in a
style apparently not much approved by the audience, who at a very
early stage began to give vent to all kinds of groans and
ironical cheers.

Mrs. MARTIN, of this State, was then introduced, and with
considerable difficulty began her address.

(Cries--"No! no!" and tremendous yells and laughter). "Time's
up," "That'll do." (Loud hisses, groans, laughter, tigers, and
demoniac sounds from the galleries). Cries of "Phillips!
Phillips." (Hisses and yells).

_Tribune, Sept. 9, 1853._

We do not know whether any of the _gentlemen_ who have succeeded
in breaking up the Woman's Rights Convention, or of the other
_gentlemen_ who have succeeded in three sessions at Metropolitan
Hall in silencing a regularly appointed and admitted delegate,
will ever be ashamed of their passion and hostility, but we have
little doubt that some of them will live to understand their own
folly. At any rate, they have accomplished a very different thing
from what they now suppose. For if it had been their earnest
desire to strengthen the cause of Woman's Rights, they could not
have done the work half so effectively. Nothing is so good for a
weak and unpopular movement as this sort of opposition. Had
Antoinette Brown been allowed to speak at Metropolitan Hall, her
observations would certainly have occupied but a fraction