lecture at Association Hall
to-morrow evening. It has been said that we have done the women's
rights people injustice in charging upon them the infidelity of
Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose. If we have done them injustice in this
matter it is but right that we should make amends by calling
attention to the lecture of Miss Brown, which, as we understand,
will embrace the Bible argument in favor of the measures which
they advocate. Miss Brown is a talented woman, and we have no
doubt an exemplary Christian.

_For the Albany Daily State Register._

WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

Mr. EDITOR:--In your paper of Monday the 6th inst., I perceive
you pass judgment upon the woman's rights cause, upon those
engaged in it, and particularly upon myself--how justly, I leave
to your conscience to decide.

Every one who ever advanced a new idea, no matter how great and
noble, has been subjected to criticism, and therefore we too must
expect it. And, in accordance with the spirit of the critic, will
be the criticism. Whether dictated by the spirit of justice,
kindness, gentleness, and charity, or by injustice, malice,
rudeness, and intolerance, it is still an index of the man. But
it is quite certain that no true soul will ever be deterred from
the performance of a duty by any criticism.

But there is one thing which I think even editors have no right
to do, namely: to state a positive falsehood, or even to imply
one, for the purpose of injuring another. And, as the spirit of
charity induces me to believe that in your case it was done more
from a misunderstanding than positive malice, therefore I claim
at your hands the justice to give this letter a place in your
paper.

In the article alluded to, you say: "Ernestine L. Rose came to
this country, as she says, from Poland, whence she was compelled
to fly in pursuit of freedom." It is true that I came from
Poland; but it is false that I was compelled to fly from my
country, except by the compulsion, or dictates of the same spirit
of "propagandism," that induced so many of my noble countrymen to
shed their blood in the defence of the rights of this country,
and the rights of man, wherever he struggles for freedom. But I
have no desire to claim martyrdom which does not belong to