hether the claims of woman, as stated in this Convention,
were founded in Nature or Revelation. To define either what
Nature or Revelation was, would involve metaphysical argument and
abstract considerations that would take up the entire day. The
basis of the movement was not due to this or that creed. Every
Woman's Rights man or woman does his or her own thinking. He (the
speaker) did his own. Included in the movement were men and women
of all sects. There was Wendell Phillips, who thought himself a
strict Calvinist; there were on the other hand professed atheists
among them, and there were, he believed, Roman Catholics, so that
it would be, in the highest degree, presumptuous for any one man
to speak on that peculiar topic. Antoinette L. Brown had formed
her idea of Woman's Rights from the Bible, and some of her
friends thought that she was wasting her time in writing a
treatise on Woman's Rights, deduced from Scripture. She was an
orthodox Congregational minister, ordained in a Methodist
meeting-house, while a Baptist minister preached the ordination
sermon. There were some of the Woman's Rights friends who
believed that we could get support from the Bible, and some who
believed we could not, and who did not care whether we can or
not. There were, also, those who simply believed that God made
man and woman, and knew what He was about when He made
them--giving them rights founded on the eternal laws of nature.
It was upon these laws of nature that he (Mr. H.) founded his
Woman's Rights doctrines. If there was any book or teacher in the
world which contradicted them, he was sorry for that book and for
that teacher. Was the gentleman answered?

THE GENTLEMAN FROM VIRGINIA rose, in his place, in the rear of
the building, and replied that he was not answered. Although
earnestly invited to come upon the platform and address the
audience, he declined to do so. His remarks, in consequence, were
inaudible to about one-half the audience. He said it seemed to
him that there was an inconsistency and an antagonism between
theology and Mr. Higginson's views, as expressed by himself. The
gentleman had contradicted himself. He refused to treat the
question on the ground of revelation, and then declared that the
claim of Woman's Rights was founded on the fu