cluded with the rest. He stands as an accredited
Presbyterian, giving the hand of fellowship to the fraternity,
and withholding it from Garrison and others--he could not even
pray a few years ago in an anti-slavery meeting. Now, either the
Bible is against the Church and clergy, or else they have
misinterpreted it for two hundred years, yes, for six thousand
years. You must then either discard the Bible or the priesthood,
or give up Woman's Rights.

A friend says he does not regret this discussion. Why, it is the
only thing we have done effectively since we have been here. When
we played with jack-straws, we were hail-fellow with those who
now oppose us. When you come to take up the great questions of
the movement, when you propose to man, to divide with woman the
right to rule, then a great opposition is aroused. The ballot-box
is not worth a straw until woman is ready to use it. Suppose a
law were passed to-morrow, declaring woman's rights equal with
those of men, why, the facts would remain the same. The moment
that woman is ready to go to the ballot-box, there is not a
Constitution that will stand in the country. In this very city,
in spite of the law, I am told that negroes go to the ballot-box
and vote, without let or hindrance; and woman will go when she
resolves upon it. What we want for woman is the right of speech;
and in Dr. Nevin's reply to Mrs. Foster, does he mean that he
would be willing to accord the right of speech to woman and admit
her into the pulpit? I don't believe he would admit Antoinette
Brown to his pulpit. I was sorry Mrs. Foster did not ask him if
he would. I don't believe he dares to do it. I would give him a
chance to affirm or deny it. I hope some other friend will give
him that opportunity, and that Antoinette Brown may be able to
say that she was invited by the pastor of one of the largest
churches in this beautiful city, to speak to his people in his
pulpit; but if he does it, he is not merely one among a thousand,
but one among ten thousand.

I wish to have it understood that an infidel is as much at home
here as a Christian; and that his principles are no more
"dragged" here than those of a Christian. For myself, I claim to
be a Christian. No man ever heard me speak of Christ or of His
doctrines, but