ting she should stay gagged;"
and asserts that it is a misrepresentation.

The evenings of that Convention were not devoted to this
discussion, and wore not noisy or fruitless. There were burning
words spoken for temperance during the evenings; but whether the
_Tribune's_ report of the day-sessions be correct or not, you
yourselves can be the judges. I must say, however, the _Tribune_
did not misrepresent that affair in its regular report; and I
call upon Gen. Carey, in all kindness and courtesy; to point out
just what the misstatements are--and upon any one acquainted with
the facts, to show the false statement, if it can be shown.

And now I leave the action of the Convention to say what were our
motives in going there. From what I have related of the
circumstances which conspired to induce us to go, and the manner
of our going, you can but see that no absurd desire for
notoriety, no coveting of such unenviable fame as we know must
await us, were the inducements. And as a simple fact, there was
nothing so very important in a feeble woman's going as a delegate
to that Convention; but the fact was made an unpleasant one in
the experience of that delegate, and was blown into notoriety by
the unmanly action of that Convention itself. But what were our
reasons for going to that Convention? Did we go there to forward
the cause of Temperance or to forward the cause of woman, or what
were our motives in going? Woman was pleading her own cause in
the Convention at the Tabernacle, and she had no need that any
should go there to forward her cause for her; and much as I love
temperance, and love those poor sisters who suffer because of
intemperance, it was not especially to plead their cause that I
went there. I went to assert a principle, a principle relevant to
the circumstances of the World's Convention to be sure, but one,
at the same time, which, acknowledged, must forward all good
causes, and, disregarded, must retard them. I went there, asking
no favor as a woman, asking no special recognition of the
woman-cause. I went there in behalf of the cause of humanity. I
went there, asking the indorsement of no ism, and as the exponent
of no measure, but as a simple item of the world in the name of
the world, claiming that all the sons and daughters of