he vilest of the vile,
that I have ever witnessed on any occasion or under any
circumstances; venerable men, claiming to be holy men, the
ambassadors of Jesus Christ, losing all self-respect and
transforming themselves into the most unmannerly and violent
spirits, merely on account of the sex of the individual who
wished to address the assembly.

Miss Brown was asked while standing on the platform, "Do you love
the temperance cause?" What could have been more insulting than
such a question as that at that moment? What but the temperance
cause had brought her to the Convention? Why had she been
delegated to take her seat in that body except on the ground that
she was a devoted friend of the temperance enterprise, and had an
interest in every movement pertaining to the total abstinence
cause? She had been delegated there by total abstinence societies
because of her fitness as a temperance woman to advocate the
temperance cause, so dear to the hearts of all those who love
perishing humanity. Was it the love of the temperance cause that
raised the outcry against her? or was it not simply contempt of
woman, and an unwillingness that she should stand up anywhere to
bear her testimony against popular wrongs and crimes, the curses
of the race?

MISS BROWN: Allow me to state one incident. A Doctor of Divinity
was present at the meeting. His son and daughter-in-law stated to
me the fact. "I said to my father, you had stormy times at the
Convention to-day." "Yes," said the father, "stormy times." Said
the son, "Why didn't you allow her to speak?" "Ah," said the
Doctor, "it was the principle of the thing!" But it so happened
that the son and daughter thought the principle a wrong one.

Mr. Garrison: Yes, it was the principle that was at stake. It was
not simply the making of a speech at that Convention, by a woman.
By her speaking something more was implied, for if woman could
speak there and for that object, she might speak elsewhere for
another object, and she might, peradventure, as my friend does,
proceed to occupy a pulpit and settle over a congregation. In
fact, there is no knowing where the precedent would lead;
reminding me of the man who hesitated to leave off his profanity,
because having left that off he should have to leave off
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