gies of New York, if
they could see and know all that they might see here, would not
be like some spirits, whom Swedenborg says he saw in the other
world. He found spirits who had been departed several years, who
had not yet learned that they were dead. I think Rev. John
Chambers would now look down and begin to suspect that he had
departed.
My friends, I know not how the remarks of Miss Brown fell upon
your ears. I can only say that they struck me with deep feelings
of mortification, that at this noontide of the nineteenth century
any human being, who can give her thoughts to an assembly in the
eloquent manner in which she has spoken to us, has been treated
as she was; and when this resolution of reproof by my friend from
Massachusetts was presented, I resolved to rise and second it,
and express myself willing that it be sent out in the report,
that I most heartily concur in the expressions contained in these
resolutions.
WILLIAM L. GARRISON: I wish to make one statement in regard to
General Carey, to show that he does not himself act on consistent
principles, in this matter. The last number of the _Pennsylvania
Freeman_ contains an account of a temperance gathering held in
Kennett Square. That square is for that region the headquarters
of Abolitionists, Liberals, Come-outers, and so forth. In that
meeting women were appointed for Vice-Presidents and Secretaries
with men, and there was a complete mixture throughout the
committees without regard to sex; and who do you think were those
who spoke on that occasion recognizing that woman was equal with
man in that gathering? The first was G. W. Jackson, of Boston,
who made himself very conspicuous in the exclusion of women from
the "World's Convention"; second, Judge O'Neil, of South
Carolina, who spoke at New York, and who was also very active in
the efforts to exclude Miss Brown; last of all was General Carey,
of Ohio; and three days afterward they wended their way to New
York, and there conspired with others to prevent a delegate from
being admitted, on the ground of being a woman; showing that
while at old Kennett they were willing to conform, finding it
would be popular; in New York they joined in this brutal
proscription of a woman, only because she was a woman.
LUCY STONE:
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