I know it is time to take the question upon these
resolutions, but I wish to say one word. When a world's
convention of any kind is called--when the Rev. Drs. Chambers,
Hewett, Marsh, and I don't know how many more, backed up by a
part of those who were in that convention, are ready to ignore
the existence of woman, it should show us something of the amount
of labor we have to do, to teach the world even to know that we
are a part of it; and when women tell us they don't want any more
rights, I want them to know that they are held to have no right
in any world's convention. I took up a book the other day,
written by the Rev. Mr. Davis, in which he sketches the events of
the last fifty years. He states that the Sandwich Islands at one
time had one missionary at such a station; Mr. Green--and his
wife! Then he went on to state another where there were nineteen,
and--their wives! Now these are straws on the surface, but they
indicate "which way the wind blows," and indicate, in some sense,
the estimation in which woman is held. I mention these facts so
that we may see something of the length of the way we must tread,
before we shall even be recognized.

The reader will see from these debates the amount of prejudice,
wickedness, and violence, woman was compelled to meet from all classes
of men, especially the clergy, in those early days, and on the other
hand the wisdom, courage, and mild self-assertion with which she
fought her battle and conquered. There is not a man living who took
part in that disgraceful row who would not gladly blot out that page
in his personal history. But the few noble men--lawyers, statesmen,
clergymen, philanthropists, poets, orators, philosophers--who have
remained steadfast and loyal to woman through all her struggles for
freedom--have been brave and generous enough to redeem their sex from
the utter contempt and distrust of all womankind.

NATIONAL CONVENTION AT CINCINNATI, OHIO.

In 1855, October 17th and 18th, the people of Cincinnati, Ohio, were
summoned to the consideration of the question of Woman's Rights. A
brief report in the city journals, is all we can find of the
proceedings. From these we learn that the meetings were held in
Nixon's Hall, that some ladies wore bloomers, and some gentlemen
shawls, that the audiences were large and enthusiastic, that the
curiosity to see women who could mak