_The Times_ next day commented as follows:

_The New York Times, Sept. 9, 1853._

THE ROW OF YESTERDAY.--Row No. 3 was a very jolly affair, a
regular break-down, at the Woman's Convention. The women had
their rights, and more beside. The cause was simply that the
rowdyish diathesis is just now prevalent. True, a colored woman
made a speech, but there was nothing in that to excite a
multitude; she did not speak too low to be heard; she did not
insult them with improper language; nor did the audience respond
at all insultingly. They did not curse, they only called for
"half a dozen on the shell." They did not swear, they only
"hurried up that stew." They did wrong, however.

If we had our own way every rascally rowdy among them should have
Bloomers of all colors preaching at them by the year--a year for
every naughty word they uttered, a score of them for every hiss.
Out upon the villains who go to any meeting to disturb it. Let
anybody who can hire a house and pay for it have his way, and let
none be disturbed; the opposers can stay away. But for us, let us
be thankful that in such hot weather there is something to amuse
us, something to season our insipid dishes, something to spice
our dull days with. _Mem._ It was cooler in the evening.

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CAROLINE M. SEVERANCE, of Ohio, presented an argument and appeal
based upon the following propositions: That as the manifest
dissimilarities which cause the _nations_ of the earth to differ,
physically, and in degree of mental and moral development and
cultivation, are not found justly to invalidate their claim to a
place in the vast brotherhood of man--to fullness of family
communion and rights; so there are no radical differences of _the
sexes_ in these respects, which can at all impair the integrity
of an equal humanity--no sufficient basis for a distinction in so
comprehensive a classification.

The fundamental facts and faculties--the higher and more
essential attributes which make up the accepted definition of
humanity in our day, are identical in both--are no more confined
or unduly allotted to one sex than to one nation.

On the broad basis of this philosophy, on the ground of woman's
undeniable and equal humanity, proven by the posses