ndamental laws of
God and nature. Here he took issue with Mr. H. The test of the
naturalness of a claim was its universality. The principles upon
which it was based must be found wherever man was found, and must
have existed through all time and under every condition of life.
What was found everywhere under all circumstances was natural.
This Woman's Rights claim was not found everywhere even in this
country, let alone others. He knew many enlightened and refined
districts which had never heard the principles of this society,
much less felt them. They were not popular anywhere in the age in
which they were inaugurated. Therefore they were not founded in
nature, and the claim of naturalism must fall to the ground. The
taste for the beautiful, and the love of right, were innate
faculties of the mind, because they existed everywhere; not so
with the recognition of the claim of Woman's Rights. Again, the
claim was not based on revelation, which he would prove in this
way: Revelation is never inconsistent with itself. The claim for
woman of the right to vote, inasmuch as she would of necessity
vote as she pleased, and therefore sometimes contrary to her
husband, involved a disobedience of her husband, which was
directly antagonistic to the injunction of the Scriptures
requiring wives to obey their husbands.

AN ELDERLY QUAKER LADY in the body of the audience rose, and told
the gentleman from the Old Dominion that if he wished to do any
good he must come on the platform where he could be heard. The
gentleman declined.

LUCY STONE said that men had rights as well as women, and she
would not insist on the gentleman coming to the platform if he
chose to remain where he was, but it would be more convenient if
he would come.

THE GENTLEMAN FROM VIRGINIA still declined, and proceeded to
quote Scripture against the Woman's Rights movement.

THE QUAKER LADY again started up, and told him he had got hold of
the letter of the Bible, but not the spirit.

LUCY STONE desired that each speaker would take his or her turn,
"in due order, so that all might be edified."

THE GENTLEMAN FROM VIRGINIA proceeded. Referring to a remark of
Mr. Phillips on the preceding evening, in connection with a
quotation from Tacitus, "that this movement was Paul again