elf of the
Woman's Rights movement as giving him such an opportunity. Have
you ever seen a little boy running along the street, and
carefully dodging between two big boys? If you have, that was the
editor of _The Times_ between Greeley and Bennett. _The Times_
seeks to be a journal and nothing else. I will always say of it,
continued the speaker, that the _reports_ in _The Times_ are
very perfect and very excellent. I do not mean any disrespect to
the other reporters present when I say that the report of
yesterday's proceedings of this Convention, published in this
morning's _Times_, was fuller and far more perfect than the
report of any other paper. And so it always is with the reports
of _The Times_. They are as full, as its criticisms on moral
subjects are empty.

LUCY STONE vacated the chair to address the meeting. She was more
than glad, for the sake of the cause, that this discussion had
arisen. She was glad that the question had been asked, whether
this claim was based on nature or on revelation. Many were asking
the same question, and it was proper that it should be answered.
If we were living in New Zealand where there is no revelation and
nobody has ever heard of one, there would yet be an everlasting
truth or falsehood on this question of woman's rights, and the
inhabitants of that island would settle it in some way, without
revelation. The true test of every question is its own merits.
What is true will remain. What is false will perish like the
leaves of autumn when they have served their turn.

But in regard to this question of Nature and Revelation, we found
our claim on both. By Revelation I suppose the gentleman means
Scripture. I find it there, "He who spake as never man spake"
held up before us all radiant with God's own sunlight the great
truth, "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them"; and that revelation I take as the
foundation of our claim, and tell the gentleman who takes issue
with us, that if he would not take the position of woman, denied
right of access to our colleges, deprived of the right of
property, compelled to pay taxes, to obey laws that he never had
a voice in making, and be defrauded of the children of his love,
then, according to the revelation which he bel