e who
committed the crime, or who is, if not the main, the great
secondary cause of it,--he who is endowed with superior
advantages of education and experience, he who has taken
advantage of that weakness and confiding spirit, which the young
always have,--I ask, if the victim is cast out of the pale of
society, shall the despoiler go free?" The question was answered
by a thunder of "No! no! no!" from all parts of the house. A
profound sensation was observable. "And yet," said Mrs. Rose, "he
does go free!!"

Ernestine L. Rose, says the _Plain Dealer_, is the master-spirit of
the Convention. She is described as a Polish lady of great beauty,
being known in this country as an earnest advocate of human liberty.
Though a slight foreign accent is perceptible, her delivery is
effective. She spoke with great animation. The impression made by her
address was favorable both to the speaker and the cause. In speaking
of the _personnel_ of the platform, it says:

Mrs. Lydia Ann Jenkins, of New York, who made an effective
speech, is habited in the Bloomer costume, and appears to much
advantage on the stage. Her face is amiable, and her delivery
excellent. She is as fine a female orator as we have heard. The
address embodied the usual arguments offered in favor of this
cause, and were put in a forcible and convincing manner. We say
convincing, because such a speaker would convince the most
obdurate unbeliever against his will.

Miss Stone is somewhat celebrated for an extraordinary enthusiasm
in the cause of her sex, and for certain eccentricities of speech
and thought, as well as of outward attire. She is as independent
in mind as in dress. She is as ready to throw off the restraints
society seems to have placed on woman's mind, as she is to cast
aside what she considers an absurd fashion in dress. Without
endorsing the eliminated petticoats, we can not but admire Miss
Stone's "stern old Saxon pluck," and her total independence of
the god, Fashion. Her dress is first a black velvet coat with
collar, fastened in front with buttons, next a skirt of silk,
reaching to the knees, then "she wears the breeches" of black
silk, with neat-fitting gaiters. Her hair is cut short and combed
straight back. Her face is not beautiful, but there is mind in
it; it is earnest, pleasant, preposse