wife to the husband, you will find that in no other
position will woman attain her dignity; for God has never dropped
an inadvertent thought, never penned an inadvertent line. There
is not a law or principle of His being, that whoever penned that
Book did not understand. There is not a right which that Book
does not recognize; and there is not a duty which man owes to
woman, or woman to man, that is not there enjoined. It is my firm
conviction, that there is but one thing to be done on this
subject--if the women of this State want the elective franchise,
they can have it. I don't believe it is in the heart of man to
refuse it. Only spread the truth, adhere to Woman's Rights, and
adhere to that one principle, and when the people are convinced
that her claim is just, it will be allowed.

Of Charles C. Burleigh the _Plain Dealer_ says:

This noble poet had not said much in the Convention. He had taken
no part in the interferences and interruptions of other
gentlemen, Mr. Barker and Mr. Nevin for instance.

When at length he took the stand he did indeed speak out a noble
defense of woman's rights. It was the only speech made before the
Convention by man in which the cause of woman was advocated
exclusively. When Mr. Burleigh arose, two or three geese hissed;
when he closed, a shower of applause greeted him.

We hope the reader will not weary of these debates. As the efforts of
many of our early speakers were extemporaneous, but little of what
they said will be preserved beyond this generation unless recorded
now. These debates show the wit, logic, and readiness of our women;
the clear moral perception, the courage, and honesty of our noble
Garrison; the skill and fiery zeal of Stephen Foster; the majesty and
beauty of Charles Burleigh; and, in Asa Mahan, the vain struggles of
the wily priest, to veil with sophistry the degrading slavery of
woman, in order to reconcile her position as set forth in certain
man-made texts of Scripture with eternal justice and natural law. Mr.
Mahan would not have been willing himself, to accept even the mild
form of subjection he so cunningly assigns to woman. The deadliest
opponents to the recognition of the equal rights of woman, have ever
been among the orthodox clergy as a class.

WORLD'S TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.

Just previous to this, two stormy Conventions had been held in the
city