ame with me for that
purpose. The platform was far from being full; it is a large
platform, and there might a hundred persons sit there, and not
incommode each other at all.

(Here Miss Brown read another extract from the same article, in
which Gen. Carey implies, that concerted measures had been set on
foot at the Woman's Rights meeting at the Tabernacle, the evening
after Miss Brown's first attempt at a hearing before the
Temperance Convention, for coming in upon them again _en masse_,
and revengefully).

Not a word was said that night upon the subject in the Convention
at the Tabernacle, except what was said by myself; and I said
what I did, because some one inquired whether I was hissed on
going upon the platform. As to that matter, when I went upon the
platform I was not hissed, at others times I did not know whether
they hissed me or others, and

"Where ignorance is bliss,'tis folly to be wise."

I stated some of the facts to our own Convention, but I did not
refer to this resolution (the one which was to exclude all but
officers or invited guests from the platform), for I was not
entirely clear with regard to the nature of it, it was passed in
so much confusion. I did state this, that there had been a
discussion raised upon such a resolution, and that it was decided
that only officers and invited guests should sit upon the
platform; but that they had received me as a delegate, and had
thus revoked the action of the Brick Chapel meeting, and that on
the morrow Neal Dow might invite me to sit upon the platform.
That was the substance of my remarks, and not one word of
objection was taken, or reply made by our Convention.

I read again from this paper. (An extract implying that among the
measures taken to browbeat the Convention into receiving Miss
Brown, was the forming of a society instantly, under the special
urgency of herself and friends, for this especial object, etc.)
That again is a statement without foundation. I intend to-night
to use no harsh words, and I shall say nothing with regard to
motives. You may draw your own conclusions in regard to all this.
I shall state dispassionately, the simple, literal facts as they
occurred, and they may speak for themselves.

When Wendell Phillips went out of the Conventi