on, he told persons
with whom he came in contact, that a delegate had been received
by the President, and that delegate had been insulted, and nobody
had risen to sustain her. He said to me, too, "I shall not go
to-morrow, but do you go. I can do nothing for you, because I am
not a delegate." There were a few earnest friends in New York,
however, who felt that the rights of a delegate were sacred. They
organized a society and appointed just three delegates to that
Temperance Convention. Those three persons were Wendell Phillips,
of Boston; Mr. Cleveland, one of the editors of the Tribune; and
Mr. Gibbon, son-in-law of the late venerated Isaac T. Hopper. The
last two were men from New York City. The question was already
decided that women might be received as delegates to that
Convention; therefore there was no need of appointing any one to
insist upon woman's right to appear, and no one was appointed for
that purpose.

The next morning we went there with Mr. Phillips, who presented
his credentials. During the discussion, Mr. Phillips took part,
and persisted in holding the Convention to parliamentary rules.
He carried in his hand a book of rules, which is received
everywhere as authority, and when he saw that they were wrong, he
quoted the standard authority to them. After a while the
preliminary business was disposed of, and various resolutions
were brought forward. I arose, and the President said I had the
floor. I was invited upon the stand, and was therefore an
"invited guest" within their own rules; but when once there, I
was not allowed to speak, although the President said repeatedly
that the floor was mine. The opposition arose from a dozen or
more around the platform, who were incessantly raising "points of
order"--the extempore bantlings of great minds in great
emergencies. For the space of three hours I endeavored to be
heard, but they would not hear me (although as a delegate, and I
spoke simply as a delegate), I could have spoken but ten minutes
by a law of the house. Twice the President was sustained in his
decision by the house; but finally some one insisted that there
might be persons voting in the house who were not delegates, and
it was decided that the Hall should be cleared by the police, and
that those who were deleg