the race
should be received in that Convention, if they went there with
the proper credentials. I simply planted my feet upon the rights
of a delegate. I asked for nothing more, and dare take nothing
less. The principle which we were there to assert, was that which
is the soul of the Golden Rule, the soul of that which says, "All
things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye
even so unto them." I went there to see if they would be true to
their own call, and recognize delegates without distinction of
color, sex, creed, party, or condition; to see if they would
recognize each member of the human family, as belonging to the
human family; to see if they would grant the simple rights of a
delegate to all delegates.

And do you ask, did this not retard the cause of Temperance? No;
it carried it forward, as it carries every good cause forward. It
awakened thought, and mankind need only to be aroused to thought,
to forever destroy all wrong customs, and among them the rum
traffic. They need only to think to the purpose, and when this
shall be done, all good causes are bound to go forward together.
Christianity is the heart and soul of them all, and those reforms
which seek to elevate mankind and better their condition, cling
around our Christianity, and are a part of it. They are like the
cluster of grapes, all clinging about the central stem.

A wrong was done in that Convention to a delegate, and many
people saw and felt that wrong, and they began to inquire for the
cause of it; and so the causes of things were searched more
nearly than before, and this was a good which promoted
temperance. It is absurd to believe that any man or woman is any
less a temperance man or woman, or a "Maine law" man or woman
now, than before. If ever they loved that cause they love it now
as before.

Water is the very symbol of democracy! a single jet of it in a
tube will balance the whole ocean. We went there, only to claim
in the name of Democracy and Christianity, that all be treated
alike and impartially. The human soul is a holy thing; it is the
temple of living joy or sorrow. It is freighted with vital
realities. It can outlengthen Heaven itself, and it should be
reverenced everywhere, and treated always as a holy thing. We
only went