onists
of the most frantic and contemptible kind and Christian (?)
sympathizers with such heretics as Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Parker
Pillsbury, O.C. Burleigh and S.S. Foster. These men are all woman's
righters and preachers of such damnable doctrines and accursed
heresies as would make demons of the pit shudder to hear. We have
selected a few appropriate passages from God's Bible for the
consideration of the infuriated gang at the convention.

The New York Herald, under the elder Bennett, which from the beginning
of the demand had been the inveterate foe of equal rights for women,
contained the following editorial, September 12, 1852:

The farce at Syracuse has been played out. We publish today the
last act, in which it will be seen that the authority of the Bible,
as a perfect rule of faith and practice for human beings, was voted
down, and what are called the laws of nature set up instead of the
Christian code. We have also a practical exhibition of the
consequences that flow from woman leaving her true sphere, where
she wields all her influence, and coming into public to discuss
morals and politics with men. The scene in which Rev. Mr. Hatch
violated the decorum of his cloth and was coarsely offensive to
such ladies present as had not lost that modest "feminine element"
on which he dwelt so forcibly, is the natural result of the conduct
of the women themselves who, in the first place, invited discussion
about sexes, and, in the second place, so broadly defined the
difference between the male and the female as to be suggestive of
anything but purity to the audience. The women of the convention
have no right to complain, but for the sake of his clerical
character, if no other motive influenced him, he ought not have
followed so bad an example. His speech was sound and his argument
conclusive, but his form of words was not in the best taste. The
female orators were the aggressors, but to use his own language he
ought not to have measured swords with a woman, especially when he
regarded her ideas and expressions as bordering upon the obscene.
But all this is the natural result of woman placing herself in a
false position. As Rev. Mr. Hatch observed, if she ran with horses
she must expect to be betted upon. The whole tendency of these
conventions is by no means to increase the influence of woman