me members of the convention. A
business committee of one from each State was appointed and a motion
was made that Susan B. Anthony, secretary of the Woman's Temperance
Society, be added to the committee. This opened the battle with the
opposition and one angry and abusive speech followed another. Abby
Kelly Foster, the eloquent anti-slavery orator, tried to speak, but
shouts of "order" drowned her voice and, after holding her position for
ten minutes, she finally was howled down.

Almost the entire convention was composed of ministers of the Gospel.
Hon. Bradford R. Wood, of Albany, moved that, as there was a party
present determined to introduce the question of woman's rights and run
it into the ground, the convention adjourn sine die. He finally was
persuaded to withdraw this and substitute a motion that a committee be
appointed to decide who were members of the convention, although this
had been settled at the opening of the meeting by the accepting of
credentials. This committee consisted of Mr. Wood, Rev. John Chambers,
a Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and Rev. Condit, of New
Jersey. They were out fifteen minutes and reported that, as in their
opinion the call for this meeting was not intended to include female
delegates, and custom had not sanctioned the public action of women in
similar situations, their credentials should be rejected. And this
after they already had been accepted!

Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, pastor of the Unitarian church in
Worcester, Mass., at once resigned from the business committee and
withdrew from the meeting, as did also the women delegates and such
gentlemen, including several ministers, as thought the ladies had been
unjustly treated. They met at Dr. Trail's office and decided to call a
Whole World's Temperance Convention which should not exclude one-half
the world, and that the half which was doing the most effective work
for temperance.

After they left the Brick Church meeting there were many speeches made
condemning the action of women in taking public part in any reforms,
led by Rev. Fowler, of Utica, Rev. Hewitt, of Bridgeport, Conn., and
Rev. Chambers. The last said he rejoiced that the women were gone, as
they were "now rid of the scum of the convention." Mayor Barstow, who
had threatened to resign rather than put the motion that Miss Anthony
should be on the business committee, made a speech which the press
declared too indecent to be reported. It must be re