ve not?" said he; and answering his own question, he
replied, "The right to do wrong! that alone is denied to them--that
is the only right appropriated exclusively by men, and surely no
true woman would seek to divide or participate in such a right."

The Organ, the New York temperance paper, had this to say:

The harmony and pleasantness of the meeting were disturbed by an
evidently preconcerted irruption of certain women, who have
succeeded beyond doubt in acquiring notoriety, however much they
may have failed in winning respect. The notorious Abby Kelly, the
Miss Stone whose crusade against the Christian doctrine on the
subject of marriage has shocked the better portion of society, and
several other women in pantaloons were present insisting upon their
right to share in the deliberations of the convention.

We wish our friends abroad to understand that the breeze got up
here is nothing but an attempt to ride the woman's rights theory
into respectability on the back of Temperance. And what absurd,
infidel and licentious follies are not packed up under the general
head of woman's rights, it would puzzle any one to say. While,
however, we approve the act excluding the women at the Brick
Church, we feel bound to say that we regretted what seemed to us an
unnecessary acerbity on the part of some of the gentlemen opposing
them. What a load of extraneous, foolish and crooked people and
things the temperance cause has been burdened with during the years
of its progress! To our mind this conspiracy of women to crush the
cause by making it the bearer of their woman's rights absurdities,
is the saddest of all the phenomena of the reform.

The New York Courier, James Watson Webb, editor, gave its readers the
following Sunday article:

Anniversary week has the effect of bringing to New York many
strange specimens of humanity, masculine and feminine. Antiquated
and very homely females made themselves ridiculous by parading the
streets in company with hen-pecked husbands, attenuated
vegetarians, intemperate Abolitionists and sucking clergymen, who
are afraid to say "no" to a strong-minded woman for fear of
infringing upon her rights. Shameless as these females--we suppose
they _were_ females--looked, we should really have thought they
would have blushed as they walked the streets to hear the
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