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slime over, and hiss down, and I will show you a cause which God loves, and angels contemplate with admiration.
Such is our movement.
In the intervals of the sessions, he visited the
World's Temperance Convention, where
Wendell Phillips, a delegate, was endeavoring to obtain a hearing for
Antoinette Brown, a fellow-delegate.
Here the mob was in the governing body, especially the clerical portion of it, which descended to depths of shamelessness not exceeded by the
1 gallery disturbers of the
Woman's Rights Convention.
‘I have seen many tumultuous meetings in my day,’ reported
2 Mr. Garrison subsequently,
but I think on no occasion have I ever seen anything more disgraceful to our common humanity than when Miss Brown attempted to speak upon the platform of the World's Temperance Convention, in aid of the glorious cause which had brought that Convention together.3 It was an outbreak of passion, contempt, indignation, and every vile emotion of the soul, throwing into the shade almost everything coming from the vilest of the vile that I have ever witnessed on any occasion or under any circumstances; venerable men, claiming to be holy men, the ambassadors of Jesus Christ, losing all self-respect and transforming themselves into the most unmannerly and violent spirits, merely on account of the sex of the individual who wished to address the assembly.
On October 3,
Mr. Garrison began a tour to the
West4 with special reference to
Michigan.
Cleveland was his first halting-place, for there, on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of the month, the fourth National Woman's Rights Convention was to be held.
He served on the business committee and was among the speakers, the nine sessions passing off
5 with no sign of popular displeasure, though not without clerical disturbance.
6 The first of seven resolutions from his pen read as follows:
Resolved, That the natural rights of one human being are7 those of every other, in all cases equally sacred and inalienable;