He denounced the Woman's State Temperance Society and all women publicly engaged in temperance work, declared the women delegates to be "a hybrid species, half man and half woman, belonging to neither sex," and announced finally that if this sentence were not struck out he would dissolve his connection with the society.
A heated debate followed.

Mr.Havens, of New York, offered an amendment recognizing "the right of women to work in their proper sphere--the domestic circle." Rev.May, of the Unitarian church, Rev.Luther Lee, of the Wesleyan Methodist, Hon.

A.N.Cole, a leading Whig politician, and several others, defended the rights of the women in the most eloquent manner, but were howled down.

Miss Anthony made only one attempt to speak and that was to remind them that over 100,000 of the signers to a petition for a Maine Law, the previous winter, were women, but her voice was drowned by Rev.Fowler, of Utica, shouting, "Order! Order!" Herman Camp, of Trumansburg, the president, ruled that she was not a delegate and had no right to speak.

Amid great confusion the question was put to vote and the decision of the chair sustained.