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.