Soon after its publication the sisters went to New York and there openly
identified themselves with the members of the American Anti-Slavery
Society; and also of the Female Anti-Slavery Society. The account of the
first assembly of women, not Quakers, in a public place in America,
addressed by American women, as given in these pages, is deeply
interesting and touching from its very simplicity. We, who are so
accustomed to hear women speak to promiscuous audiences on any and every
subject, will naturally smile at the following memoranda by Angelina:--
We went home to tea with Julia Tappan, and Brother Weld was all anxiety
to hear about the meeting. Julia undertook to give some account, and
among other things mentioned that a warm-hearted abolitionist had found
his way into the back part of the meeting, and was escorted out by Henry
Ludlow. Weld's noble countenance instantly lighted up, and he exclaimed:
"How supremely ridiculous to think of a man's being shouldered out of a
meeting for fear he should hear a woman speak!"....
In the evening a colonizationist of this city came to introduce an
abolitionist to Lewis Tappan. We women soon hedged in our expatriation
brother, and held a long and interesting argument with him until near
ten o'clock. He gave up so much that I could not see what he had to
stand on when we left him.
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