was much more conservative on the woman’s question than America.  The managers of the World’s Convention did not take kindly to the notion of women members, and signified to the American societies who had placed women among their delegates that the company of the women was not expected.  Those societies, however, made no alteration in deference to this notice, in the character of their delegations, but stood stoutly by their principle of “the EQUAL BROTHERHOOD of the entire HUMAN FAMILY without distinction of color, sex, or clime.”

A contest over the admission of women to membership in the World’s Convention was therefore a foregone conclusion.  The convention, notwithstanding a brilliant fight under the lead of Wendell Phillips in behalf of their admission, refused to admit the women delegates.  The women delegates instead of having seats on the floor were forced in consequence of this decision to look on from the galleries.  Garrison, who with Charles Lenox Remond, Nathaniel P. Rogers, and William Adams, was late in arriving in England, finding, on reaching London the women excluded from the convention and sitting as spectators in the galleries, determined to take his place among them, deeming that the act of the convention which discredited the credentials of Lucretia Mott and her sister delegates, had discredited his own also.  Remond, Rogers, and Adams followed his example and took their places with the rejected women delegates likewise.  The convention was scandalized at such proceedings, and did its best to draw Garrison and his associates from the ladies in the galleries to the men on the floor, but without avail.  There they remained an eloquent protest against the masculine narrowness of the convention.  Defeated in New York, the delegates of the new American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society triumphed over their victors in London.  But their achievements in the World’s Convention, in this regard, was not of a sort to entitle them to point with any special pride in after years; and, as a matter of fact, not one of them would have probably cared to have their success alluded to in any sketch of their lives for the perusal of posterity.

Garrison and his associates were the recipients of the most cordial and flattering attention from the English Abolitionists.  He was quite lionized, in fact, at breakfasts, fetes, and soirees.  The Duchess of Sunderland paid him marked attention and desired his portrait, which was done for Her Grace by the celebrated artist, Benjamin Robert Haydon, who executed besides a large painting of the convention, in which he grouped the most distinguished members with reference to the seats actually occupied by them during its sessions.  Of course to leave Garrison out of such a picture would almost seem like the play of “Hamlet” with Hamlet omitted, a blunder which the artist was by no means disposed to make.  Garrison was accordingly invited to sit to him for his portrait.  Haydon, who it seems