*. As quoted in the New York Tribune, October 26, 1850. Mott was speaking at the First National Woman's Rights Convention. Her comments quickly became notorious. The New York Herald wrote in its October 28 issue that "Mrs. Lucretia Mott, the ruling spirit of the establishment, thought that St. Paul, being an old bachelor, was a perfect ninny, and didn't know anything about women, was no sort of judge, and was not entitled to respect. . . . St. Paul, after all, was only a barbarian, full of the ignorance and prejudice of the day."