Columbia; of the action of
the Legislatures of Kansas and Wisconsin to strike the words
"white male" from their constitutions; of the discussions and
minority votes in the Legislatures of Maine, Massachusetts, New
York, Ohio, and Missouri; of the addresses of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Lucy Stone before the Judiciary Committees of the New
York and New Jersey Legislatures; of the demand for household
suffrage by the women of England, earnestly maintained by John
Stuart Mill in the British Parliament--all showing that the
public mind everywhere is awake on this question of equal rights
to all. Every mail brings urgent requests from the West for
articles for their papers, for lectures and tracts on the
question of suffrage. In Kansas they are planning mass
conventions, to be held throughout the State through September
and October; and they urge us to send out at least a dozen able
men and women, with 100,000 tracts, to help them educate the
people into the grand idea of universal suffrage, that they may
carry the State at the November election.

Two of our agents, Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, are already
in Kansas, speaking in all her towns and cities--in churches,
school-houses, barns, and the open air; traveling night and day,
by railroad, stage, and ox-cart; scaling the rocky divides, and
fording the swollen rivers--their hearts all aglow with
enthusiasm, greeted everywhere by crowded audiences, brave men
and women, ready to work for the same principles for which they
have suffered in the past, that Kansas, the young and beautiful
hero of the West, may be the first State in the Union to realize
a genuine Republic. The earnest, loyal people of Kansas have
resolved to teach the nation to-day the true principle of
reconstruction, as they taught the nation, twelve years ago, the
one and only way in which to escape from the chains of slavery.
They ask us to help them. So do Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan,
and New York. But for this vast work, as I have already shown
you, we have an empty treasury. We ask you to replenish it. If
you will but give your money generously--if you will but oil the
machinery--this Association will gladly do the work that shall
establish universal suffrage, equal rights to all, in every State
in the Union.