ucy Stone:

"ATCHISON, KANSAS, May 10, 1867.

"Impartial Suffrage, _without regard to color or sex_, will
succeed by overwhelming majorities. Kansas leads the world!
LUCY STONE."

Miss ANTHONY also read a hopeful and interesting letter from Hon.
S. N. Wood, of Kansas, showing his plans for the canvass of that
State.

JOSEPHINE GRIFFING said: I am well satisfied that this Convention
ought not to adjourn until a similar plan is laid out for all the
States in the Union, and especially for the District of Columbia.
This being a national convention, it seems peculiarly appropriate
that it should begin its work at the District of Columbia. The
proposition has already been made there, and the parties have
discussed its merits. The question of the franchise arose from
the great fact that at the South there were four millions of
people unrepresented. The fact of woman's being also
unrepresented is now becoming slowly understood. It is easier now
to talk and act upon that subject in the District of Columbia
than ever before, or than it will be again. Even the President
has said that if woman in the District of Columbia shall
intelligently ask for the right of franchise, he shall by no
means veto it. To my mind the enfranchisement of woman is a
settled fact. We can not reconstruct this government until the
franchise shall be given not merely to the four millions but to
the fifteen millions. We can not successfully reconstruct our
government unless we go to the foundation. Let us apply all the
force we can to the lever, for we have a great body to lift. No
matter how ready the public is, we can accomplish nothing unless
we have some plan, and unless we have workers. I presume none of
us are aware how many laws there are upon the statute books
disabling our rights. When the Judges in the District of Columbia
were to decide who were to vote and who were not to vote, the
question arose who could be appointed officers of the city; and
it was found that there was a law that no one could be appointed
a judge of elections who had not paid a tax upon real estate in
the District of Columbia, a law which almost defeats all the work
which has been done during the canvas