nd about one-eighth by the color of their skin; and thus a large
majority have no voice in enacting or executing the laws they are
taxed to support and compelled to obey, with the same fidelity as the
more favored class, whose usurped prerogative it is to rule. Against
such outrages on the very name of republican freedom, your
memorialists do and must ever protest. And is not our protest
pre-eminently as just against the tyranny of "_taxation without
representation_," as was that thundered from Bunker Hill, when our
revolutionary fathers fired the shot that shook the world?

And your Memorialists especially remember, at this time, that our
country is still reeling under the shock of a terrible civil war, the
legitimate result and righteous retribution of the vilest slave system
ever suffered among men. And in restoring the foundations of our
nationality, your memorialists most respectfully and earnestly pray
that all discriminations on account of sex or race may be removed; and
that our Government may be republican in _fact_ as well as _form_; A
GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE, AND THE WHOLE PEOPLE; FOR THE PEOPLE, AND
THE WHOLE PEOPLE.

In behalf of the American Equal Rights Association,

THEODORE TILTON, }
FREDERICK DOUGLAS, } Vice-Presidents.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, }

LUCRETIA MOTT, President.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Secretary.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE KANSAS CAMPAIGN--1867.

The Battle Ground of Freedom--Campaign of 1867--Liberals did not
Stand by their Principles--Black Men Opposed to Woman
Suffrage--Republican Press and Party Untrue--Democrats in
Opposition--John Stuart Mill's Letters and Speeches Extensively
Circulated--Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone Opened the
Campaign--Rev. Olympia Brown Followed--60,000 Tracts
Distributed--Appeal Signed by Thirty-one Distinguished
Men--Letters from Helen E. Starrett, Susan E. Wattles, Dr. R. S.
Tenney, Lieut. Governor J. P. Root, Rev. Olympia Brown--The
Campaign closed by ex-Governor Robinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Susan B. Anthony, and the Hutchinson Family--Speeches and Songs
at the Polls in every Ward in Leavenworth Election Day--Both
Amendments lost--9,070 Votes for Woman Suffrage, 10,843 for Negro
Suffrage.

As Kansas was the historic ground where Liberty fought her first
victorious battles with Slavery, and consecrated that soil forever to
the freedom of the black race, so