terms, time, and subject." Lucy replied: "Will lecture Saturday
evening; subject, 'Impartial Suffrage'; terms, one hundred
dollars, payable to Kansas State Impartial Suffrage Association."
The prompt reply was: "We accept your terms." Gen. Larimer, of
Leavenworth, went down next day to try to arrange a similar
lyceum meeting there. In the afternoon came a dispatch from D. R.
Anthony, saying: "Meeting arranged for Tuesday night." This is
especially good, because we were informed that he had somewhat
favored dropping the woman, but whether this was so or not, he
will now be all right as befits the brother of Susan B. Anthony.

We are announced to speak every night but Sundays from April 7 to
May 5 inclusive. We shall have to travel from twenty to forty
miles per day. If our voices and health hold out, Col. Wood says
the State is safe. We had a rousing convention--three
sessions--at Topeka, and a crowded meeting the night following.
We find a very strong feeling against Col. S. N. Wood among
politicians, but they all respect and dread him. He has warmer
friends and bitterer enemies than almost any man in the State.
But he is true as steel. My judgment of men is rarely deceived,
and I pronounce S. N. Wood a great man and a political genius.
Gov. Robinson is a masterly tactician, cool, wary, cautious,
decided, and brave as a lion. These two men alone would suffice
to save Kansas. But when you add the other good and true men who
are already pledged, and the influences which have been combined,
I think you will see next fall an avalanche vote--"the caving in
of that mighty sandbank" your husband once predicted on a similar
occasion.

Now, Mrs. Stanton, you and Susan and Fred. Douglass must come to
this State early next September; you must come prepared to make
_sixty speeches_ each. You must leave your notes _behind you_.
These people won't have written sermons. And you don't want
notes. You are a natural orator, and these people will give you
inspiration! Everything has conspired to help us in this State.
Gov. Robinson and Sam. Wood have quietly set a ball in motion
which nobody in Kansas is now strong enough to stop. Politicians'
hair here is fairly on end. But the fire is in the prairie behind
them, and they are getting out their matches in sel