f-defense to
fire their foreground. This is a glorious country, Mrs. S., and a
glorious people. If we succeed here, it will be the State of the
Future.

With kind regards, HENRY B. BLACKWELL.

P. S.--So you see we have the State Convention committed to the
right side, and I do believe we shall carry it. All the old
settlers are for it. It is only the later comers who say, "If I
were a black man I should not want the woman question hitched to
me." These men tell what their wives have done, and then ask,
shall such women be left without a vote? L. S.

D. R. ANTHONY'S HOUSE, LEAVENWORTH, }
_April 10, 1867_. }

DEAR MRS. STANTON:--We came here just in the nick of time. The
papers were laughing at "Sam Wood's Convention," the call for
which was in the papers with the names of Beecher, Tilton, Ben
Wade, Gratz Brown, E. C. Stanton, Anna Dickinson, Lucy Stone,
etc., as persons expected or invited to be at the convention. The
papers said: "This is one of Sam's shabbiest tricks. Not one of
these persons will be present, and he knows it," etc., etc. Our
arrival set a buzz going, and when I announced you and Susan and
Aunt Fanny for the fall, they began to say "they guessed the
thing would carry." Gov. Robinson said he could not go to the
Topeka Convention, for he had a lawsuit involving $1,000 that was
to come off that very day, but we talked the matter over with
him, showed him what a glorious hour it was for Kansas, etc.,
etc., and he soon concluded to get the suit put off and go to the
convention. Ex-Gov. Root, of Wyandotte, joined with him and us,
though he had not intended to go. We went to Topeka; and the day
and evening before the convention, pulled every wire and set
every honest trap. Gov. Robinson has a long head, and he arranged
the "platform" so shrewdly, carefully using the term "impartial,"
which he said meant right, and we must make them use it, so that
there would be no occasion for any other State Association. In
this previous meeting, the most prominent men of the State were
made officers of the permanent organization. When the platform
was read, with the names of the officers, and the morning's
discussion was over, everybody then