petitions from there. So they have
been at the Legislature, like the heroes they really are, and it
is not possible for the husbands of such women to back out,
though they have sad lack of principle and a terrible desire for
office.

Yours, L. S.

JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS, _April 20_.

DEAR MRS. STANTON:

We have had one letter from you, and have written you twice.
To-day I inclose an article by Col. Wood, which is so capital
that it ought to be printed. I wish you would take it to Tilton
(not Oliver), and if he says he will publish it, let him have it;
but if he hesitates, send it at once to the _Chicago Republic_,
and ask them to mark the article in some of their exchanges.
Perhaps the _Northern Methodist_, _The Banner of Light_, and the
_Liberal Christian_ would insert it. I shall not be back to the
May meeting; indeed, it would be better if we could stay till
June 1st, and go all along the Northern tier of counties. I think
this State will be right at the fall election. The _Independent_
is taken in many families here, and they are getting right on the
question of impartial suffrage. But there will have to be a great
deal of work to carry the State. We have large, good meetings
everywhere. If the _Independent_ would take up this question, and
every week write for it, as it does for the negro, that paper
alone could save this State; and with this, all the others.

What a pity it does not see the path that would leave it with
more than Revolutionary honors! I am thankful beyond expression
for what it does, but I am pained for what it _might do_. With
its 75,000 subscribers, and five times that number of readers,
what can the poor little _Standard_ do for us, compared with
that? I shall try and write a letter to the convention. May
strike the true note! I hope not a man will be asked to speak at
the convention. If they volunteer very well, but I have been for
the last time on my knees to Phillips or Higginson, or any of
them. If they help now, they should ask us, and not we them. Is
Susan with you?

L. S.

JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS, _April 21, 1867_.

DEAR FRIENDS, E. C. STANTON AND SUSAN