B. ANTHONY:

You will be glad to know that Lucy and I are going over the
length and breadth of this State speaking every day, and
sometimes twice, journeying from twenty-five to forty miles
daily, sometimes in a carriage and sometimes in an open wagon,
with or without springs. We climb hills and dash down ravines,
ford creeks, and ferry over rivers, rattle across limestone
ledges, struggle through muddy bottoms, fight the high winds on
the high rolling upland prairies, and address the most
astonishing (and astonished) audiences in the most extraordinary
places. To-night it may be a log school house, to-morrow a stone
church; next day a store with planks for seats, and in one place,
if it had not rained, we should have held forth in an unfinished
court house, with only four stone walls but no roof whatever.

The people are a queer mixture of roughness and intelligence,
recklessness, and conservatism. One swears at women who want to
wear the breeches; another wonders whether we ever heard of a
fellow named Paul; a third is not going to put women on an
equality with niggers. One woman told Lucy that no decent woman
would be running over the country talking nigger and woman. Her
brother told Lucy that "he had had a woman who was under the sod,
but that if she had ever said she wanted to vote he would have
pounded her to death!"

The fact is, however, that we have on our side all the shrewdest
politicians and all the best class of men and women in this
State. Our meetings are doing much towards organizing and
concentrating public sentiment in our favor, and the papers are
beginning to show front in our favor. We fought and won a pitched
battle at Topeka in the convention, and have possession of the
machine. By the time we get through with the proposed series of
meetings, it will be about the 20th of May, if Lucy's voice and
strength hold out. The scenery of this State is lovely. In summer
it must be very fine indeed, especially in this Western section
the valleys are beautiful, and the bluffs quite bold and
romantic.

I think we shall probably succeed in Kansas next fall if the
State is thoroughly canvassed, not else. We are fortunate in
having Col. Sam N. Wood as an organizer and worker. We owe
everything to Wood, and he is really