a thoroughly noble, good
fellow, and a hero. He is a short, rather thick set, somewhat
awkward, and "slouchy" man, extremely careless in his dress,
blunt and abrupt in his manner, with a queer inexpressive face,
little blue eyes which can look dull or flash fire or twinkle
with the wickedest fun. He is so witty, sarcastic, and cutting,
that he is a terrible foe, and will put the laugh even on his
best friends. The son of a Quaker mother, he held the baby while
his wife acted as one of the officers, and his mother another, in
a Woman's Rights Convention seventeen years ago. Wood has helped
off more runaway slaves than any man in Kansas. He has always
been _true_ both to the negro and the woman. But the negroes
dislike and distrust him because he has never allowed the word
white to be struck out, unless the word male should be struck out
also. He takes exactly Mrs. Stanton's ground, that the colored
men and women shall enter the kingdom _together_, if at all. So,
while he advocates both, he fully realizes the wider scope and
far greater grandeur of the battle for _woman_. Lucy and I like
Wood very much. We have seen a good deal of him, first at Topeka,
again at Cottonwood Falls, his home, and on the journey thence to
Council Grove and to this place. Our arrangements for conveyances
failed, and Wood with characteristic energy and at great personal
inconvenience brought us through himself. It is worth a journey
to Kansas to know him for he is an original and a genius. If he
should die next month I should consider the election lost. But if
he live, and we all in the East drop other work and spend
September and October in Kansas, we shall succeed. I am glad to
say that our friend D. R. Anthony is out for both propositions in
the _Leavenworth Bulletin_. But his sympathies are so especially
with the negro question that we must have Susan out here to
strengthen his hands. We must have Mrs. Stanton, Susan, Mrs.
Gage, and Anna Dickinson, this fall. Also Ben Wade and Carl
Schurz, if possible. We must also try to get 10,000 each of Mrs.
Stanton's address, of Lucy Stone's address, and of Mrs. Mills
article on the Enfranchisement of Women, printed for us by the
Hovey Fund.

Kansas is to be _the battle ground_ for 1867. _It must not be
allowed to fail._