The politicians here, except Wood and Robinson, are generally "on
the fence." But they dare not oppose us openly. And the
Democratic leaders are quite disposed to take us up. If the
Republicans come out against us the Democrats will take us up. Do
not let anything prevent your being here September 1 _for the
campaign_, which will end in November. There will be a big fight
and a great excitement. After the fight is over Mrs. Stanton will
never have _use_ for _notes_ or _written_ speeches any more.

Yours truly, HENRY B. BLACKWELL.

FORT SCOTT, _May 1, 1867_.

DEAR SUSAN:

I have just this moment read your letter, and received the
tracts; the "testimonies" I mean. We took 250 pounds of tracts
with us, and we have sowed them thick; and Susan, the crop will
be impartial suffrage in the fall. It will carry, beyond a doubt,
in this State. Now, as I can not be in New York next week, I want
you to see Aunt Fanny and Anna Dickinson, and get them pledged to
come here in the fall. We will raise the pay somehow. You and
Mrs. Stanton will come, of course. I wish Mrs. Harper to come. I
don't know if she is in New York; please tell her I got her
letter, and will either see or correspond with her when I get
home. There is no time to write here. We ride all day, and
lecture every night, and sometimes at noon too. So there is time
for nothing else. I am sorry there is no one to help you, Susan,
in New York. I always thought that when this hour of our bitter
need come--this darkest hour before the dawn--Mr. Higginson would
bring his beautiful soul and his fine, clear intellect to draw
all women to his side; but if it is possible for him to be
satisfied at _such_ an hour with writing the best literary
essays, it is because the power to help us has gone from him. The
old lark moves her nest only when the farmer prepares to cut his
grass himself. This will be the way with us; as to the
_Standard_, I don't count upon it at all. Even if you get it, the
circulation is so limited that it amounts almost to nothing. I
have not seen a copy in all Kansas. But the _Tribune_ and
_Independent_ alone could, if they would urge _universal_
suffrage, as they do negro suffrage, carry this whole nation up