I can not send you a telegraphic dispatch as you wish, for just
now there is a plot to get the Republican party to drop the word
"male," and also to agree to canvass _only_ for the word "white."
There is a call, signed by the Chairman of the State Central
Republican Committee; to meet at Topeka on the 15th, to pledge
the party to the canvass on that single issue. As soon as we saw
the call and the change of tone of some of the papers, we sent
letters to all those whom we had found true to principle, urging
them to be at Topeka and vote for both words. This effort of ours
the Central Committee know nothing of, and we hope they will be
defeated, as they will be sure to be surprised. So, till this
action of the Republicans is settled, we can affirm nothing.
Everywhere we go we have the largest and most enthusiastic
meetings, and any one of our audiences would give a majority for
woman suffrage. But the negroes are all against us. There has
just now left us an ignorant black preacher named Twine, who is
very confident that women ought not to vote. These men _ought not
to be allowed to vote before we do_, because they will be just so
much more dead weight to lift.

Mr. Frothingham's course of lectures, happily, is over. Were you
ever so cruelly hurt by any course of lectures before? "If it had
been an enemy I could have borne it." But for this man, wise,
educated, and good, who thinks he is our friend, to do just the
things that our worst enemies will be glad of, is the unkindest
cut of all. Ninety-nine pulpits out of every hundred have taught
that women should not meddle in politics; as large a proportion
of papers have done the same; and by every hearthstone the lesson
is repeated to the little girl; and when she has learned it, and
grows up, and does not throw away the teaching of a life time,
Mr. Frothingham accepts this _effect_ for a _cause_, and blames
the unhappy victim, when he should stand by her side, and with
all his power of persuasion win her away from her false teaching,
to accept the truth and the nobler life that comes with it. But,
thank God, the popular pulse is setting in the right direction.

We must see Wade, and Garfield, and Julian, and when Sumner
proposes, as he says he shall, to make negro suffrage universal,
_they_ must