les, much tempted, forbade. After the first vote, Judge
Sears called for a vote on his, the negro proposition, when about
one-half the house arose. Verily there was a great turning to the
Lord that day, and many would have been baptized, but there was
no water. When Mrs. Stanton has passed through Oscaloosa, her
fame having gone before her, we can count on a good majority for
Female Suffrage....
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OSCALOOSA, October 11, 1867.

SALINA, KANSAS, Sept. 12, 1867.

DEAR FRIEND:--We are getting along splendidly. Just the frame of
a Methodist church with sidings and roof, and rough cotton-wood
boards for seats, was our meeting place last night here; and a
perfect jam it was, with men crowded outside at all the windows.
Two very brave young Kentuckian sprigs of the law had the courage
to argue or present sophistry on the other side. The meeting
continued until eleven o'clock. To-day we go to Ellsworth, the
very last trading post on the frontier. A car load of wounded
soldiers went East on the train this morning; but the fight was a
few miles West of Ellsworth. No Indians venture to that point.

Our tracts gave out at Solomon, and the Topeka people failed to
fill my telegraphic order to send package here. It is enough to
exhaust the patience of any "Job" that men are so wanting in
promptness. Our tracts do more than half the battle; reading
matter is so very scarce that everybody clutches at a book of any
kind. If only reformers would supply this demand with the right
and the true--come in and occupy the field at the beginning--they
might mould these new settlements. But instead they wait until
everything is fixed, and the comforts and luxuries obtainable,
and then come to find the ground preoccupied.

Send 2,000 of Curtis' speeches, 2,000 of Phillips', 2,000 of
Beecher's, and 1,000 of each of the others, and then fill the
boxes with the reports of our last convention; they are the best
in the main because they have everybody's speeches together.

S. B. A.

HOME OF EX-GOV. ROBINSON,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, Sept. 15, 1867.

I rejoice