women. (Loud cheers from Blunt's own audience of anti-women men.)
As an advertisement to this beautiful State, it is worth untold
millions.
Kansas will win the world's applause,
As the sole champion of woman's cause.
So light the bonfires! Have the flags unfurled,
To the Banner State of all the World!
(Loud cheers.)
No, General, these women are no foreign emissaries. They came
expecting support. They thought the republicans honest. They
forgot that the democrats alone were their friends. (Applause.)
They forgot that it was the Republican party that publicly
insulted them in Congress. That it was Charles Sumner who wished
to insert the word "male" in the amendment of the Federal
Constitution two years ago, when the old Constitution, by having
neither male nor female, had left it an open question. No, Mrs.
Cady Stanton, Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Lucy Stone, and Miss
Olympia Brown are the "foreign emissaries" that will alone have
the credit of emancipating women in Kansas. Your trimming
politicians left them in the lurch. Not one of you was honest.
(Applause.) Even those who assumed to be their friends by saying
nothing on the woman, and everything on the negro, are worse than
you and Kalloch. (Applause.) Mr. Kalloch and Leggett and Sears
have helped the woman's cause by opposing it, (cheers,) while the
milk-and-water republican committee and speakers and press have
damaged woman by their sneaking, cowardly way of advocacy.
(That's so.)
Mr. TRAIN at Leavenworth, the day before the election: "A great
empire, and little minds go ill together," said Lord Bacon. "The
sober second thought of the people," said Van Buren, "is never
wrong, and always efficient." To-morrow it will be shown by
voting for our mother and our sister. (Loud applause.) Never
before were so many rats fleeing from a sinking ship. (Laughter.)
A few staunch men will receive their reward. Falsehood passes
away. Truth is eternal. (Applause.) The woman suffrage
association wants a few thousand dollars to pay off this
expensive canvass. Miss Anthony has distributed two thousand
pounds weight of tracts and pamphlets. (Applause.) Mrs. Stanton,
Miss Olympia Brown and Mrs. Lucy Stone, have been for mo
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