nths in
all parts of the State. Kansas has furnished no part of the fund
which makes her to-morrow the envy of the world. (Cheers.) For
the benefit of the Association I have promised on my return from
Omaha to make seven speeches in the largest cities; the entire
proceeds to be given to this grand cause--I paying my own
expenses as in this campaign. (Loud cheers for Train.) We
commence at St. Louis about the 20th, thence to Chicago,
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston and New York.
(Cheers.) The burden of my thought will be the future of America;
my mission, with the aid of women, to reconstruct the country
and save the nation. (Cheers.) To-morrow our amendment will pass
with a startling majority. The other two will be lost.
(Applause.) The negro can wait and go to school. And as all are
now loyal, the war over, and no rebels exist, no American in this
land must be marked by the stain of attainder or impeachment.
(Cheers.) No so-called rebel must be disfranchised. I represent
the people, and they speak to-morrow in Kansas, emancipating
woman, (loud cheers), and declaring that no Hungary, no Poland,
no Venice, no Ireland--crushed and disheartened--shall exist in
New America. (Loud cheers.)

But Kansas being republican by a large majority, there was no chance
of victory. For although the women were supported by some of the best
men in the State, such as Gov. Crawford, Ex-Gov. Robinson, United
States Senators Pomeroy and Ross, and a few of the ablest editors, the
opposition was too strong to be conquered. With both parties, the
press, the pulpit and faithless liberals as opponents, the hopes of
the advocates of woman suffrage began to falter before the election.

The action of the Michigan Commission, in refusing to submit a similar
amendment to her people, and the adverse report of Mr. Greeley in the
Constitutional Convention of New York, had also their depressing
influence. Nevertheless, when election day came, the vote was nearly
equal for both propositions. With all the enginery of the controlling
party negro suffrage had a little over 10,000 votes, while woman
suffrage without press or party, friends or politicians, had 9,000 and
some over. And this vote for woman's enfranchisement represented the
best elements in the State, men of character and conscience, who
believed in social order and good government.