excitement, plunging from one trouble into another so fast that
we have never had a breathing-spell, and we need, more than any
other people on the globe, immunity from disturbing experiments
on novel questions of doubtful expediency. We can not afford to
risk our future prosperity and happiness in making an innovation
so questionable. We want peace, and must have it. Let
Massachusetts or New York, or some older State, therefore, try
this nauseating dose. If it does not kill them, or if it proves
healthful and beneficial, we guarantee that Kansas will not be
long in swallowing it. But the stomach of our State, if we may be
permitted to use the expression, is, as yet, too tender and
febrific to allow such a fearful deglutition.

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REMINISCENCES BY HELEN EKIN STARRETT.

After the first Constitutional Convention in which Mrs. C. I. H.
Nichols did such valuable service for the cause of woman, the
question of woman suffrage in some shape or other was introduced
into every succeeding Legislature. In January, 1867, the
Legislature met at Topeka. Immediately upon the organization of
the Senate on the 9th, Hon. B. F. Simpson of Miami Co.,
introduced an amendment to strike the word "white" from the
suffrage clause of the State Constitution. Hon. S. N. Wood,
Senator from Chase Co., within five minutes introduced a
resolution to strike the word "male" from the same clause. This
resolution was made the special order for Thursday the 10th, when
it passed the Senate by a vote of nineteen to five. Of the five
noes, four were Republicans, the other a Democrat. Thus Mr. Wood,
although he started second, got ahead in the passing of his
resolution. The resolution of Hon. B. F. Simpson was referred to
the committee of the whole. When it came up Hon. S. N. Wood moved
to amend by also striking out the word "male," and in this shape
it passed.

The House amended by striking out the amendment of Mr. Wood. The
Senate, however, insisted on its re-instatement; the Democrats
and a majority of the Republicans standing by Mr. Wood. The fight
continued for over a month. The question came up in all stages
and shapes from the House; but Mr. Wood was always ready for them
with his woman suffrage amendment, and the Senate stood