were present. A permanent organization was effected, with
Governor S. J. Crawford as President; Lieutenant-Governor Green,
Vice-President; Rev. Lewis Bodwell and Miss Mary Paty, Recording
Secretaries; and S. N. Wood, Corresponding Secretary. A letter
was at once prepared and addressed to all the prominent men in
the State, asking them to aid in the canvass. Letters in reply
poured in from the gentlemen addressed, giving assurance of
sympathy and declaring themselves in favor of the movement. A
thorough canvass of the State was at once inaugurated. Lucy Stone
was invited and lectured in Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeka, and
Atchison, to crowded houses, giving the proceeds to the cause.

Hon. S. N. Wood gave his whole time to the canvass, speaking with
Lucy Stone and Mr. Blackwell in nearly all the towns in the
western and northern part of the State. Mrs. Stone and Mr.
Blackwell visited nearly every organized county. As we have said
before, there were no railroads, and it was at an immense expense
of bodily fatigue that they accomplished their journeys, often in
the rudest conveyances and exposed to the raw, blustering winds
of a Kansas spring. Their meetings, however, were "ovations." Men
and women everywhere were completely won by the gentle,
persuasive, earnest addresses of Lucy Stone, while their newly
aroused interest was informed and strengthened by the logical
arguments and irresistible facts of Mr. Blackwell.

The religious denominations in Kansas from the first gave their
countenance to the movement, and clergymen of all denominations
were found speaking in its favor. At Olathe, the Old School
Presbytery was in session at the time of Lucy Stone's meeting
there. It was an unheard-of occurrence that the body adjourned
its evening session to allow her to occupy the church. All the
members of the Presbytery who heard her were enthusiastic in her
praise. We remember a meeting in Topeka at which the Rev. Dr.
Ekin,[84] then pastor of the Old School Presbyterian church, very
effectively summed up in a public address all the arguments of
the opposition by relating the story of the Canadian Indian who,
when told of the greatness of England, and also that it was
governed by a queen, a woman, turned away with an incredulous
expression of contempt, ex