MOUND CITY, _December 30, 1881_.

MY DEAR MISS ANTHONY:--Here, as in New York, the first in the
woman suffrage cause were those who had been the most earnest
workers for freedom. They had come to Kansas to prevent its being
made a slave State. The most the women could do was to bear their
privations patiently, such as living in a tent in a log cabin,
without any floor all winter, or in a cabin ten feet square, and
cooking out of doors by the side of a log, giving up their beds
to the sick, and being ready, night or day, to feed the men who
were running for their lives. Then there was the ever present
fear that their husbands would be shot. The most obnoxious had a
price set upon their heads. A few years ago a man said: "I could
have got $1,000 once for shooting Wattles, and I wish now I had
done it." When in Ohio, our house was often the temporary home of
the hunted slave; but in Kansas it was the _white_ man who ran
from our door to the woods because he saw strangers coming.

After the question of a free State seemed settled, we who had
thought and talked on woman's rights before we came to Kansas,
concluded that now was the woman's hour. We determined to strive
to obtain Constitutional rights, as they would be more secure
than Legislative enactments. On the 13th of February, 1858, we
organized the Moneka Woman's Rights Society. There were only
twelve of us, but we went to work circulating petitions and
writing to every one in the Territory whom we thought would aid
us. Our number was afterwards increased to forty; fourteen of
them were men. We sent petitions to Territorial Legislatures,
Constitutional Conventions, State Legislatures, and Congress.
Many of the leading men were advocates of women's rights.
Governor Robinson, S. N. Wood, and Erastus Heath, with their
wives, were constant and efficient workers. Mrs. Robinson wrote a
book on "Life in Kansas." "Allibone's Dictionary of Authors"
says: "Mrs. Robinson is an accomplished lady, the wife of
Governor Robinson. She possessed the knowledge of events and
literary skill necessary to produce an interesting and
trustworthy book, and one which will continue to have a permanent
value. The women of Kansas suffered more than the men, and were
not less heroic. Their names are