ite a number of prominent
Republican men to declare themselves in favor of woman suffrage,
an issue which was voluntarily recommended by many speakers in
both Democratic and Greenback meetings. Gov. J. P. St. John is
now making himself heard in his temperance speeches in favor of
woman suffrage. The recent passage of the Prohibitory Amendment
is significant that our people are awake and ready to welcome the
greatest good to the greatest number, which means equal rights to
all at an early day.

R. S. TENNEY.

MARCH 14, 1882.

DEAR FRIENDS:--God bless the women that worked for woman's
suffrage in Kansas! Foremost among those who were residents of
the State was Mrs. C. I. H. Nichols, of Wyandotte, and to her,
more than all other Kansas women, was due the influence which
gave woman even the small recognition in the constitution under
which the State was admitted, above what is found in other State
constitutions of the nation; for this Mrs. Nichols labored with
the zeal and heroism born of a great noble heart, whose every
pulsation is for humanity in the elevation of woman to her proper
political as well as social position. It was largely through her
instrumentality that such God-ordained women as Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Olympia Brown, came to
Kansas as eloquent missionaries in the great work of attempting
to give the women of this State the legal right to vote with
their husbands, sons and brothers. And though, through the
opposition of unwise and prejudiced men, the desired majority for
woman's suffrage was not then obtained; the seed sown by these
self-sacrificing angels of humanity will yet bring forth most
glorious results. The efforts of the Hutchinson troupe of sweet
singers in this direction will not be forgotten. John, the
patriarch, with his bright son Henry and beautiful daughter
Viola, made a musical trio whose soul-stirring songs were only
excelled in purity of thought and delightful harmony of
execution, by their intense, whole-hearted desire that the cause
for which they prayed and sang with so much earnestness might be
crowned with success. Mr. Henry B. Blackwell, Lucy Stone's
husband, was indefatigab