le in his efforts, working early and late
for the good cause. Of the women of the State of Kansas who were
active, a large number of names might be given.[88] But Kansas
best remembers and most honors in the remembrance, those women
who left their comfortable and elegant homes on the Atlantic
slope, and with no hope of reward save the consciousness of
having worked for God and humanity, traveled over the then wild
prairies of Kansas in all sorts of rude vehicles, talking in
groves, school-houses, and cabins, eating and sleeping as
pioneers sleep and eat, for weeks and months, making the
beautiful rolling prairies, filled with fertile valleys and
flowery knolls, vocal with their eloquent, earnest appeals in
behalf of woman's rights and against woman's wrongs; and through
the vote carried for woman's wrongs the fervid, eloquent words
then uttered by woman's tongue, welling up as they did from noble
hearts heated to redness in the furnace of love for human
justice, left an influence which has steadily and surely
increased, and will thus continue until Kansas shall give woman
equal rights and privileges with man.

Sincerely yours, J. P. ROOT.

RACINE, WISCONSIN, _March 16, 1882_.

DEAR SUSAN:--You ask me to write an account of my experiences in
Kansas; with unquestioning obedience I attempt what you require,
although many records and documents are wanting which should have
been kept, had I anticipated your command. But when in Kansas, I
no more thought of appearing in history, than the butterfly
flitting from flower to flower thinks of being dried and put in a
museum.

I have never kept a diary, have never counted the number of miles
I have traveled, the meals eaten, calls made, pages written, or
words spoken. I have tried to do the pressing duty of each hour,
leaving the results and records to take care of themselves. You
will not, therefore, be surprised that I am unable to furnish
even the "round unvarnished tale," but must be content with
glimpses as memory, after the lapse of fourteen years, supplies
them.

I am glad to have an opportunity, through your valuable history,
of paying my respects to the good people whom I met in Kansas,
few of whom I shall ever s