ee again in this life, but whose
earnest words go with me every day, a constant source of
encouragement and of strength. It would be but justice to record
the names of all those who gave generous aid and sympathy in the
woman suffrage campaign of '67; brave pioneers they were, who had
learned loyalty to principle through many bitter experiences;
some of them had been friends and companions of brave old John
Brown, and, trained in the great Anti-Slavery struggle, filled
with the love of liberty, they knew how to stand for the right.
But their names are recorded on high in letters of living light,
and they little need our poor faltering testimony. "Their reward
is with them, and their reward is sure." To-day, looking back
over the years, Kansas is to me a memory of grand, rolling
prairies stretching far away; of fertile fields; of beautiful
osage orange hedges; of hospitable homes; of brave and earnest
women; kind and true men; and of some of the most dishonest
politicians the world has ever seen.

I went to Kansas, through an arrangement made by Lucy Stone with
leaders of the Republican party there, whereby they were to
furnish comfortable conveyance over the State, with a lady as
traveling companion, and also to arrange and preside over all the
meetings; these were to be Republican meetings in which it was
thought best that a woman should present the claims of the woman
suffrage amendment, which had been submitted to the vote of the
men of the State by a strongly Republican Legislature.

The Kansas Republicans so far complied with their part of this
arrangement that on my arrival, the 1st of July, I found
appointments made and thoroughly advertised for the whole of July
and August; two lectures for every week day, and a preaching
service for every Sunday. As it proved, these appointments were
at great distances from each other, often requiring a journey of
twenty, thirty, forty, and even fifty miles across a country
scarcely settled at all, to reach some little village where there
would be a school-house or some public building in which a
meeting could be held. All were eager to hear, and the entire
settlement would attend the lecture, thus giving an astonishingly
large audience in proportion to the size of the place.

The country was