then new and public conveyances few, and the
Republicans having failed to furnish the stipulated carriage and
escort, the speaker was dependent almost entirely upon the people
in each little place for the means to pursue the journey. Many a
time some kind man, with a genuine chivalry worthy of the days of
knighthood, has left his half-mown field or his sorghum boiling
in the kettle, to escort the woman suffrage advocate to the next
appointment; and although the road often seemed long and perilous
and many an hour was spent in what appeared a hopeless endeavor
to find our way over the almost trackless prairie, yet somehow we
always came to the right place at last; and I scarcely recollect
an instance of failure to meet an appointment from July 1st to
Nov. 5th.

In those four months I traveled over the greater part of Kansas,
held two meetings every day, and the latter part of the time
three meetings every day, making in all between two and three
hundred speeches, averaging an hour in length; a fact that tends
to show that women can endure talk and travel at least, as well
as men; especially when we recollect how the Hon. Sidney Clark,
then candidate for Congress, canvassed, in the beautiful autumn
weather, a small portion of the State which I had traveled over
amid the burning heat of July and August; he spoke once a day
instead of twice; he rested on Sundays; he had no anxiety about
the means of travel, his conveyance being furnished at hand; he
was supported by a large constituency, and expected to be
rewarded by office and honors; yet with all these advantages, he
broke down in health and was obliged to give up a part of his
appointments, and the Republican papers said: "It was not
strange, as no human being could endure without loss of health
such constant speaking, with such long and tedious journeys as
Mr. Clark had undertaken."

It is deemed, in certain quarters, wicked heresy to complain of
or criticise the Republican party, that has done so much in
freeing the slaves and in bringing the country victoriously
through the war of the rebellion; but if there is to be any truth
in history we must set it down, to stand forever a lasting
disgrace to the party that in 1867, in Kansas, its leaders
selfishly and meanly defeated the woman s