little log school-house shake with their missiles; the taunts and
jeers of the opposition; all this is passed, but the great
principle of human rights which we advocated remains, commending
itself more and more to the favor of all good men, confirmed by
every year's experience, and destined at no distant day to find
expression in law.
Sincerely Yours, OLYMPIA BROWN.
The day before the election immense meetings were held in all the
chief cities. In Leavenworth Mr. Train spoke for two hours in Laing's
Hall, and then took the evening train for Atchison. Mrs. Stanton
entered the hall just as he left, and made only a short speech,
reserving herself for the evening, when, Daniel R. Anthony in the
chair, she made her final appeal to the voters of the State. She was
followed by several of the leading gentlemen in short speeches, fully
indorsing both amendments. The _Bulletin_, in speaking of the meeting,
said:
Laing's Hall was crowded to overflowing last evening to listen to
a discourse from Mrs. Stanton, on the main issues pending in this
State, and to be decided to-day. The speech of Mrs. Stanton was
mainly in behalf of female suffrage. Speeches were also made by
Col. J. C. Vaughan, Col. Jennison, Col. Moonlight, and Col.
Anthony. The best of feeling prevailed throughout.
Susan B. Anthony spoke to an equally large audience in Atchison, and
Olympia Brown to another in an adjoining town.
The morning of the election two spacious barouches containing the
several members of the Hutchinson family--John, his son Henry and
daughter Viola; with Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, Mrs. Daniel R. and
Mrs. J. Merritt Anthony, visited in succession the four polling booths
in Leavenworth and addressed the voters in short, earnest speeches as
to their duty as citizens. Mrs. Stanton made a special appeal to
Irishmen, quoting to them the lofty sentiments of Edmund Burke on
human liberty. She told them of visiting O'Connell in his own house,
and attending one of his great repeal meetings, of his eloquent speech
in the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, and his genial letters to
Lucretia Mott, in favor of woman's right to vote. After three cheers
for O'Connell, they shouted, "Go on, go on." The Hutchinsons then sang
their stirring ballad, "The good time coming." The reception at each
booth was respectful, and at the end of the speech or song there
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