Mrs. Stanton and I start for Kansas Wednesday evening, stopping at Rochester just to look at my mother and my dear sister, sick so long, and I devoting scarce an hour to her the whole year.  How will the gods make up my record on home affections?

You see our little trust fund—­$1,800—­of Jackson money is wrenched from us.  The Hovey Committee gave us our last dollar in May, to balance last year’s work, and I am responsible for stereotyping and printing the tracts, for the New York office expenses, and for Mrs. Stanton and myself in Kansas, in all not less than $2,000.  Not one of the friends wants the Kansas work to go undone, and to do it, both tracts and lecturers must be sent out.  We need money as never before.  I have to take from my lean hundreds, that never dreamed of reaching thousands, to pay our travelling expenses.  It takes $50 each for bare railroad tickets.  We are advertised to speak every day—­Sundays not excepted—­from September 2, one week from today, to November 6.  What an awful undertaking it looks to me, for I know Kansas possibilities in fare, lodging and travelling.  I never was so nearly driven to desperation—­so much waiting to be done, and not a penny but in hope and trust.  Oh, if somebody else could go and I stay here, I could raise the money; but there is no one and I must go.  We must not lose Kansas now, at least not from lack of work done according to our best ability.

Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton left New York August 28, 1867.  It was necessary then to change cars several times to reach Atchison, their first appointment, and the trains being late they missed connections and were finally stranded at Macon City over Sunday.  They found that while Mr. Wood had made out a very elaborate plan for their meetings and had posters printed for each place, these still remained piled up in the printing office.  After making a two weeks’ tour of the principal towns with Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony saw that an entire new program was necessary, that the meetings must be better advertised and there must be a central distributing point for tracts, etc., so she stationed herself at Lawrence.  Senators Pomeroy and Ross gave the full use of their “franking” privilege and the former contributed $50 besides.

The Republicans called a mass meeting at Lawrence, September 5, of citizens from all parts of the State, “for consultation concerning the best method for defeating the proposition to strike the word ‘male’ from the Constitution of Kansas, and for arranging a canvass of the State in opposition to this amendment.”  A newspaper account said: 

On motion of Judge G. W. Smith, Messrs. T. C. Sears, Rev. S. E. McBurney and C. V. Eskridge were appointed a committee on resolutions, and reported the following, which were unanimously adopted: 

    Resolved, That we recognize the doctrine of manhood suffrage as a
    principle of the Republican party, supported by reason, experience
    and justice.