from her as from a beloved and helpful friend.  I found afterwards that in the same way she made the most ardent friends wherever she became personally known.

The physical discomforts could have been borne without a murmur, but it was the treachery of friends, both East and West, which brought the discouragement and heart-sickness.  One of the active opponents who canvassed the State was Charles Langston, the negro orator, whose brother John M. had met with much kindness from Miss Anthony and her family before the war.  When one considers how these women had spent the best part of their lives in working for the freedom of the negro, their humiliation can be imagined at seeing educated colored men laboring with might and main to prevent white women from obtaining the same privileges which they were asking for themselves.  It was a bitter dose and one which women have been compelled to take in every State where a campaign for woman suffrage has been made.

The Hutchinsons—­John, his son Henry and lovely daughter Viola—­were giving a series of concerts, travelling in a handsome carriage drawn by a span of white horses.  As they had one vacant seat, they were carrying Rev. Olympia Brown, a talented Universalist minister from Massachusetts, who had been canvassing the State for several months, and she spoke for suffrage while they sang for both the negro and woman.  Hon. Charles Robinson, the first Free State governor of Kansas, volunteered to take Mrs. Stanton in his carriage and pay all expenses.  Their hard trip killed a pair of mules and a pair of Indian ponies.  Miss Anthony directed affairs from her post at Lawrence and made herculean efforts to raise money for the campaign, which thus far was dependent on the collections at the meetings.  There was scarcely a hope of victory.

On the 7th of October came a telegram from George Francis Train, who was then at Omaha, largely interested in the Union Pacific railroad.  He had been invited by the secretary and other members of the St. Louis Suffrage Association to go to Kansas and help in the woman’s campaign.  Accordingly he telegraphed that if the committee wanted him he was ready, would pay his own expenses and win every Democratic vote.  Miss Anthony never had seen Mr. Train; she merely knew of him as very wealthy and eccentric.  The Republicans not only had forsaken the women but were waging open war upon them.  The sole hope of carrying the amendment was by adding enough Democratic votes to those of Republicans who would not obey their party orders to vote against it.  Every member of the woman suffrage committee who could be communicated with—­Rev. and Mrs. Starrett, Rev. John S. Brown and daughter Sarah, Judge Thatcher and others—­said that Mr. Train was an eloquent speaker and advised that he be invited, so the following telegram was sent:  “Come to Kansas and stump the State for equal rights and woman suffrage.  The people want you, the women want you.  S. N. Wood, M. W. Reynolds, Charles Robinson, Mrs. J. H. Lane, E. Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony.”