claiming, "Ugh! Squaw!" The effect upon
the audience was tremendous. At the same time letters of cheer
and encouragement were pouring in from prominent workers all over
the country. John Stuart Mill, of England, wrote to Hon. S. N.
Wood full of hope and interest for the success of the movement:

BLACKHEATH PARK, KENT, ENGLAND, _June 2, 1867_.

DEAR SIR: Being one who takes as deep and as continuous an
interest in the political, moral, and social progress of the
United States as if he were himself an American citizen, I hope I
shall not be intrusive if I express to you as the executive organ
of the Impartial Suffrage Association, the deep joy I felt on
learning that both branches of the Legislature of Kansas had, by
large majorities, proposed for the approval of your citizens an
amendment to your constitution, abolishing the unjust political
privileges of sex at one and the same stroke with the kindred
privilege of color. We are accustomed to see Kansas foremost in
the struggle for the equal claims of all human beings to freedom
and citizenship. I shall never forget with what profound interest
I and others who felt with me watched every incident of the
preliminary civil war in which your noble State, then only a
Territory, preceded the great nation of which it is a part, in
shedding its blood to arrest the extension of slavery.

Kansas was the herald and protagonist of the memorable contest,
which at the cost of so many heroic lives, has admitted the
African race to the blessings of freedom and education, and she
is now taking the same advanced position in the peaceful but
equally important contest which, by relieving half the human race
from artificial disabilities belonging to the ideas of a past
age, will give a new impulse and improved character to the career
of social and moral progress now opening for mankind. If your
citizens, next November, give effect to the enlightened views of
your Legislature, history will remember that one of the youngest
States in the civilized world has been the first to adopt a
measure of liberation destined to extend all over the earth, and
to be looked back to (as is my fixed conviction) as one of the
most fertile in beneficial consequences of all the improvements
yet effected in human af