ich she assumed to
carry on the campaign! I felt so agonized for her that on the very day
of election I rushed to the bank and sent her $100. We must not leave
her to carry it alone, after all her brave work. I have written a dozen
letters to friends asking them to give her assistance. I feel like a
lion champing the bars of his cage, shut up here digging and delving
among the records of the past when I long to be out doing the work of
the present." In a letter received from Senator Palmer at this time he
says:

I fully sympathize with your regret and chagrin over the reverse in
Oregon but hardly with your conclusion, viz., that "the women
should stop asking legislatures to submit this question to the
electors, to have it killed by the majority, made up of ignorance
and whiskey, native and foreign, and all go to Congress for
success," etc. It seems to me that nothing is to be lost and much
to be gained by local discussions and temporary defeats. You know
in 1850 Webster, in his unfortunate Revere House speech,
stigmatized the anti-slavery movement as "a rub-a-dub agitation,"
and Wendell Phillips closed his masterly philippic thereon with
what was accepted as a motto: Agitate! Agitate!! Agitate!!! Another
decade of that rub-a-dub agitation sufficed to divide the continent
in a political earthquake and from out the chasm the negro emerged
to citizenship. It may still require years to educate a majority of
our women to demand the franchise and a majority of our men or
their representatives in Congress and the legislatures, to proclaim
it, but that the way leads through constant agitation I make no
doubt. The still pool casts nothing to shore.

[Illustration: Autograph: "With high personal esteem I have the honor to
be, Very truly yours, T W Palmer"]

She watches events across the water and writes on July 7: "Well, the
House of Lords is today discussing whether 2,000,000 farm laborers shall
have the ballot placed in their hands, while the half-million, more or
less, women who employ them are left without it. What an outrage that
Mr. Gladstone refused to allow Mr. Woodall's amendment to his bill to be
at least voted upon! He applied the party whip and made voting for the
woman suffrage amendment disloyalty to the government, and over one
hundred Liberals, who had previously declared themselves in favor of
women's sharing in this new