ic over her speech on "President
Johnson's Mississippi Reconstruction Proclamation." The Republicans
insisted that she should put her notes in shape for publication, but
urged her to leave out the paragraph on woman suffrage.[34]

The other speakers were Sidney Clark, M.C., and a professor from
Lawrence University. They were entertained by a prominent official who
had just built a new house, the upper story of which was unfinished. It
was divided into three rooms by hanging up army blankets, and each of
the orators was assigned to one of these apartments. Miss Anthony was
so exhausted from the long stage-ride, the speaking and the heat, that
she scarcely could get ready for bed, but no sooner had she touched the
pillow than she was assailed by a species of animals noted for the
welcome they extended to travellers in the early history of Kansas. Her
dilemma was excruciating. Should she lie still and be eaten alive, or
should she get up, strike a light and probably rouse the honorable
gentlemen on the other side of the army blankets? A few minutes decided
the question; she slipped out of bed, lighted her tallow dip and
reconnoitered. Then she blew out her light, and sat by the window till
morning.

She spoke at Lawrence in the Unitarian and the Congregational churches,
and August 1, the thirty-first anniversary of England's emancipation of
the slaves in the West Indies, she addressed an immense audience in a
grove near Leavenworth. She discussed the changed condition of the
colored people and their new rights and duties, and called their
attention to the fact that not one of the prominent politicians
advertised was there; pointed out that if they possessed the ballot and
could vote these men into or out of office, all would be eager for an
opportunity to address them; and then drew a parallel between their
political condition and that of women. At this time she received a
second intimation of what was to come, when prominent Republicans
called upon her and insisted that hereafter she should not bring the
question of woman's rights into her speeches on behalf of the negro.

A few days afterwards Miss Anthony was seated in her brother's office
reading the papers when she learned to her amazement that several
resolutions had been offered in the House of Representatives
sanctioning disfranchisement on account of sex. Up to this time the
Constitution of the United States never had been desecrated by the word
"male," and she