have been sent to you for
entertainment during the convention."... Half disarmed by her
genial manner and frank, kindly face, I led the way into the house
and said I would have her stay to tea and then we would see what
farther arrangements could be made. While I was looking after
things she gained the affections of the babies; and seeing the door
of my sister's sick-room open, she went in and in a short time had
so won the heart and soothed instead of exciting the nervous
sufferer, entertaining her with accounts of the outside world, that
by the time tea was over I was ready to do anything if Miss Anthony
would only stay with us. And stay she did for over six weeks, and
we parted 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
de