Blackwell Family Lucy Stone 1867 Blackwell, Henry BBox 299 PO. NewYork July 23/61 Dear Lucy No news from you & Alice yet! Of course, as you expected me to be at Green Pond, you would not write & I dont expect a letter at present. - But when you get this, write - only half a dozen words will suffice - say merely - "Alice is well - I am well" - Do this, twice a week if you have a chance. Yesterday, was a terrible day in New York. The bad news, grossly exaggerated, kept coming in & hundreds surrounded the bulletin boards at all the offices - I rejoice to say that Mr Haskell & Mr Judd have both had despatches from their sons "I am safe" - I send you papers today - the loss seems to have been about 500 to 1000 men & some very valuable cannons worth even more to us than the men - But it was a disgraceful panic & if the enemy had only hadthe sense and courage they would have driven the whole army into the Potomac - Love to all Harry P.S. I spent Sunday quietly at home, Saturday night & Monday night I took tea at Mothers - I have slept at home every night since you left - & usually take my breakfasts in NewYork (coffee & muffins 12./2 cts) my dinner at home & my tea wherever I happen to be - The cat is hungry & friendly Tell little Alice that the squash vines are growing so fast that they are running over almost everything in the garden - that the tomatoes are getting as large as her mug and that papa sleeps alone in Mama's bed - [*Love to Clara when you see her - The Baptists are all well - Poor Mrs Tompkins died day before yesterday & was buried yesterday afternoon - I expect to go to Green Pond next Saturday. I shall meet Mrs. Shefford & go with her to Milburn early Thursday morning -*] [*Notice filled in and tacked up by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell when they spoke in Kansas 1869*] WOMAN SUFFRAGE! CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. LUCY STONE, AND HENRY B. BLACKWELL, OF BOSTON Will speak in at the At 7:30 P.M. Admission, - Free. COME ONE! COME ALL!!Office of State Impartial Suffrage Association, Topeka, October 28, 1867. TO THE FRIENDS OF IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE: Below is a circular addressed to you by some of the best women in the State. We urge upon you to carry out the views therein expressed. A majority of the people of Kansas are in our favor. But organization is essential to success. The friends of Impartial Suffrage, and especially the Ladies who desire to obtain the rights of American citizens should be at the polls all day in every voting precinct in the State, to request every voter to cast his ballot for the amendments. Tickets in favor of Impartial Suffrage, printed with blanks to be filled up by the voters with the names of the candidates of their choice, have been forwarded to every Post-master in the State and to reliable friends in every County for distribution, and can be had upon application to them. If such tickets are not to be had, let the ladies provide themselves with tickets of every kind which are printed for all the amendments, so as not to favor any particular candidate. Every lady should be provided with a pencil to enable voters to fill up the tickets readily. If only two or three ladies will be at every poll, all day, with tickets for Impartial Suffrage, our success is certain. Let every friend of the cause see that the ladies and the tickets are at the polls on the 5th day of November, 1867. S. J. CRAWFORD, Chairman State Impartial Suffrage Association. Kansas, Oct. 28, 1867. WOMEN OF KANSAS! The time for Discussion is past, the day for Action has come. Let every Woman who values her political rights, and is interested in the welfare of her country, procure tickets in favor of Impartial Suffrage and spend all day at the polls. Earnestly and respectfully request every man to vote for the amendment extending suffrage to Woman. Give one day to the elevation of our sex, the welfare of Kansas and the good of Mankind. Appeal frankly to the justice and chivalry of the men of Kansas and our cause will carry the State by an overwhelming majority. Mrs. S. J. CRAWFORD, Topeka. " E. Ekin, " " E. G. ROSS, Lawrence. " CHAS. ROBINSON, " " D. P. MITCHELL, Leavenworth. " WM. LARIMER, jr " " MARTIN GAYLORD, Atchison. " PARDEE BUTLER, " " SOL. MILLER, White Cloud. " FRANK DRENNING, Wathena, " L. C. PRESTON, Seneca. " J. C. HEBBARD, " " R. B. TAYLOR, Wyandotte. " J. P. ROOT, " " CHAS. PARKER, Irving. Mrs. C. E. GAYLORD, Irving. " S. D. HOUSTON, Junction City. " R. McBRATNEY, " " J. H. PILLSBURY, Manhattan. " JOHN PIPHER, " " JUDGE WATSON, Emporia. " H. B. NORTON, " Miss NELLIE PLUMB, " Mrs. JAS. ROGERS, Burlingame. " P. C. SCHUYLER, " " JOHN T. BURRIS, Olathe. " W. W. UPDEGRAFF, Osawatomie. " W. M. MARTINDALE, Eureka. " R. W. JENKINS, Vienna. " R. S. HICK, Louisville. Mrs. JOEL MOODY, Mound City. " AUGUSTUS WATTLES, " " CAPT. WHITE, Fort Scott. " WATSON STEWART, Humboldt. " S. S. PROUTY, Burlington. " C. K. Gilchrist, Oskaloosa. " ELIHU COFFIN, Leroy. " JUDGE GRAVES, Neosho Falls. " S. N. WOOD, Cottonwood Falls. " O. H. DRINKWATER, Cedar Point. " J. P. MATHER, Council Grove. " C. C. COLUMBIA, " " C. B. LINES, Waubansee. " Mrs. OLNEY, Garnett. " W. N. HANBY, " And Two Hundred others. Lucy Stone 6 clock Park Row. Friday Oct 12/67 Dear Mary I enclose the autograph of Clarke. but I would not show it unless he denies it. if S. B. J. pushes to know about funds, tell her we paid a good deal from our private money - and that Phillip is willing we should draw from the [??ch??] fund, so much as we will give our personal guarantee for. I am sorry you have such a melancholy day to tide. And they will only see houses, when she [*I have enjoyed a [lyc?] lecture in Brooklyn Dec. 26 and to see the pro [?] - [?] off - Love to Mrs [?] *]wears the [Jea?], and yellow leaf - as soon as you left the house, Alice came, and gave me a large kiss and hug, without speaking a word - just to show that she felt with me, our common loss, is your absence. poor little soul! Take good care of your self, dearly beloved. Bryant writes that he has met the least objection to our use of his letter - good! I find a letter asking for one tract, and another asking for two, each enclosing 10 cts. That is about the [cost?] of [business?] hereSunday Oct. 13 - 1867 Lucy Stone to HBB Our Chamber Dear Harry I suppose you are in St. Louis, today. I hope it is as fine there, as it is here, where the day is half of cloud, and half of shine. Sam has been in this morning, and read pleasant letters from Emily and Geo. who promises to do what he can about beet sugar - The dates were Sept. 18 They were in [Florence?]. Geo. in a hurry, and Emily revelling, in the rich old galleries of statuary and painting - Bryant says, in a pleasant note, that he has not the least objection to the use of his letter. so it is going into typein the place of Pierponts testimony - McDonald & co. are printing five thousand "Shall Women Vote"? Horace Greely has sent me a letter, which is in answer to mine asking him to print the address of the Women of Kansas. in the weekly and semi weekly Tribune - The Standard this week, quotes a letter from Greely, from the Pall Mall Gazette - in which he takes the ground that the home, and the vote for women don't agree - I'll send it to you Jerrington writes that the has sent 90 pages of Shallock's reported trial, to Miller, & that he hopes it will be with the $13, which it has cost, and asks, for the $8 due him. says he is afraid it will not stop the fellows, foul mouth - Collyer, writes a very friendly letter, and says he will preach such a sermon as I ask, and take the collection too - Yesterdays Tribune, has a report of the social science association meeting, held in Boston with a very good editorial calling attention to it, in which every thing we need except the ballott is urged for us - I'll send that too - I have two characteristic letters from Susan, for me. she gives us a cuff after this fashion - "I fear your release of Parkeris "penny wise, and pound poor" - He surely has brought us a good deal of money, and the work he does, pays richly" - I [s..t] that rich, after her urgent solicitation that we should hurry from the Vineyard, because Parker could not stay in the office, and after Parker himself told us and Patton that he must be relieved!!! Our children & Sam's had a walk this morning, and now, we all go again to the woods over the canal this, P.M. - Maria's school begins on [Monday] Thursday, and I suppose Alice will have to go. tho' I never did a thing with so much reluctance. she needs to be thrown with many children, & the putting her alone with Foley, only increases her natural tendency to isolate herself - I am thankful that Frances will not be a pupil - With Much love Evermore Lucy -Lawrence Kansas Oct 25. 1867 Dearest Lucikin I have just returned from a trip to S. N. Wood at Cottonwood Falls. Things have been as we feared. He became discouraged, went home early in August & has not done anything since - He was taken sick & nearly died, was in bed three weeks - his wife & children were then sick. He was out of money. The mail to Cottonwood was robbed & he never got any letters till a few days ago for six weeks. The campaign was left to run itself & of course it ran into the ground. Had not Mrs. S. & Susan come out & Olympia Brown made the most heroic & persevering fight ever known, it would have been a complete fizzle. As it is, we are beat - It is only a question whether our vote will be large enough to give us respect & bring the case up again hereafter. I predict to you a vote of about 5000 - It may exceed that. If it reaches 10000 we are virtually triumphant. Negro Suffrage is in great danger. I think it will carry by a small vote. But most people think it is sure to be beat. Wood is not dishonest, nor without excuse. He is perhaps not to be blamed, yet I confess I am disappointed. I got no money from him. He says it is all spent & $150 besides of his own money - Baker of Topeka went down with me, carried me there with his horse & buggy - got no money, but Wood promises to pay him & will probably eventually do so. Baker says that he is sure Wood expected strong backing & large pecuniary aid & was disappointed at not receiving them. But I think the disappointment was quite as much due to the fact that the people were not up to it & could not be brought up to it in a single campaign, however vigorous - My impression is that whatever may beour vote, the practical steps which I have taken in regard to printing tickets, writing to every County, and getting out circulars will result in doubling our actual vote - And it is really very important to get as heavy a vote as possible. I think I shall get ready to start homeward within a week from today - Your letters all (but one) recd today in a batch are indeed full of news. Elizabeths place sold. I hardly know whether to be glad or sorry. She ought to have got $10000 - Mother to be with us. Personally I am very glad- also for Mother, but a little sorry for you, darling [dee?] - I will do my best to lighten the load! Annie at the [Boonings?]! Now we will see how that works! - I am glad that Edwards has paid & that there is a chance of selling the Pera farm. I don't think it will pay to go to Urbana. The man does not live there & before I reach the place will be away. I have just telegraphed Sheldon. "Sell for six thousand terms as proposed interest eight per cent -" I will try to see Baldwin on my way home - I enclose the form of circular which I have sent to two reliable friends in every County - With kisses for little Alice for whom I have plenty of pleasant things to tell to her when I return I remain darling [dee?] Ever your own Harry [*HBB to Lucy Stone Oct 25/67*] HBB Topeka Kansas Oct 29/67 Dearest Lucikin I am just completing the mailing of tickets and circulars throughout the State and shall leave here for Laurence tomorrow-spend next day there - go down to Leavenworth on Wednesday and if not detained there by negociations with the Democrats - shall start straight homeward same day stopping only at Chatsworth and Clinton. So you may expect me home D V. about the middle of next week. I think we shall need from Mr. Phillips about $800 more to square our a/c for Kansas and you had better advise him of the fact. However-if we can use the $300 contributed by the Drapers then $500 will probably suffice. I enclose a little memorandum showing, so far as I know how matters will stand. OurOffice of State Impartial Suffrage Association, } Topeka, October 28, 1867. } TO THE FRIENDS OF IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE: Bellow is a circular addressed to you by some of the best women in the State. We urge upon you to carry out the views therein expressed. A majority of the people of Kansas are in our favor. But organization is essential to success. The friends of Impartial Suffrage, and especially the ladies who desire to obtain the rights of American citizens should be at the polls all day in every voting precinct in the State, to request every voter to cast his ballot for the amendments. Tickets in favor of Impartial Suffrage, printed with blanks to be filled up by the voters with the names of the candidates of their choice, have been forwarded to every Post-master in the State and to reliable friends in every County for distribution, and can be had upon application to them. If such tickets are not to be had, let the ladies provide themselves with tickets of every kind which are printed for all the amendments, so as not to favor any particular candidate. Every lady should be provided with a pencil to enable voters to fill up the tickets readily. If only two or three ladies will be at every poll, all day, with tickets for Impartial Suffrage, our success is certain. Let every friend of the cause see that the Ladies and the tickets are at the polls on the 5th day of November, 1867. S.J CRAWFORD Chairman State Impartial Suffrage Association. Kansas Oct. 28, 1867. Women of Kansas! The time for Discussion is past, the day for Action has come. Let every Woman who values her political rights, and is interested in the welfare of her country, prepare tickets in favor of Impartial Suffrage and spend all day at the polls. Earnestly and respectfully request every man to vote for the amendment extending suffrage to Woman. Give one day to the elevation of our sex, the welfare of Kansas and the good of Mankind. Appeal frankly to the justice and chivalry of the men of Kansas and our cause will carry the State by an overwhelming majority. Mrs. S. J. Crawford, Topeka. " E. Ekin, " " E. G. Ross, Lawrence. " Chas. Robinson, " " D.P Mitchell, Leavenworth. " Wm. Larimer, jr " " Martin Gaylord, Atchison. " Pardee Butler, " " Sol. Miller, White Cloud. " Frank Drenning, Wathena. " L.C. Preson, Seneca. " L.C. Hebbard, " " R.B. Taylor, Wyandotte. " J.P. Root, " " Chas. Parker, Irving. Mrs. C. E. Gaylord, Irving. " S. D. Houston, Junction City. " R. McBratney, " " J. H. Pillsbury, Manhattan. " John Pipher, " " Judge Watson, Emporia. " H. B. Norton, " Miss Nellie Plumb, " Mrs. Jas. Rogers, Burlingame. " P. C. Schuyler, " " John T. Burris, Olathe. " W. W. Updegraff, Osawatomie. " W. M. Martindale, Eureka. " R. W. Jenkins, Vienna. " R. S. Hick, Louisville. Mrs. Joel Moody, Mound City. " Agustus Wattles, " " Capt. White, Fort Scott. " Watson Stewart, Humboldt. " S. S. Prouty, Burlington. " C. K. Gilchrist, Oskaloosa. " Elihu Coffin, Leroy. " Judge Graves, Neosho Falls. " S. N. Wood, Cottonwood Falls. " O. H. Drinkwater, Cedar Point. " J. P. Mather, Council Grove. " C. C. Columbia, " " C. B. Lines, Waubansee. Mrs. Olney, Garnett. " W. N. Hanby, " And Two Hundred others.own personal expenditures in Kansas last Spring over & above collections. I have not included and think it will be best not to include. If you know of any other expenses incurred you can add them. Truly & in great haste, but well & with much love to you & the Cub & to Mother & I remain Yours ever Harry Thank you for your good letters - I telegraphed Sheldon to sell lands for $6000.