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Hymn of the Republic", initiated the idea of Mother's Day as an annual reminder of the cause of peace. |
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Our husbands shall not come to us reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. |
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To unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. |
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too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. |
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a voice goes up with our own. It says, "Disarm! Disarm!" |
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Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water
Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant
"Our husbands shall not come to us reeking with carnage, for caresses
"Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been
"We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country
>From the bosom of the devasted earth a voice goes up with our own.
It
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice! Blood does not wipe
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of
war,
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as the means whereby
And each bearing after her own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God. In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general
congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held
at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent
with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general
interests of peace.
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| The following from Julia Ward Howe, REMINISCENCES, 1819-1899, (Boston,
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899); pp 327-329.; is offered as some of the background for the Proclaimation: CHAPTER XV A WOMAN'S PEACE CRUSADE I had felt a great opposition to Louis Napoleon from the period of the
infamous act of treachery and violence which made
As I was revolving these matters in my mind, while the war was still
in progress, I was visited by a sudden feeling of the
The little document which I drew up in the heat of my enthusiasms implored
woman, all the world over, to awake to the
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| In the spring of the year 1872 I visited England, hoping by my personal
presence to affect the holding of a Woman's
Peace Congress in the great metropolis of the civilized world. [after several pages about the problems of women finding a public platform
in those days, Howe writes of the end of her
Howe was a member of Channing Memorial Church, the Unitarian Universalist Church in Newport, RI. Bibliography
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