[R-G] Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870

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Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870 



Arise then...women of this day! 

Arise, all women who have hearts! 

Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! 

Say firmly: 

"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies, 

Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, 

For caresses and applause. 

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn 

All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. 

We, the women of one country, 

Will be too tender of those of another country 

To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."