And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:43:15 -0500 >From: "Ross Wilcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Importance: Normal >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: FWB: Mother�s Day Proclamation, 1870 >To: "Abolition-Caucus-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 > >Non-member submission from [Robert Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] >-----Original Message----- >Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:56:14 -0800 >From: Robert Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: Unity Foundation >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Mother's Day Weekend - 1999 Page 4 > >Mother's Day Proclamation, 1870 >Julia Ward Howe >Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether >your baptism be that of water or tears! >Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant >agencies. Our husbands shall 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 taught them >of charity, mercy and patience. >We women of one country will be too tender of those of another to allow our >sons to be trained to injure theirs." >From the bosom of the devastated earth, a voice goes up with our own. >It says, "Disarm, Disarm!" >The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood not not wipe out >dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the >plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may >be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet >first, as women, to bewail & commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take >counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can >live in peace, each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of >Ceasar, 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. > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
