Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

We will not have great questions decided 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.

As men have often forsaken the plough 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 and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.