The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-06
NEBRASKA! NEBRASKA!
The Women Called to the Rescue.

The Women Called to the Rescue.
AN APPEAL TO THE WOMEN OF THE FREE STATES OF
AMERICA, ON THE PRESENT CRISIS IN OUR COUNTRY.
BY MRS. HARKIYr BxDCHxR STOWE.
The Providence OF God has brought our nation to
crisis Of most solemn interest.
question is now pending in national legislature
which is most vitality to affect the temporal and eternal
interests not only Of ourselves but Of children and
our nation to affect the interests Of liberty and Chris
tianity throughout the whole world.
OF the woes the injustice and the misery of slavery
it is not needu to speak There is but one feeling and
opinion on this amoug all do not think there
Is mother among all who clasps her child to her
breast who could be feel 1t right that that
child should be slnve not mother among US all who
would not rather lay that child in its grave.
to think right to inct her neighbours child what
she would think worse than death it inflicted upon
it right that her husband should be sold to trader and
worked all his life without rights and without wages.
right that his wife should be considered by law the
property Of another man, and not his own l do not
think there Is father mother who would believe it
right they forbidden by law to teach their children
to read. do not believe there brother who would
think right to have his sister held property with no
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slavery but the legal nature Of it. And there not
put before her, who thinks these things are right.
However ambition and the love of political power may
blind the stronger sex God has given to woman deeper
and more immovable knowledge in those hoer feelings
which peculiar to womanhood and which guard the
sacredness Of the family state.
But though hearts have bled over this wrong,
there have been many things tending etter hands,
to perplex efforts and to silence voice. We have
told that to speak of it invasion of the rights
of other States We have been told Of promises and of
compacts and the natural expression Of feeling has
many been restrained appeal to those honor
able sentiments which respect the keeping Of engage
ments.
The warm beatings Of many hearts have been hushed
yearnngs and sympathies have been repressed be-
cause we have not known what to do; and many have
to turn deaf to the whole tale of sorrow be-
unwilling to harrow the soul with feeling where
action supposed to be impossible
But the time has when the subject is arising
under quite another aspect.
The question now Shall the wrongs of slavery
is they have their Territoriesp but shall
permit them to be extended all the free Territories
of the United Satesp Shall the and miseres of
slavery be extended region of fair ree unoccuped
territory nearly equal in extent to the whole of the free
Statesf
Nor is this all This is not the last that is expected or
intended. Should this movement be submitted to in
sence-should the North consent to this breach of
solemn contract on the part of the Souththere yet
ns Of slavery throughout the free States By the aec
sion of the Supreme Court in the Lennon case 1t may
declared lawful for slave property to be held in the
improbable that there may be, four years hence
slave depots in New York city, than it was four years
ago, that the South would propose repeal of the Mis-
souri, compromise.
Women Of the free States the question is not, Shall
we demonstrate with slavery its soil but are we
willing to receive slavery into the free States and Terri
Shall the whole power of these United States 60 into
open slave Slater This will be the final result and
issue OF the question which is pending This is the
fearful crisis at which stand And now is there any
thing which the women of country can dor Oh, wo
men Of the free States what did your brave mothers do
in the time of revolutionary truggles Did not liberty
in those days feel the strong impulse Of womans hearth
Never there great interest agitating the commu
nifty when womans influence not felt for good for
evil At the time when the struggle for the abolition of
the slave trade conyulsing England, women contr
buted than other aborers to that great triumph
of humanity. The women and children Of England to
into farniI fho
sugar raised by the suffering slaves Seventy thousand
families refused the Of sugar, testimony Of NE
abhorrence of the manner in which II was produces AZ
that time women unweared in passing roru house
to house distributing tracts and books and presenting
the subject in families.
One lady alone called on and conversed in this with
than two thousand families and others were not
behind her in their abors.
The all England associated in cores
pondng circles for prayer and for labor Petitions to
government were gotten up and signed by women.
During my recent visit In England was called to the
bedside Of aged mother in Israel whose prayers and
sbors earth well nigh ended, but who had borne
this sacred in her heart from the very
ment. was never more impressed than when, raised
in her bed with quverng lips and streaming eyes, she
lifted her hands soemnly in prayer to God that He would
bless the labors for the cause Of the slave In America
and at last bring the final abolition Of slavery through
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Women Of America we do not know with what thrill
ing the hopes and the eyes Of the world
fastened on our country and with what ntenseness they
desire that we should take decided ground for universal
liberty This sacred desire spread through the lower
and working classes Of other countries m well as through
| when was in England although distinctly stated
that the raising Of money no part Of my object and
on account Of the state Of my health, declined TO take
any responsibility Of that kind yet money was actually
DO something for this cause Most affecting letter, were
received from Door working men and women, enclosing
small sums in postage stamps, for this object