A Few Words in Behalf of the Loyal Women of the United States (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Perhaps this habitual reserve or selfcontrol is sometimes carried too far, as it may occasionally circumscribe their influ once by lessening the Sphere of their example. Instinct, educa tion, and habit, all prompt. Them to err rather on that side than On the other. Passionate utterance is no evidence of right feel ing; it is too often the mere ebullition of that which has no support in reason or principle. Yet passion in a noble cause may be both natural and useful, and it certainly becomes us to think whether our too-carefully restrained manner may not bring reproach upon our noble cause. We might at least ex tract so much good from the bitter things put fo1th against us, as the ancient Britons are said to have compounded healing medicines (mm the gall of thei1 slain enemies.

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The gist of all that has been said of our deficiency in the present crisis, so far as we understand it, is that we have not shown passion enough that we have acted naturally, in short. Vvlyy should we simulate a white heat if we did not feel it, or see any occasion for it? The time may come when our pa triotic fire will need no incitement; when the sacred fur'y will burn of itself, as alone it should burn. When it does, it will be no' straw-blaze of excitement, calling the' eyes of spec tators and dying out easily, if not fed by new supplies of itse vain fuel. Thus far we have seen only obvious duties and anxiously fulfilled them to the best of our ability: _it is 'a solemn truth that notwithstanding all the outrages of our traitorous as sailants, we have never yet been able to get. Personally angry with them. Not that we do not from our'so'ule hate and despise traitors and treachery, but that the oldhabit of friendship with our Southern neighbors makes it 'so difficult _for us to'connect those feelings with them and make'it personal. F'

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