posted on May 1, 2003 08:06:58 PM new
Hmmm. "Star-spangled Banner" writer is a (yikes, gulp) peacenik?!!!!! A commie before her time?!! This is from a friend:
With Mother's Day coming up soon, let us recall and celebrate the
> > original, true purpose.
> > Mothers' Day Proclamation
> > by Julia Ward Howe
> > Boston 1870
> > Mother's Day was originally started after the Civil War as a protest to
> the
> > carnage of war by women who had lost their sons.
>
> > Here is the original Mother's Day Proclamation:
>
> > Arise, then, women of this day!
> > Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or
> of
> > fears.
> > 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 been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
> > We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country 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 does not wipe our 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 and commemorate the
> dead.
> > Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
> whereby
> > the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after their own
> time
> > the sacred impress, not of Caesar, 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.
> > Julia Ward Howe, Boston 1870.
>
posted on May 1, 2003 10:22:47 PM new
Beautiful words by Julia Ward Howe, Boston 1870
The "Star-spangled Banner" writer ????
I wonder how she would feel about the use of the US anthem to beat the drums of war.
Linda , HelenJW seems to echo the patriotic sentiments of this woman much more than you do.
Perhaps colin, 12pole reamond bear and some others might like to explain why they think they are more a ‘patriot’ than JWH too.
A ‘peacenick’, I’m amazed that some people consider this an insult.
posted on May 2, 2003 08:02:48 AM new
Julia Ward Howe, a very religious Christian woman and poet. Had she been around today and written the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" she'd have been banished by the 'lefties' as being totally politically incorrect and mixing religion with government.
The History of Mother's Day - start copy and paste:
In 1870, Julia Ward Howe took on a new issue and a new cause. Distressed by her experience of the realities of war, determined that peace was one of the two most important causes of the world (the other being equality in its many forms) and seeing war arise again in the world in the Franco-Prussian War, she called in 1870 for women to rise up and oppose war in all its forms. She wanted women to come together across national lines, to recognize what we hold in common above what divides us, and commit to finding peaceful resolutions to conflicts. She issued a Declaration, hoping to gather together women in a congress of action. She failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother's Day for Peace.
Her idea was influenced by Anna Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who had attempted starting in 1858 to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers' Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors.
Anna Jarvis' daughter, also named Anna Jarvis, would of course have known of her mother's work, and the work of Julia Ward Howe. Much later, when her mother died, this second Anna Jarvis started her own crusade to found a memorial day for women.
The first such Mother's Day was celebrated in West Virginia in 1907 in the church where the elder Anna Jarvis had taught Sunday School. And from there the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. Finally the holiday was declared officially by states beginning in 1912, and in 1914 the President, Woodrow Wilson, declared the first national Mother's Day. [end copy and paste]
The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate. J. Ruskin
[ edited by Linda_K on May 2, 2003 08:11 AM ]
posted on May 2, 2003 08:23:36 AM new
Here is "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as written by Julia Ward Howe when she published it in February, 1862, in the Atlantic Monthly:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
There were several revisions made later.
The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate. J. Ruskin
