We have heard many complaints of the lack of enthusiasm, among Northern women; but when a mother lays her son on the altar of her country, she asks an object equal to the sacrifice.

In nursing the sick and wounded, knitting socks, scraping lint, and making jellies the bravest and best may weary if the thoughts mount not in faith to something beyond and above it all.

Work is worship only when a noble purpose fills the soul.

Woman is equally interested and responsible with man in the final settlement of this problem of self-government; therefore let none stand idle spectators now.

When every hour is big with destiny, and each delay but complicates our difficulties, it is high time for the daughters of the Revolution, in solemn council, to unseal the last will and testaments of the fathers, lay hold of their birthright of freedom, and keep it a sacred trust for all coming generations.
"To this end we ask the Loyal Women of the Nation to meet in the Church of the Puritans (Dr.Cheever's), New York, on Thursday, the 14th of May next.
"Let the women of every State be largely represented in person or by letter.
"On behalf of the Woman's Central Committee, "Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Susan B.Anthony." Among other resolutions adopted at the meeting were the following: "_Resolved_, There never can be a true peace in this Republic until the civil and political rights of all citizens of African descent and all women are practically established.
"_Resolved_, That the women of the Revolution were not wanting in heroism and self-sacrifice, and we, their daughters, are ready, in this War, to pledge our time, our means, our talents, and our lives, if need be, to secure the final and complete consecration of America to freedom." It was agreed that the practical work to be done to secure freedom for the slaves was to circulate petitions through all the Northern States.
For months these petitions were circulated diligently everywhere, as the signatures show--some signed on fence posts, plows, the anvil, the shoemaker's bench--by women of fashion and those in the industries, alike in the parlor and the kitchen; by statesmen, professors in colleges, editors, bishops; by sailors, and soldiers, and the hard-handed children of toil, building railroads and bridges, and digging canals, and in mines in the bowels of the earth.