iasm is
ever based on a grand idea, and unity of action demands a
definite end. At this time our greatest need is not in men or
money, valiant generals or brilliant victories, but in a
consistent policy, based on the principle that "all governments
derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." And
the nation waits for you to say that there is no power under our
declaration of rights, nor under any laws, human or divine, by
which _free_ men can be made slaves; and therefore that your
pledge to the slaves is irrevocable, and shall be redeemed.

If it be true, as it is said, that Northern women lack enthusiasm
in this war, the fault rests with those who have confused and
confounded its policy. The page of history glows with incidents
of self-sacrifice by woman in the hour of her country's danger.
Fear not that the daughters of this Republic will count any
sacrifice too great to insure the triumph of freedom. Let the men
who wield the nation's power be wise, brave, and magnanimous, and
its women will be prompt to meet the duties of the hour with
devotion and heroism.

When Fremont on the Western breeze proclaimed a day of jubilee to
the bondmen within our gates, the women of the nation echoed back
a loud Amen. When Hunter freed a million men, and gave them arms
to fight our battles, justice and mercy crowned that act, and
tyrants stood appalled. When Butler, in the chief city of the
Southern despotism, hung a traitor, we felt a glow of pride; for
that one act proved that we had a Government, and one man brave
enough to administer its laws. And when Burnside would banish
Vallandigham to the Dry Tortugas, let the sentence be approved,
and the nation will ring with plaudits. Your Proclamation gives
you immortality. Be just, and share your glory with men like
these who wait to execute your will.

In behalf of the Women's National Loyal League,

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, _President_.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, _Secretary_.

Rev. ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL: Possibly there maybe nations,
like individuals, that are without definite ideas or purposes.
They sprang into being by accident, and they continue to live by
the sufferance of circumstances. Our American Republic is not of
this type. We were born to the her