indness towards women, shown in innumerable
ways and recognized by them with gratitude and joy.

The active men of to-day were children when the Union was saved.
Helpless children, when Miss Carroll, in the prime of her life and
fullness of her powers, with clearness of perception, with firmness of
character, with the light of genius upon her brow, devoted her time,
her strength, her fortune, and her great social influence to the
national cause that the men of to-day might have a country, proud,
prosperous, and peaceful, to rejoice in themselves and to hand down in
unbroken unity to their children.

It should be not only a duty but a blessed privilege--still
possible--to see that all that earth can give to brighten the latter
days of our great benefactress shall be given her. That she shall be
crowned with the undying love and gratitude of a great and a united
nation.

And let us remember, too, what it would have been for our country if
the noble daughter of Governor Carroll had thought it her duty to keep
out of politics while her country was perishing, and to regard the
military movements, upon which its life depended, as something outside
of a woman's province.

The nation belongs to its women as surely as it belongs to its
men. All that concerns its welfare concerns them also, and nature has
gifted them with especial attributes of heart and intellect to aid in
its guidance and to aid in its salvation.

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