On this page
-
Text (1)
-
222 THE WOMEN INTEBCEDING FOB POLAND.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Following Our We Columns Have A Been . P...
knowled the Hussian ged to Czar be , great but — the often power proves of public greater op than inion has is been
acanticipated—and every individual who gives expression to a right feeling is contributing an atom towards that which in the
mass is one of the mightiest of forces . Frenchman With this who introduction labours so , we unwearie will dl now in let the the cause generous of the
oppressedspeak for himself . y , "AN APPEAL TO THE LADIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
IN FAVOUR OF POLAND . " Ladies , the of to in
of those trammels " which On verge in France giving make way our despondency sympathies for presence Poland - fruitless the Book in which the fiel is d when th , day ey mi to ght be be foun , most d Jn efficient your hands , I turned andthere my eyes I once on
every , , more read , _' Seek , and ye shall find ? J have " After found some you short bein meditation g guided b I y again the soug recollection ht , and it th is at you twenty , Ladies -five , I found years .
abolish names since , 187 in Slavery a , 000 Petition women which , to mercantilism , the Eng Queen lish , , Scotch compelled and , fondness and your Irish for Statesmen , the havin JStatu , g inscribed of quo that prompted time their to
them to maintain , . have " Many left of dau the hters honoured undoubtedl 187 , 000 worth petitioners of their are still mothers amongs and t you both ; others - - y gene
rations will vie g with one another y to shew , for the sake of Poland , , that in the United Kingdom the standard of generousChristianhumaneand civilizing _^
feelings is not lowered . , , , civilization _* " The British and Government reliionreceived , when from speaking the Czar in the but nam scornfu e of l humanity rebuffs _,, : ;
which rebuffs , , prompted g , as they were by a fatal distrust , they had , _unfortunately , too much shewn that they would peaceably submit to .
women " Your of own feelings and of modesty condition , Ladies for the , outraged crime of by havin the scourging e int of o every age g gon
mourn of old ing age for or illness their relatives in their , own dead homes either ; wjiilst your fi own ghting feeling for their of modesty country thus , or outraged will save Poland .
inflicted "It might for having seem fulfilled , that after the most such harmless savage and and holiest degrading duties chastisement , there exists no possibility of sinking lower down into turpitude . And yetMuscovite
barbarity knows further and wider refinement . , France " One th of at your the n man ewspapers Mourawieff , the _Morning has not J ? ost been , broug satisfied ht to our with knowled forbidding ge in
mourning , he has attempted to pollute it . commanded "' We have all authentic the prostitutes intelli of gence the country that by to his wear last mourning order _MourawierT , in order that has
th latter ey should taken not up for be p distinguished lying their vocation from the without honest a wom license en , . and He , after then punish lias the - town ment , '— they Morning are reg jPost istered Jul and 16 compelled th to receive licences as women of the
_., y , was " Mile twenty . Sliapova years , of flogged age . by the hands of a Cossack , has since died . She of
modesty " Ah ! within since your the voice own breasts of modesty , was , not suppressed recognised by by the your very ministers feeling and
222 The Women Intebceding Fob Poland.
222 THE WOMEN INTEBCEDING FOB POLAND .
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/6/
-