Mr. Field and the Curtises took tea here. Mr. Gay1
was to have come but for some reason didn't. These fearful times make us so
suspicious! I know that we all go to bed tonight fearing that he had bad news
and wanted to let us pass a quiet night and not hear it until tomorrow. It
seems always as though we were walking over mines, which may at any moment blow
up and destroy all we love most.
We never knew before how much we loved our country. To think
that we suffer and fear all this for her! The Stars and Stripes will always be
infinitely dear to us now after we have sacrificed so much to them, or rather
to the right which they represent. What can be the end of all this misery?
Nothing seems to be done by us and everything is done by the Rebels. Discontent
with the Administration is growing fast, and if they don't do something, there
are many people who will be disgusted with war and ask for peace. “How long, oh
Lord, how long?” It is true what Mrs. Child2 says: “The Lord is
tedious, but He's sure.” We must do something soon. It's impossible that this
inaction should continue much longer. This suspense is horrible.
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1 Sidney Howard Gay, managing editor, New York
Tribune.
2 Lydia Maria Child, author.
SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The
Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 16-7
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