Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Roadside, 1863 9mo 12
Scope and Contents
6 pages. Written from Roadside; the final paragraph is written in faint pencil. Mott discusses the illness, death, and burial of her grandson Henry "Harry" Cavender (1849-1863), son of Thomas Cavender and Elizabeth Mott Cavender, as well as other news of family and friends. Mott also reflects on the Civil War, discusses a recent speech by Charles Sumner, and tells of running into the ex-husband of her cousin Caroline Stratton.
Mott says of the Civil War: "How many are cut down, alas! Still, I wish to compare these awful sacrifices, with the tenfold-yes-manifold, in numbers, that slavery has doomed to the most cruel deaths from generation to generation--and if, by this present means, these cruelties can be arrested, and an end draw nigh to man's claim of property in his fellow man, we need not 'be troubled'-knowing that 'these things must needs be.' My faith, however, in the superior force of the 'mighty weapons' that 'are not carnal,' is unshaken."
Subjects: Children--Death; Parental grief; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War--Religious aspects--Society of Friends; War--Moral and ethical aspects; Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874; Personal correspondence
Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)
Dates
- Creation: 1863 9mo 12
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