Accession: L02683
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Benjamin F. Butler, August 17, 1861
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Benjamin F. Butler 
Date: August 17, 1861
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper from Rumney, New Hampshire.
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RumneyEditorial Note: Rumney, New Hampshire Aug. 17. 1861
Maj Gen. Benjamin Buttler
Dear Sir,

Permit me individually, and as the representative of thousands of my sex in your native StateEditorial Note: New Hampshire ― to tender the homage and gratitude due to one of her noblest Sons, who so bravely vindicated the claims of humanity in your late letterEditorial Note: This is likely a reference to a letter from Benjamin Butler to Secretary of War Simon Cameron asking what he should do about the large number of enslaved people who had crossed Union lines to seek safety with his troops. Butler believed that they should not be returned and should also be declared free. Cameron later responded that a decision was made that they did not need to be returned, which was a step towards emancipation. to Sec. Cameron—

You dared to assume in the dignity of defending with your latest breath our Country's honor, the true position of justice and equity.

The final solution of the great National query follows,– will it be rendered to black as well as white, men, women & children, whom you have the courage and honor to defend in this the hour of our Country's pain and purification?

You, as we all, hold freedom to be the normal condition of those made in God's imageGen 1:26 ¶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. . In this, the man; can only equal the soldier who lays down his life for his country, and by fairness of argument elucidates the justice which can save her, and transmit to posterity the success of a republican form of government in heritage perpetual, and undimmed in its lusterAs Written:lustre.

But I would not task your time or forbearanceAs Written:for bearance to pursue As Written: persue farther comment on a letter which has thrilled with electric hope the homes and hearts of this section of our Country,― hope in God and the Right.

The red strife between right and wrong can only be fierce, it cannot be long, and victory on the side of immutable justice will be well worth its cost.

Give us in the field or forum a brave Ben Butler and our Country is saved

Respectfully ―
Mary M. Patterson

Gen. Benjamin Butler

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RumneyEditorial Note: Rumney, New Hampshire Aug. 17. 1861
Maj Gen. Benjamin Buttler
Dear Sir,

Permit me individually, and as the representative of thousands of my sex in your native StateEditorial Note: New Hampshire ― to tender the homage and gratitude due to one of her noblest Sons, who so bravely vindicated the claims of humanity in your late letterEditorial Note: This is likely a reference to a letter from Benjamin Butler to Secretary of War Simon Cameron asking what he should do about the large number of enslaved people who had crossed Union lines to seek safety with his troops. Butler believed that they should not be returned and should also be declared free. Cameron later responded that a decision was made that they did not need to be returned, which was a step towards emancipation. to Sec. Cameron—

You dared to assume in the dignity of defending with your latest breath your our Country's honor, the true position of justice and equity.

The final solution of the great National query follows,– will it be rendered to black as well as white, men, women & children, whom you have the courage and honor to defend in this the hour of our Country's pain and purification?

You, as well as we all, hold freedom to be the normal condition of those made in God's imageGen 1:26 ¶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. . In this, the man; can only equal the soldier who lays down his life for his country, and by fairness of argument elucidates the justice which can save her, and transmit to posterity the success of a republican form of government in heritage perpetual, and undimmed in its lustreCorrected:luster.

But I would not task your time or for bearanceCorrected:forbearance to persue Corrected: pursue farther comment on a letter which has thrilled with electric hope the homes and hearts of this section of our Country,― hope in God and the Right.

The red strife between right and wrong can only be fierce, it cannot be long, and victory on the side of immutable justice will be well worth its cost.

Give us in the field or forum a brave Ben Butler and our Country is saved

Respectfully ―
Mary M. Patterson

Gen. Benjamin Butler

 
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Rumney, New Hampshire New Hampshire This is likely a reference to a letter from Benjamin Butler to Secretary of War Simon Cameron asking what he should do about the large number of enslaved people who had crossed Union lines to seek safety with his troops. Butler believed that they should not be returned and should also be declared free. Cameron later responded that a decision was made that they did not need to be returned, which was a step towards emancipation.