"  It  has  been  supposed,  Sir,  by  that  better  portion
of  this  community,  the  ladies  ot  Salem,  that  it  would


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not  be  unpleasing  to  the  association  of  Whigs,  over
which  you  preside,  to  pause  for  an  hour  from  the
austerer  duties  of  the  time,  and  to  be  recreated  by-
receiving  at  their  hands  an  expression  of  that  kind  of
sympathy  which  man  needs  most,  and  a  tender  of  that
kind  of  aid  which  helps  him  farthest,  longest,  and
most  gratefully,  —  the  sympathy  and  approval  of  our
mothers,  wives,  sisters,  daughters,  and  those,  all,  whom
most  we  love.  Under  that  impression  they  have  pre-
pared this  banner,  and  have  requested  me  to  present
it,  as  from  them,  to  you.  With  a  request  so  grateful,
from  its  nature  and  source,  I  am  but  ,too  happy  to
comply.  ...
