Here, on a sunny afternoon at the close of July, the author saw between fifteen and sixteen hundred Infants paraded under the branches of the trees, sleeping in their tiny cradles or in the sturdy arms of the country-bred nurses, of whom there were over five hundred.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
But be the individual circumstances what they may, the Government cheerfully takes charge of all the Infants that are offered.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Gentlemen, it is not merely for my own self-defence from this unpleasant charge, that I lay this argument before you, but it is that you may see, from my standpoint, how exceedingly frail is the thread on which our reputation for sanity is suspended, and how very liable married women and Infants are to be thus falsely imprisoned in Jacksonville Insane Asylum.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard