Cover page of William Jay, An Inquiry into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization, and American Anti-Slavery Societies, New York: R. G. Williams and the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837. Fourth Edition
Poem by Ruth Burgess Burleigh, which was clipped from a newspaper by an unknown individual and included in a scrapbook by Sarah Richmond Burleigh. It is unclear what newspaper the poem was printed in or when it was published.
Before the poem's title is the text "From the New World," likely an earlier publisher of the work.
Editorial extolling the mercy-bearing Mexican women who trod the battle fields of the Mexican-American war, and condemning American imperialism, American women who support the war, and male supremacy that cannot understand true Christianity.
