An Appeal for peace sent to Lieut. Gen. Scott, July 4, 1861. : The mission of woman, has ever been a holy work consecrated by that patient suffering, which calls forth a world's sympathy for her gentle fortitude. ... To you, our once great nation's chieftan, we call aloud in bitter anguish, to stay the strife which now desolates, our homes, and give to America a bereaved sisterhood. ... To you we appeal as hope's last beacon, looking for the light which can alone point to a brigher day; and we thus place upon the register of our archives, this our cry of woe, whose piteous tones will be known as the appeal of the women of Maryland.