Arkansas True Democrat [Little Rock],
July 25, 1861
We see from the subscription list that Mrs. Elizabeth R. Wright, of this city, has subscribed the liberal amount of four hundred bales of cotton to the confederate loan. Mrs. Wright represents one of Arkansas’ oldest and noblest families; one that has ever stood high among the honored and cherished of the State, and its old honor and renown will surely gather a yet a fairer lustre from the unselfish devotion of its patriotic daughter.
Thus it is with the glorious women of the South. Fearlessly, gloriously they have offered themselves to their country. The laughing maiden, the busy mother and the mourning widow have vied in their efforts to advance our cause. Day by day, and night by night, they have toiled at the work until an army of heroes, clothed by beauty, grace and worth, stand forth, as did Achilles on the Trojan plain, invincible. And throughout our land the spirit of the Switzer’s wife is heard crying–
“We shall not be oppressed,
No we must rise upon our own southern sod,
And man must arm and woman call on God.”