baby-stealing

Updated: August 2, 2026

I looked at it, then into his manly, handsome face, and answered: "There is blood on it; the blood of women and children slain at their own altars, on their own hearthstones, that you might spread the glorious American institution of woman-whipping and baby-stealing." "Oh," he exclaimed, "This is too bad! I swear to you I never killed a woman or a child."

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm - Half a Century