Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

This was also the first history of the Revolution authored by a woman. Marriage
She married James Warren. The book contains eighteen political poems and two plays.

This was also the first history of the Revolution authored by a woman. In 1805 Mercy Otis Warren publiMercy Otis Warrend one of the earliest histories of the American war for independence a three-volume History of the Rise Progress and Termination of the American Revolution. During the years before the American Revolution Warren publiMercy Otis Warrend poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties.