The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-08-12
MAKE ROOM FOR POSTERITY. .
Editor ofhe Philadelphia a. S. Garstte.
BY JOSEPH R. CHANDLER, ESQ,

Editor ofthe Philadelphia U. s. Garsae.
The editor of the Baltimore Clipper in reply
to correspondent using the signature .Posterf-
ty," says, 1--WE make room for Posterityn
Well, Just what our brother does, has been
done before from time TO time immemorial-
Cam wandered TO SNAKE room for posterity .
Israel sojourned in the desert and possessed Ca
naan to ''make room for posterily.n >Hneas.
the pious, wandered into Italy To snake room
for posterity." Penn gathered the people of his
ialth together and sat peaceably down on the
banks OF The Delaware, to snake room for pos
terity" Men are elbowed from cities and To-
Gated in prairies, for that purpose "The poor
lndlan," who had sat down quietly in his wig
wan TO smoke his pipe Of peace, and see his
standardization prosper around him-he too, is
admonished that the whites need the land TO
'make room for posterty." He goes reluctantly
to the distant west, half pleased with the idea Of
hunting ground, that will afford ''room for pos
terlty." The posterity of the Indian !-poor,
waning tapering cone-its broad base the whole
soil of the new world, its point lost in some pc
nnsula that fades away in the distant Pacific
The deep foundations which our aged men are
laying for habtations yet to rise and the finished
saloons and ornamented halls-what are these
but room for posterity y
We followed, only few DAYS since, into
richly ornamented burying ground the body Of
one who, for years, had filled large space in
the public eye and when they had lowered into
the narrow resting and decayng place the coffin
OF the great man, and covered it partially with
earth, our procession, turning to pass out, met
another following young maiden to her last
home. As we passed the mourning throng,
marshalled into funeral train, one whom we
had long known shook his head in mournful re-
cognition. and seemed to say Of our errands
thther ''We have come to make loom for pos
terty.'n
Room at thy hearth, 0 mother" said one of
the sweetest poets of our time, as he started,
full OF fillal Affection to place his bride in
daughters position Groom at thy hearthn-
HI came, and found ample room. The beloved
one, the apostrophised mother, had passed away
to make room for her posterity"
All of us are crowding onwards-all are pass
ing away to 'make room for our posterity."-
We are to be pressed close like the gathered
heritage, so that the whole harvest of our six
thousand years will seem to occupy less space
than the single generation that constitutes their
posterity. Below the sod we lie still and com
pact the true equality Of flesh and blood IS I'M
derstood and illustrated there while above am
pie space is demanded, and acres are required
for "a single living. The true democracy is in
the grave: "Mere the rich and the poor lie to-
gether," that they may "make room for their
posteTlty."
Even ,re who write, and moralize as we pass
along, look back at the troop that demand our
place, and feel that we have the duty to perform
and the debt to pay, and gathering up our man
tie we hope there is room for US where there
are ''many mansions and in that hope we pre-
pare, like our professional brother, to snake
room for posterty."