The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-08-19
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APPEAL TO FEMALES.
ny MRS. slGouRNEY.

We are verify guilty concerning our BROTHER
When, to expunge foul blot from national
character, the great the wise, and benevolent,
combine their energies, IL becomes not those Of
humble name or obscure station To remain IN
different. The weaker sex, who depend for
safety and protection ON others, have immense
interests at stake, in the morality and purity OF
the community Their plea Of want of power,
can scarcely be admitted as a fair release from
responsibility, since the morasts, and even po-
liticians, of our own day, have asserted that no
evil can obtain great predominance in the com
munlty, without the permission of females.
The cause of temperance, which has already
wrought such wonders, and has still a giants
work 10 perform, claims their earnest co-opera-
ton Surely. they whose duties and elcites
are involved in the domestic and maternal rela-
tons should be peculiarly and painfully watch
full against every approach OF sin which desc
crates homes hallowed sanctuary.
We do not address those who have given their
hand To the destrover-who, in the strong Ian
guageiof inspiration, have made a covenant with
the grave, and with hell are at agreement" We
are sensible that scarcely any agent, save the
voice Of him who raiseth the dead, is available
10 break their bondage; but they who with re-
gard 10 this insldious poison, literally obey the
present touch not, taste not, handle not and
suppose themselves absoved from all other ef-
foTts-are thty therefore absolyed
My sisters, if we assent 10 the proposition
that not 10 prevent sin, when in our power to do
So is as blameabe as to have aided in It's perpe-
trallon, are we justified in supneness, while
such multudes are going down to the grave
with this leprosy in their skirts and in their
| souls DO we, To the teaching of example, add
the whole weight of that influence which the
courtesy of an enlightened age, and the conde-
scenslon of the religion OF Jesus have in these
latter DAYS accorded Us Ii we are conscious
OF remssness, let the words OF the poet admon-
| lsh US
:" Lo our not doing is set down
Among our da rkest deeds"
Let tic word of inspiration counsel US TO avoid
the language with which the errng sons Of ia
cob exclaimed, Nv are gully concerning our
brother.n
lntempeIancc hy the hrcsldc, nj the house
hold board, in the nursery-haye we nothing TO
do 2 We whose affections have taken root by
that liresde whose province it is to make that
Household board subservcnt 10 health and hea-
venly gratitude-to whom that nursery IS the
garner of the fondest hopes for time and for
| eternity-sha we perceive, amid those sacred
haunts, the footsteps Of the enemy, and slum-
Der
Wife,-who by solemn vow before men and
angels has entered INTO union which death
alone can sever, has II been your tate 10 see the
vice of ntemperance casting a deathly shadow
over the heart IN which, next 10 Heaven, was
your confidence : and day by day and hour al
ter hour, aS you watched is fearful ravage. have
YOU hccn vlgilnnt not 10 uphraid, not 10 argue
reproachtuy, but 10 rcpress your own sorrows
10 render home desirable, 70 re-awakcn those al
f,ctons which are the guardians Of purity and
| peace Above all, were your applications un'
ccaslng lin who 'turncth thc heart OF man
as the rivers oi waters are turned'l VI 81, though
the harvest Of your lahors may have perished-
though the disruption ofy your hope nothing earthly
can suppy--s,lll YOU will have escaped that
deeper torture of rejecting that you are verify
guilty concerning him who was once "youi
more than brother aud your next e. God
| Mother whose duties are lad deeper than
any vow Of The lips, even ~ the Immuiahle
strength Of love that cannot swervc. have YOU
counseled your offspring ia this Mailer rising
up early and late taking nst Among those
habits which modify charartcf DID you incul
cate the control Of the animal appetite, The 50.
periorlly Of happiness derived from intellect aud
virtue, 10 the hccung pleasures ~ sense the
noblcness Of subJUgaung The acsh 10 The spinl
Did YOU oppose with your fiown, "wlth the
/ force OF your authority. the first alteration from
these princi les Did YOU fully gct before them