Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-06-23
JOB PRINTING.
~Make room for POsterity.'

The editor of the Baltimore Clipper, in reply
to a correspondent using the signature "Posier-
ity." saws. 1--WE make room for Posteriy."
Well. lust what our brother does, has been
done from time immemorlal. Cain wandered
10 ''make room for posierity" Israel soourned
in the desert and possessed Canaan to ''make
room for posterity" Eneas the pious wan
dered into Italy TO snake room for posterity."
Penn gathered the people of his faith together,
and sat peaceably down on the banks of the
Delaware, to make room for posterity." Men
are elbowed from cities, and located in prairies,
for that purpose. 1.-The poor Indian" who had
sat down quietly in his wigwam TO smoke the
pipe of peace, and see his semi civilization
prosper around him---he, too, is admonished
that the whites need his land TO snake room
for their posteniy." He goes reluctantly TO the
distant west, half pleased with the idea of hunt
ing grounds that will afford "room for his pos
terity," The posterity of the Indian!!. !.-poor
waning, tapering Gomez its broad base the
whole soil Of the new world, lis points lost in
some peninsula that fades away into the distant
Pacific. The deep foundations which our aged
men are laying for habitations yet TO rise, and
the finished saloons and ornamented halls
what are these but "room for postery."
We followed, only few days since, into a
richly ornamented burying ground, the body of
one who, for years, had filled large space in
the public eye; and when they had lowered in
to the narrow resting and decaying place the
coffin of the great man, and covered it partially
with earth, our procession, turning 10 pass out,
met another following young maiden 10 her
last earthly home. AS we passed the mourn
Il
whom We had long known shook his head in
mournful recognition, and seemed 10 say of our
errand thither: eve have come 10 make room
for posterlly.'"
"Room at thy hearth, o mother" said one
of the sweetest poets of our time, as he started
full of flial affection, to place his new bride
in daughters position. "Room at thy hearth. y
He came, and found ample room The be-
loved one, the apostrophised mother, had passed
away TO "make room for her posterity"
All of US are Growing onward---all are pass
ing away TO ''make room for our pos,erity."--
We are 10 be pressed close, like the gathered
herbage, 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 un-
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: "there the rich and the poor lie
down together" that they may "make room for
their posterity."
Even toe who write, and moralize as we pass
along, look back at the troop that demand our
place. and feel that we too have the duty to
perform and the debt to pay, and gathering up
our mantle with decaying energies, we hope
there is room for us where there are "many
taansions," and in that hope we prepare, like
our professional brother, TO "make room for
uosteriiy.".-- u. S. Gazette.