Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-08-17
MAKE ROOM FOR PosTERITy "
by Joseph r. Chandler, editor of the q.
s. Gazette.


The Editor OF the Baltimore Clipper. in
reply 10 correspondent using the sigma
ture ''Posterity," says, "we make room
for Posterity."
Well, ust what our brother does, has
been done before from time 10 time i'm
memorlal.-Cain wandered 10 SNAKE room
for posterity." Israel soourned in the
, desert and possessed Canaan 10 SNAKE
room for posterity." Eneas the pious
wandered into Italy to "make room for
posterty." Penn gathered the people OF
his faith together and sat penceably down
on the banks Of the Delaware, to "make
room for posterity." Men arc elbowcd
from cities and located in prairies, for that
purpose. 1.-The poor Indian" who sat down
quietly in his wi gwam to smoke his pipe of
peace, and sec his standardization pros
per around him--he, too, is admonished
that the whites need the land to "make
room for postcrity." He goes reluctantly
to the distant west, half pleased with the
idea OF hunting grounds that will afford
Groom for posterity," Tho postcrity Of
tho lndlan!!--poor, waning, tapering cone,
It's broad base the whole soil of the new
world, its point lost in some pcnnsular that
fades away in the distant Pacific. The
deep foundations which cur aged men are
laying for Indications yet to rise, and the
finished saloons and ornamental halls
what are these but "room for postcrity?"
We followed, only few days since in
to richly ornamented burying ground, the
body OIL one who for years had filled u largo
space in the public eye; and when they
had lowered into 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 to her last home.
As We passed the mourning throng, mar
shalled into funeral train, one whom we
had long known shook his head in mourn
full recognition, and seemed to say of our
erronds thither ''we nave come to mako
room for posterity."
=" Room at thy hearth, o mother" said
one Of tho sweetest poets Of our time, as
no started, full Of flial affection, TO place
bis new bride in daughters POSITION
Room at thy hearth" He came, and
found ample room. The beloved one, the
apostrephised mother, had passed away to
make room for her pos,erity."
A Il Of US are crowding EDWARDS are
passing away 10 SNAKE room for our pos
tcrity." We ore TO be pressed close, like
tho gathered heritage, so that the whole
harvest of oursix thousand years will seem
to occupy less space than the single gen.
GRAFTON that constitutes their posterity.
Below the sod, we lie still and compact;
the true equality Of flesh and blood is I'M
derstood and illustrate there: while above
ample space is demanded, and acros are
required for single living. True demo
cracy is in tho grave; "tAerc the rich and
the poor lie tosether," that they may
"nako room for their postcriiy."
Even 'co who write, and moralizo as we
pass along, look back at the troop that de-
mand our place, and feel that we have
the duty TO perform and the deb, to pay,
and gathering up our mantle we hope thoro
is room for US where thero arc "many
mansions" and in that hope we prepare,
like our professional brother, 10 " mako
room for postsrity."