Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-08-05
From the United States Gazette.
.sMAKE ROOM FOR PosTERITY.'
~ JOSEPH R caasDLrR, ESQ.

The editor Of the Baltimore Clipper, in
reply to correspondent using the sigma
ture Of Posterity," says, I'VE make
room for Posterily."
Well, just what our brother does, has
been done before from time immemorial.
Cain wandered 10 "make room for pos.
terity." Israeli journeyed in the d, seri
and possessed Canaan to make room
for pos,eri,y." Enens, the pious, wan
dered into Italy to "Inake room for pos
,erily." Penn gathered the people of his
faith together, aud sat peaceably down
on the banks Of the Delaware, to make
room for posteri,y." Men are elbowed
from cities, and located in praires for
that purpose. "The poor Indian" who
had sat down quietly in his wig.wam 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 make room for their posterity."
lie goes reluctantly 10 the distant West.
half pleased with the idea Of hunting
grounds that will afford "room for his
posterity." The posterity Of the Indian !!
poor, wandering, tapering cone--iis broad
base the whole soil of the new world, its
point lost in some peninsula that fades
away into the distant Pacific. The deep
foundations which our aged men are lay.
ing for habitations yet to rise, and the fin
ished saloons and ornamented halls-what
are these but room for posteriiy 2"
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 decaying place, the coffin Of the great
man, and covered it partially with earth,
our procession, turning TO pass out, met
another following young maiden 20 her
last earthly home. As we passed, the
mourning throng marsholled into funeral
train, ono whom we had long known shook
his head in mournful recognition, and
seem 10 say of our errands thither "we
come to make room for posteri;y.''
:" Room at thy hearth, Q MOTHER" said
one of the sweetest poets of our time, us
he started, full of fiial affection, to place
his new bride in daughters position.
Room at thy hearth" Ile came, and
found ample room. The beloved one, the
apos,rophised mother, had passed away
TO make room for her posterity."
All of us are crowding onward--all are
passing away to " make room for our pos
terity." We are to be pressed close, like
the gathered heritage, 50 that the whole
harvest Of our SIX thousand years will
seem to occupy less space than the single
generation that constitutes their posierity.
Below the sod, we lie still and compact /;
the true equality Of flesh and blood is uu-
derstoood and illustrated there, while
above, ample space is demanded, aud
acres are required FOR II single living.
The true democracy is in the grave A.:
there the rich and the poor lie down to
gether; that they may make room for
their posterity."
Even we who write, and moralize as
We pass along, look back at the troup 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 mansions, y
and in that hope we prepare, like our pro-
fessiona brother, TO make room Tor pos.
.or;ty ~