Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1848-07-08
WOMAN.

HoNoRrp be woman Shame on those
who would speak TO her, or of her. in other
than terms of kindness and respect. A gal
lant contemporary thinks that this world would
be hardly worth living in, were it deprived
of woman. Listen TO his rhapsody Who
would remain in a garden from which the
flowers have been taken, or i'll a grove from
which the birds have departed, or beneath
sky that the sweet stars had forsaken q! Let
cynics prattle as they may, our existence
here without the presence of the other sex,
would be only dark and cherries void.
The light, the smiles and affections of wo-
man, are the bow of beauty and promise,
which spans the life of man from his cradle
10 his grave.
Another writer says GEORGE CANNING al
ways cherished the tenderest love for the
humble mother that bare him. So soon as
his resources would permit, he made ample
provision for her support; and for years after
he entered Parliament, and even when II
foreign ambassador, he wrote her a weekly
epistle, breathing the kindliest affection.
Though he could never elevate her tastes and
associations above the connections of her
youth, he used 10 throw aside the cares of Of
flee, that he might visit her and the humble
cousins with whom she dwclt, at Bath, and
there, when in the zenith of his fame, would
walk out with his plebeian relatives, and re-
ceive the homage Of his lordly visitants at
that fashionable place of resort, in their COM
pany. This makes him noble man, He
delighted in literary pursuits-was brilliant
cssayist and wrote Latin and English verses
with much grace and beauty.
How cntwincd around the hea rts of the
best and greatest men, are the thousand re-
collections of maternal 1--we! In looking pack
thro' the desert Of years: TO the first years of
life, the rosy spring-ime of existence, the
soul beholds mothers form shining like an
angel in paradise. Around her clusters all
that is beautiful and hoy-she is the child's
divinity and the memory of the man re-
cognizes and recalls all that was heavenly
and pure in past life, by reverting to the dear
thought of mother.
LahN a i->i'; IA MS oJuEt tH o't"i
touchingly adverts TO his mothers teaching.
"My mother" he says, chad received from
her mother, a handsome Bible of Royoumont
from which she taught me 10 read when
was very young. This Bible had engravings
of sacred subjects, on nearly every page.
When had read half a page with toerable
correctness, my mother allowed me TO see
picture and placing the book upon her
knees she explained the subject to me, as a
recompense for my progress She was most
tender and afectionate by nature and the
impressiveness and love, which still resounds
in my heart, after that voice has, alas long
mute.n
What born wonder is it that the child who
listened to such teachings, from such teach
or, should have become the great and good
man LAMARTINEs Our own WASHINGTON
had likewise such mother Never can the
soft, gentle whisper ofa mothers early teach
ngs be torgotten-nevcr can her influence
be overrated. Well Unanswered Madame Cam
pan, to the question, ''What is needed to edu-
cate nation 2" when she replied in one
word-"NloTHERs ~