The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-07
To the Editors efthe Souihern Press.
MOVEMENTS OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS.
Lucretia Mott.
WoRcEsrER, Mass, Nov. 90, 1856


GEsrLEMES:-I have received the following
Information as to the future movements of th
distinguished reformer, from n source which
may be relied on implicitly.
LUcRErIA Mort, being greatly encouraged
by late favorable indications in the South, is OF
the point of visiting that chiva'ric section of tn,
Union, for the purpose of putting down wha
remains OF the supremacy of the breeches.
She will first visit Delaware, and says if tina
little State makes any resistance to the right,
Of women, she will smother it under her petit
coats.
From thence she goes to Maryland, where
she will make no stop, believing the lords OF
creation there sufficiently passive already and
proceed on to Washington, where she has three
or four grand objects in view. LIST. To see il
she can't make some sort of compromise by the
aid Of Messrs. Clay, Cass, and Foote. I'd. To
consult Granny Ritchie-as she calls hm-on
the propriety Of his wearing long earcd tabby
cap, and becoming Vice President of the Rights
Of Women Society. Sd. To see if she can't get
another decree of Providence from the Secre.
tary of State. 4. To confer with the father OF
the Senate, on the subject of the marriage ar.
ticles of Rosanof and Chckakoff, and the log
book Of the Russian Vice Admiral Krusenstern
Having settled these matters, she will pass
on to Virginia, where she will make but shor,
stay, rs she thinks they are pretty well prepared
for petticOat government already, and will re.
sist " ut all hazards and to the last extremity
every attempt to restrain the usurpations OF
manhood
From thence, after personally expressing her
acknowledgements to the editor Of the Rich.
mond Enquirer, she proceedst to North Carolina
where, she says, she will wake up Old Rip,
alias Peter Claus-with curtain lecture that
shall make his hair stand on ends
Lucretia will not visit Missouri, believing i,
not necessary, rs that State is pretty much undo
the influence of an old woman already
From North Carolina-passing by South Car
DINA, which she considers incorrigible-she
will proceed directly to Georgia and Alabama
both which she thinks are in sort of her
maphrodite state-half man, half woman, with
slight sprinking Of the swapping turtle Here
she will hoist the banner of the petticoat and
drum up for volunteers to tho tune of,
THE King Of France with forty thousand men
Marched up the hill, and then marched down
again"
From Alabama she contemplates going to
Louisiana and Florida, to try if she can't make
an impression on Creole Jack and Billy Bow.
legs the latter of whom, she is credibly in.
formed, wears only half pair of breeches. Re.
turning up the Mississippi, she will drop in or
Tennessee and Kentucky, to congratulate then
on their progress in her doctrines, and confirm
them in their allegiance to the petticoat. The
old lady says, they are already prepared to rock
the cradle and nurse the babies, and that though
the people of the South have failed to esab
lish male, she has no doubt of erecting a fe
male southern Republic.
am &c. &c,
A FRIEND TO THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN.