The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-03-03
Cod have mercy on the pou,!

"THE PILGRIM MoTHERs!"-The Louis
vile Times is indebted to friend in Cali
fornia for the following. On the occasion
Of dinner celebration of the last anniver-
rary Of the "Landing of The Pilgrims" Cap
tain Charley BRENNAN, Mayor of San Fran
cisco, requested talented lady friend of
his to funish him suitable toast for the oc-
cason. He received the following note in
reply, which, we think, knocks Fanny Fern
into cocked-bonnet. The gallant Mayor
proposed the toast suggested, reading the
lady's note also to the company at the ta-
Bile, and "The Pilgrim Mothers!" was drank
in enthusiastic bumpers aud amid clalnors of
applause:
~ am surprised that man of your gal
lantry should be at loss for toast on an
occasion such as this-I say surprised, be-
cause know that you are not such Il hum-
bug as these Puritanical, strait-laced, hypo-
critical, Pslam-signing Pilgrim Fathers,
whom | hold in utter detcstatIon. You
came from the Souh where we do "honor
unto whom honor is dne"-I mean to the
,comen. For more than two hundred years
this hagrant act Of injustice to the gentler
sex has been tolerated and counteNanccd by
the men until it has ceased to appear an in
Justice to them. For two hundred years
men have usurped 30 quietly all the honors o.
Plymouth Rock--hsve given themselves
dinners, and to1sted themselves, and made
speeches about themselves TIER priyatipns,
fboir hnr Ishi IbAin
tions, that stranger never for u moment
would suppose that there had ever been ii
,coman within q thousand miles of "Ply-
mouth Rock"
"The Pilgrim Fathers" forsooth! What
had they TO endure in comparison with the
Pilgrim MotherS!' 1t is true they had hun
ger, and cold, and sickness, and dang PES
without and withn--but the unfortunate
Pilgrim Mothers! they had not only all these
to endure, but they had the Pilgrim Fathers
also! and yet their names are never men
toned. Who ever heard Of the "Pilgrim
Mothers" Who ever gives dinner in hon
or OF hhem2 Who ever writes songs, and
drinks toasts, and makes speeches in recol-
lection Of them! This selfsuficiency on the
part Of men is beyond all endurance. One
to hear them, would actsally suppose that
New England had been colonized entirely
by men, and poSterity provided by especial
act of Proyidencel Only Mrs. Hemans has
ventured to insinuate that there evcr was a
woman in the case--that the Mayhower ever
brought nything but men across the Allan
tic,
I assure yotf, my dear friend, ,thatif am per.
fectly dsgusted with the self-conceit of the
men-they appropriate euery thing to them
selves-4eveh the settlement of colony
and the peopling of whole coHtine,. dio
hope that there 'eaS one prcrogative they
would leave the women. We have submitted
quietly to their inventions for supercedint
US in many things-to their sewing machinel
and other ixings," but we will not tamel,
allow ourselves to be deprived of this on
prvilege-we will not allow ourselves to b,
deluded into tie belief that New Enganr
was settled and peopled entirely by +" Pilgrim
Fathers "--how could they have been }athsr
if there hao been no mothers7 And | hope
dear Captain, that have succeeded in con
vincing you chat you will be lending your
sell to an act of great injustice towards u
If you do not propose for your toast
1.-THE PILGRIM MOTHERS !"