Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-06-07
From the Mobile Tribune.l
Mount Vernon-To the Reseue.


Our readers will be interested in the ad Iress TO tho
ladies which publish this morning. It is from the pen
OF one who by her has right the attention of those
to whom It Is sdlresed Ii is also very cleverly written
with little touch OF irony that adds its piquaucy
We can hardly suppose that the ladies stand aloof from
this womanly enterprise" because of n belief in its i'm
proprety II woman have interests beyond the little
circle which surrounds her family duties; if peep thence
into the wholesome air which be found without that
narrow round OF cares, be within her Office then we
shall be obliged to disown the merits of nearly half the
yrtuous and generous deeds of the pasthaf it, genius
But woman Is much part of the acting breathing
"orii as man. and although her sphere may be differ
ent. It u difference only Of kind responsibility
We have total aversion 4 who eudues herself
With the unmentonables and simply because il she do
well what it is universally admitted she has right to do
she will have before her much Of noble work can
accomplish
woman may not with propriety Gird on a sword and
lead in armies: she may command ship: she NAV
not mnge III legislature debate she may her
scli into the rude of the political areua-but
because she may not do these and similar things which
apparently antagon,c those traits of her nature
which make her oseable and potent it does follow
that she is fit for nothing but drudge a triher-her
destiny oscilatng between that of slave aud the nspd
elegincies OF n seraglio.
Wherever there is pure sentiment there a vomans
sphere-"herever good may be done-wherever noble
and vittuous thoughts may be nspired-there lies duty
Tor a woman TO pcrform-whether il lead beyond her
household not and this duty is imperative that il
csnno be Stunned without prejudice her dignity and
influence.
What shocking notion is this that a woman cannot
cease TO be drudge for the purpose OF lifting herself up
TO the level OF heroic thought inspire BY ccasing TO
be slave, something more respectable than the right
mode oi measuring out the Ingredients of pudding =
Heaven help IL this o idea get the heads Of
the Boomersm Is heroism compared to this misera
bic and humiliating prescription.
To rescue the home Of Washington from spoation Is
the peculiar business Of woman. At the sick bed at
the grave she has power and here is the grave of
whom She equally with the other SEX owes a debt Of
eternal gratitude To from HARM is her duty par
ucula.l,; and any who should condemn her for the
act deserves to die where there is gentle voice sooh
his passing moments.
But the is ridiculous. IL is made from idleness
or insanity; and deserves respect
We trust theD that the appeals We have already pub
shed, aud that within columns to-day will provoke
some immediate acton II be general the form Il not
essential Ii only necessary that be taken
carry the object to every part Of the II here ia
Mobile judcious circular printed aud all
quartes and placed in each locality within the hands Of
lady who would take interest in it, the end would
be accomplished at Only the trihng expense
Is necessary and within three months after simultaneous
movement OF this made the home OF Washing
ton would be forever saved from desecraOn and
hereafter too the deed would be appealed an evi.
dence that the of this age unworthy OF the
greatness which its will impress upon the pages Of
history.