The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-11-04
AMERICAN MoMEN

Henry Clay once said 10 friend Who vas
pTaising she tall things p kentucky
Yes sirl We have tan frees, tall horses,
and ell men--bat, sir teller than az kEsss
are kts ag0mea Ksal4eEgl1 Eloquent
ehiogist end host competent Judge neser
uttered islips drawer truth. And what
be said Of The women 81 Kentucky may 5.
said Of American Women. take them an 10,
gelher Beautiful, intelligent virtuou ins
dastrious, and if need be heroic. they chaI.
Elenge e comparison ihe Projections ol their
Fsisterhood Of whatever land 81 claim.
MOI among tie Oircassisn hills. where Tie
lord Of the ha1ern hunts Bis cOaeubine, nor
lin SUMMER Tlily, nor BY the hearths 81 tie
gOlden-haired, 'blue>eyed nations Of the
North are there fair omen-and ii all
the world are there none SO gentle and
brave. Women Of other nations are Of or.
lders Of beauty and virtue American NO
I'men. opposite il their graces and charms,
cluster all the orders and blend. ID them.
selves, the perfections 81 their sex. Not
like ours were the women ofFrange, 81 Ma
lpoleon would not. when Madame de stael
lasked-"What does France most want?o
have replied. France wants good moIhersl
The answer was bitter sarcasm to the un-
fruitful querist; but it was, also If not an
Insulting libel q sad confession for e. Belle,
France
/ American women may have had prototy-
lpes, but they were individual Of ia insOlate
groups. and not The sex Of whole nations Of
races Woman has never failed, since the
world began toillustrate. ID instances, the
glory of hernature- ceased % man
Iifest the divine in the human. With the re-
gal Esther. yearning to bless her ensalVed
kindred. and the ilial>love inspired daugh
tier, who sucked her grey-haired father
through prisoners bars, there have not
been parallels wanting, in all ages. to prove
THAT the angels Of God still wander on earth
Ito remind man oTEden and give him fore-
taste Of heaven.
twas not senniramis and Zenobia, wri.
ting their names in blood; not Aspasia cors
!. rupting athens and end making Greece
mo! Cleopatra. Egypt's beautiful and the
worlds most shameless courtezan--nay 1
none Q t these. famous through their unwo,
Fnanliness and infamy we're illustrators Of
THE glory of their sex--none Of these typed
american women. Theirty was, rather
penelope, weaving with her maidens through
weary years the web that shielded her sir-
tue until her royal husband returned from
his wanderings and wars, to gladden. her
heart Of, courteous Rebecca at the well; or
timid Ruth, cleaning in the field or, nobler
still, the Roman Cornelia. who, tainted in
Rome decayihg age By rivals. with her
poverty. held up her Yirtuous children ex>
claiming These are ny iewels!" Fit
women to have been the mother Of the
Gracchi' and like whom had all Roman
mothers been, Rome might to this day
have boosted an unbroken progeny Of hes
roes.
The stamina Of nation depends on the
character OF its women. If the mothers
are intelligent and virtuous; if they teach
nobly-the daughters modesty, industry
simplicity and truth, and the IONS justice,
honor and patriotism poverty bondage and
shame can never come upon the land D
which tie children 81 such mothers arc
The most enduring basis and bulvark.
Thank God the generation that planted
The wilderness Of the New World With ths
seed Of surprising empire an empire nov
radient with light and liberty bad sucl
mothers. Their sons and daughters were
the precious freight ofthe pspeedWell'' ant
The .Mayaouer. ana from landing A Pr
mouth through ths centuries d peril ant
sacrifce By which our fathers conquered
Tie wilderness. the savage and the bittere
father land oppressor giving Us wealth
and fame when they had only poverty anl
obscurity the race Of Noble America
mothers has been preserved. Mothers afl
sisters, and wives and daughters, unsuE
passed. Mothers Who taught their sons
worship God. olove their country and
honor manhood: who led them g the alter
of religion, sud chsered them with breV
hearlsto the baAle Geld, buckling TIE shisl
o each young hero arm bidding him e
turn victoriouaiy WITH d honogably daa
eSTSnNs IL