New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-11
sl MOUNT YEPN0.W.

Heaven bless the women and the guide I'd
everything becoming, that God has set in their
heartsl Without them, what beasts of prey for
every ching humane, what mere forkea radishes
for everything noble, we should be What a
pretty gentleman would Adam have made,
without an Eve whom he wanted to please!
what good fellow! what a worthy, and what
wise citizen To our thinking, woman is the
perfection Of all the Most Highs amazing inyen-
tions. Everything must have been made for
her: for she was the final work. Man was but
the coup fessai; woman, the ehef-G9upre
He was but the first crude conception; she, the
bright consummate idea, In short, ne was the
effect of first impression; she, the result OF re-
Election. Well does she prove the truth that
% second thoughts are best;'' for she was Gods
second thoughts. 5l.
Only see how the hearts Of women 60 about
those good and fit things, which the wise heads
of men dare not think, the strong arms Of men
have not the nerve to dol Are those things
such as deeply stir the fond, and true and rev
erent affections Of woman she will set about
xffem with the invincible. the sacred courage of
the affections; and they shall, though impossi-
BILE to men, be done What can, what shall re-
sist her, when the heart of womankind has risen
up and told her that there is q holy thing to be
accomplished, which the men will not, and
therefore she must perform
Everything in the country, not stony with
personal cupidity, or dead in the stolidity Of
demagognism, has long felt that the habitation
of the Father of his Country was the great
homestead of this nation, and could not with
ont signal impiety, be suffered to pass into the
vulgar condition Of mere ordinary acres. Every
foot of them should have been held as consecra-
ted earth, to be, as soon as possible, rescued
and set apart forever, as the dearest possession
that is ours, as the very roof-tree and hearth
stone Of our country, the temple of all its do
nestle affections, their great place Of worship.
1t should have been like that kcbla, towards
which the Mahometan, wherever he may be,
turns his face when he prags-the prayer-point
of American patriotism, and its place Of pill
grimage. x
OF course, at the present opportunity, it
should have been acquired, at whatever cost.
1t was not an object to be huekstered about, to
be cheapened. Our treasury overfows with
wealth: we are lavishing it upon thousand
worthless objects and undeserving men. To the
family which gave us Washington, we should
have rejoiced to make, in this especial shape,
q requital far more magnificent, proportioned
to his merits, to our own gratitude, and the
poverty Of his representatives
Well: the opportunity came. Was it seized
Alas no. Congress thought that Mount Yer
non and its domain should be estimated by the
acre; and that, at 100000, they would not
fetch profit 1t declined the purchase, there
fore. Mr. George W. Jones and such patriots
think that, when the house-which the master
is not rich enough to inhabit- shall have crum-
bled away, and the tomb, which needs q CON
tinual watch, shall have been rifed of the awful
relics which it holds, we shall be able to get
them quite bargain
But, thanks be to Godt if there are no men,
there are women left. The women have taken
the matter up Those of Savannah (honored
let them be ) have started it. those of Mobile
have followed. They will buy Mount Vernon
with the needless ornaments of their beauty,
their pin, their market money. There shall be
no more cakes nor hardly comforts, until it is
paid for. The children may help: the men
shall not! 60 forward, sweet sex! Shame the
other, by your spirit In your pure hands,
what can fail Long life to the petticoats!