Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-03-16
Misrellanfuus.
From the Home Journal.
Responsibilities OF american WOme

Responsibilities OF american WO men.
The spring time of the O,d World has
passed, and we look not now over the cas-
tern waters for the dawn of new hopes, bold
aspirations and bright schemes, bespeaking
a wealth Of prosperity, for the summer has
rested upon the wide fields of its classical
and political art, and the golden sheaves
have been garnsred for the threshing floor.
Life and inspiration have departed from the
marble fanes Of Greece; and the expecta-
tions of the world have long been withdrawn
from its crumbling shrines. Rome with her
proud brow crushed to the dust, and the
foot OF tyranny upon her neck, cannot claim
the tribute, bidding US hope for the day
when Liberty, clad in spotess robes, shall
hollow the shade of her time-Wrapped Col
lseum, and make again the "city of seven
hills" the proud Mistress of the World
The day of their glory hath long gone BY,
and the rehearsal Of their greatness-of The
victories Of their Alexander, and the royal
pride of their Cesars-is fading away in
the dim recesses of the past.
But the world must have its hope, and a
bright spot upon which it may rest. Though
the star-ray be feeble, and broken oft by
clouds, yet if it giveth but promise of
better things TO be, naught can break the
rrayerful gaze Of millions. One deep and
earnest longing arises now from the hearts
of the worlds noble brotherhood fra
ternal band, who, whether they be Jew or
Greek, Protestant or Roman, can unite their
voices in grand dispason of harmony
calling upon the God of their fathers for
their sacred boon of liberty. Monarchy and
despotism have grown aged; their treasur-
ed crowns rest uneasily upon their brows.
and when they chance TO fall, what faithful
child have they to replace them?
Well may America be proud ofthe hopes
that are centered upon her youthful en-
deayors and almos: untried skill. Well
may she foretell futures rosy dawn, glad
with the ful6llment of golden expectations,
prosperous in the unceasing wealth her in
dustrious hand hath planted; when the ma
tons of the Old World shall turn from the
grand architecture that piles in sublimity
their csthedrals against the sky;-from
their sculpture. life-like with impassioned
thought; their glowing canvas, their libra
ries Of ancient wealth, and their moss-roof-
ed cities, to gather from the fresh and bril-
liant stores that decorate and enlighten the
wild beauty of her cline.
Nor does she depend for the ful6llment
of her aspirations upon the brightness of
her dream, the fattering hopes of those for
eign to her aid, or even upon those illustri-
GUS sons who lived and died in her interest.
These msy cheer and make the labor seem
more light;-but her destiny rests With
fearful weight upon the characters of the
great men of the present and future day.
When we say it rests upon the characters
of the leading minds that govern us, how
quick is the perception of the true heart Of
our prosperity, the garden that nourishes
the tree we love. Americas daughters
have the keeping of this sacred hope, and
it depends upon their wstchful care and in
terest, whether it live or not
Can our republic anticipate an era Of
sterling intellectually, political wisdom and
true morality, if the preceding generations
are nearly devoid of any one germ of these
virtues? Can we expect another Wash
ington in the ripened manhood of one whose
youth was debased by dissipation, corrupt
ed by unrestraiued vice, and unpuri6ed by
the holy influence of d home and mother ?
Can Liberty hope for peers with her Jeffer-
SOD, Adams, and other like glorious minds,
whose hallowed light still fingers blessed