Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-21
From the McMinnYille New Era.
Vernon.

''And consecrated ground it is,
TIE last, the halowed home OF one
Who lives upon all memories.
Though with the buried gone.
Such graves as this pilgrim shrines-
s rines to no code or creed confined
The Delphan wales, the Palestines,
The Aeceas Of the Mind"
It has been said that America has no PAsr-that
with her all is FUTURE True il is, that a. people
prone to forget the Past-ouF national air
ever bresthes of the present and immediate, which
De Toequeviile declares to be the neutral language
of Democracy. But If did ut sufficiently ap
preciate the fact. are the iDhrIitOrs of a most
glorious Past. and national existence has
been so brief, the more shame to if We forget IT,
and neglect TO honor he memory OF those b. gh-
hearted, and strong-minded heroes who made that
Past Glorious one. For the purpose of holding
forever in grateful remembrance the deeds and
character OF 0ue.-the noble chiet of those rOes
the "NOunt V"rnon Association" has been formed;
1t has for its acknowledged oiect the purchase
and preservation Of the home and grave Of Wash
ingtOH This, too, is the work of woman and 10
IL she lie proving that when prompted by right mo-
tves and nigh resolves, her is not fe BILE and
her voice is not powerless 1t is but just that this
should be Der work, for woman shares the renOwn
Of the men she makes gFest,-we shall be great
women if we have great sons Thus, though but
little Is said in country annals Of the father of
Washington, Re read always of his mother and his
wife; end though scarcely ever hear the name
of the father of Clay, his mother and his wife are
to rsposr close either size of him IN that noble
pile of architecture which is being erected to
his memory. Nay, more, let any live in the
hearts OF bis cOuutFymen, and the wife be loved,
the mother who bore him, stand there also, receiv-
ing homage together with that grand charaet, T
which they have developed and sustained perh p
almost created. Who shall dare qu stiOn The Ia
pOrtance al this work who presume TO cav al
the WGTkeTsH The stUc Nussulman enshrnes a.
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atile FTenchman sends his stately vessels to bear
from "lone barren isle" in the far seas the
ashes OF his loved Nspole on while stout-hearted
England haze aud is still searching the wild Arctic
wastes for the few white bones which were her
heroic Franklin, shall not then, whose Prophet,
Prince aud Pioneer lies neglected 10 view Of our
fre-sides, rouse ourselves to emulate the noble
gratitude Of the sOps OF the desert the dweers
upon Vine-clad hills, aud she whose 'mornug dru
beat is heard around the NO ld?" Aye, and verify
let there be casiers now; though there was
Tom Paine in the days of Washington, let Their
be none now; let them all be changed TO noble
EV-retts. THIS is mighty movement, but the
Press and the people fOI it, and where the for
mer leads, ana the latter susItius, shall still
IRON time TO time hear the cheering shouts go up
to heaVen-"rhe work goes braVrly On!" AS for
us-"MG Vernon Sisters" We deem il a noble priv
iege thOs to he able to lend aid in 'purch asing
sud preserving" the last resting place of him who
sleeps in that gray old tomb by tie muFmuring
1h' ha" whom tue plOukHuaH OF maEaLIou
bl sses as he remembers she struggle Of bis own
anG for liberty, whom the Swiss peasant T,var-
encts among m' as he does Mont Blanc among
the mOuntsins-upon whose statue the deep-t go
Italian gees with sfieetiOnate enthusiasm. wupm
France remembers the bosom fr end Of l. Fly
etlc - mo, wHile Poland has one patriot sill
will he loved the chief who led 20 tn batre-
hlc her Pulaski and her KOsciusko--whom q,
the poor Indian Ia bis uhtUtOred admiration has
immort'lized ty making him the only "pai, E'ce"
Who is allowed by tht Great Spirit TO r the
"hHppy bunting grounds" Like the little Il Il that
form tie mighty river, we will unite our thOusaud
forces-hke tie stil frost that b. auuhes the au-
tumu forest, our and silent influence will she
PlorV over d, ISOLATION and decay We will work
that our children may behold with pride TIE fruits
of our labors; and that the Americans who wan
GERS in foreign land may realize how the mystery
OF GHcca, rhr statelin OF Westm r. the glory
OF the Hotel des Invalides, and even the grande ar
OF 'od Imperial Rom@," will grow dim the re-
coll, ctiou of that simple tomb which is Swallowed
by the green groves Of ''Mount Vernon"
L. VIRGINIA FRENCH.
FoAxsT ROME, Sept. 10th, 1857.