Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-15
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Last Advice Of Dying Old Pcnnsylvo-
nlOn.
[Reported by an eye and ear witness.l
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Nv own parents, as well as your poor de-
parted mother and myself, always consider
ed the moral and religious education Of our
children as a paramount duty to our God and
our country, and when, often in silence, l ad-
mired the tender care of your mother with
which she watched and guided you and Eliza,
and how carefully she contended against all
bad outside influences, could not help being
reminded of all had been done for me at the
hands Of my own mothea. But also l could
not help being reminded of what the mother
and wife, (and chiefly his mother) must have
been to Washington and consequently was
brought to the conclusion that your country,
the American people, are, to a certain extent,
at least, indebted to the mother of Washing
ton for the liberty and free institutions you
now enjoy therefore believe that | do not
ask too much at the hands of the American
people, when suggest to them to found a
Female Legion of Honor to the honor and
memory of her, and bearing her name
When our Catholic brethren, in their ven
Grafton for Mary, the mother of Christ, at
tribute to her what only belongs to Him,
our all omnipotent heavenly father, may be
permitted to say that they go really too far !;
but if they go too far, l see no reason why
your country should be so ungratefu to the
mother of one to whom you consider yourself
so manifoldly indebted. Because men make
the laws, without any participation of wo-
men-because we alone preside, and are seat
ed in the councils of the country-I can see
no reason why only meritorious men, and no
women, should be honored, and their MEM
ories be sacred to the country.
When, sometimes in the morning | have
freed my poor little dog from his chain, he
has crawled and crawled before me, and
looked into my eyes as if he wanted me to
tell him what kind of gratitude would de-
sire for his liberty l have thought that if a
poor little animal shows so grateful feeling
for his liberty, surely men, created in the
image of God, should be grateful to a far
higher extent to those to whom directly and
indirectly they are indebted for their liberty
and happiness.
Editors of newspapers may write and
write, and ministers of the gospel may
preach and preach, but they can never. do
what good mothers alone can do through
moral education of their children.
In a country where the ballot box is called
upon to decide the welfare and happiness of
the whole nation, where the holiness and inn
pOrtance of an oath should be really under
stood and known by ALL an intelligent and
moral people appear to me to be a permanent
condition.
In Europe, in constituted realms or en-
pires, the sovereign or an intelligent ministry,
sometimes under the indirect control of
legislature, has to make the choice Of well
fitted men for every office, and am told,
and believe it to be true, that as general
thing, the right man is always put in the
right place.
The sovereign, the ministry and the con-
troll of the Legislature are here in our coun-
try represented by the should beholy ballot
box, and ask what quantity of intelligence
and moral principle, thus is not required in
order to bring the right man to the right
place?
The time will come my son, when virtu-
Gus and honest men shall have their share
also. Political men of influence will not
always rule alone over this country and l,
s1harafora would ;n,Oross ,,no,, mind 81,
necessity to be and to remain always an
honest man in all positions wherever the bal
lot box may place thee. am about done,
but cannot help bringing to thy knowledge
an incident that happened to me last night.
At the moment. when in my mind pre-
pared for thee this last advice, and when l
came to the point, where insisted upon the
gratitude of thy country to the mother of
Washington, it seemed to me that saw the
spirit of poor Washington standing before
me; upon his pale brow the happy smile of
grateful son. thought he thus spake to
me: "Be blessed, honest man. Just now
left Washington City, with sadness, and from
New York fled with horror. Mortal men,"
he continued, will always think that mar
ble pillars are enough to show their graft
tude to their dead henefaetors, or men of
merit The gratitude wish at the hands Of
my children, is, as thankful as | may, how
ever, be for it, not in the marble pillar nor
in the high price paid for Mount Vernon;
the gratitude l wish is, that my children
may be worthy, as SO many of them already
are, of the liberty and free institutions We
have left them, and that after the progress
OF European statesman through our whole
country, he may go back to his prince and
oe compelled to say; My Sovereign, the ex-
pertinent is made; have seen a happy and
%irtuous people governed by republican, free
institutions, and fulfilling, not the destiny of
themselves alone, but of the race-and of
the world"
This may have been a dream, my son, and
as such, only, would like to impress itupon
your mind. Be blessed. my son, receive my
blessing, my dear daughter.
These were the last words of this good old
Pennsylvanian'l
MoHAMMED. above the middle
size, his figure, though spare, was handsome
and commanding, the chest broad and open,