Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-05-05
From the Richmond Wing.
Anna Pamela Cunningham.

Poets and orators have combined their
sweetest strains of song and adulation-
have exhausted all the figures of rhetoric and
hyparbole-to portray, in colors sufficiently
brilliant, the fame and glory of our immortal
Washington. His deeds have been the theme
OF the most thrilling and, withal. the most
touching eloquence ever produced in our
country. Monuments, some of which tower
in ajestic grandeur towards the clouds. have
been raised by the hands of art to coEImem-
crate his worth. And yet, notwithstanding
all this. there is one thing that the men who
have ridden with him in the hour of battle,
and those whose tongues have grown eloquent
eloquent as if their lips had been touched,
with divine fre-in depicting his virtues, and
the duties which we, his blood-bought chill
dren, owe to the memory of those virtues,
have omitted. And that is the rescuing of
his grave and home from obscurity. Mount
Vernon has, until few weeks since, been
the property of private individual. Even
the Mussulmen are entitled to more credit, in
this respect, than we are. They have the
remains of their Prophet deposited in splen-
did sepulchre, ornamented with all the taste
and workmanship of the most skilltul work
men of the East; and the sarcophagus is cree
ted in the city of Mecca, and held sacred and
consecrated to the exemplar of their faith.
Towards the tomb of the Prophet every true
Mahomedan kneels, when he prays to Allah.
the god of the Faithful.
Every good Mussuman Is bound to make ut
least one pilgrimage to the shrine of the Pro-
phet during his life, else he is not considered
worthy to enter the heaven of his fathers, and
be there caressed by the houri of that blessed
! place. Though we would disdain. with in
dignant scorn, the idea of drawing IA compar-
ison between Mahomet and George WASH
ington, still the picture is faithful one, when
view, in the light of the comparative res
peet with which the ashes of the two men are
treated.
But, though all the efforts of man to
secure the grave of Washington as the pro
perry of the nation failed, yet there was still
a ray Of hope behind. Woman had NOT yet
raised her voice In b hell of the cause. The
time had now arrived, however when she
must make an effort. That effort has been
made, and made with abundant success. To
Anna Pam In Cunningham-ycicpt 'the
Southern Matronn-belongs the honor of
having originated the scheme which has result
cd in the accomplishment OF what the men Of
America had failed 60 accomplish. Ii Craw-
ford has rendered his name Immortal with all
the worth OF Washington" has not she, the
virgin mother Of this most immaculate con-
ceptioni also claims on the Am rican people
which even time itself cannot wipe OUT Is
she not entitled to the most sacred niche In the
temple OF American heroes and heroines!
Miss Cunningham Is said TO be an invalid.
and but little given 10 gaiety. Her thoughts
are fixed on things higher than the mere graz
ificetion OF sense. She IL busy laboring for
the ashes Of her country's father! What a
| successful refutation do we here have Of the
charge that woman never originated any thing
truly great Sh. has originated aud ezyriof
oaa the grandest aud proadest enterprise our
eouutry's history can ever boast OF. IL there
an American who shall hereafter think of
Washington. and not also call to mind the
name OF Anna Pamela Cunningha9a-the
Southern Matron!