Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-11

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Below we republish from the Charleston
Cburier extracts from a recent publication by
the ..SoutJtern Matrony::
That ,coman-notwithstan the peculiar
views of Mr.. WASHINGTON, which induced
course disastrous to her continuous and
successful operations and awakened all the
prejudice and depression arising therefrom-
should have the power. through the high and
holy mission she has taken on herself, to wiring
from the heart of this whole nation an almost
unanimous need of applause, and in spite of
the doubt that Virginia would accede to the
requisition of Mr.. WASHINGTON that the purchase
from him must be made by the State-that
she should induce the Magician of the nation
to give his time, his eloquence "a mine OF
gold for her holy purposes) nay, to consecrate
his life to her work-that she should cause
ladies of the highest position in State after
State. TO devote their all until the end was
gained some in their self-sacriiicing patriotism
undertaking the charge of entire States, and
of enlsting and arousing every county in
them-that she should enlist gentlemen first
in standing and in intellect to volunteer to
become her Knights, to aid in the rescue of
Mt Vernon, and, in emulation of the exam
ple of the famous Knights Templar of old,
vow themselves henceforth to the charge of
its future interest;-that she should have had
the power to do this, is tribute of which she
may well be proud; and, more than that,
these signs are guarantee that it needs but
time TO develope the appreciating love and
reverence for Washington which is the noble
,adey-stTdtHm of the American character. Wo-
man asks but for time to hew out Of uis pc
destal for the most glorious monument to
manly worth the world has ever known.
"Rome was not built in day." our glori-
Gus Republic was not won in ''two or three
years. Nay, not in five-the. time guaran-
teed to the Mount Vernon Association by their
charter. Would it ever have been a Republic
if the paIiots of that day had refused to COM
mence revolution until all the mOney Of lis
imaginable cost had been contributed beforehand?
Yet there were doubters then, who regarded
the most glorious undertaking of man, as a
"vagary'-a mistaken enthusiasm "a dub
ble," mischievous, if not ''beautiful ~ We
hope, for the honor and credit of the Old Do
minion, that there are none such in the pres
ent General Assembly-guardans IN Hiis mat
ter of her reputation for all time. On their de-
cision nosc in reference to the sacred ashes of
the Father of his Country, the lrOrld for all time,
,cH Sh IN Judgment.
The Association from the beginning until
now has encountered an accumulation of diff
| fculties calculated TO appal even ,conadn, not
only from causes TO which we have alluded,
but from those arising from individuals not
| gifted with patriot hearts or the sagacity OF
| Statesmen to perceive that our enterprise was
not ''imDracticable, or was something more
| than a "yagarv," the end of which might be a
"bubbler' The public will certainly never
| accuse Mr.. WASHINGTON of ''amiable enthusI-
! asm" or of acting from the impulses of sentl-
ment; yet we had only to place our views be-
! fore him to induce him to reconsider his deter
mination "never to give Virginia another OPP
portunity to purchase. Mount Vernon from
/ him."
! Such had been the effect of his letter in
| Nav 1856 Withdrawing the estate from sale, y
that. between Indignation and despair, and a
| widespread doubt that we cOnld ever Obtain
Mount Vernon nearly all we had gained was
lost, and little of the money collected was left
unreturned by those who had, of course. the
power to do ft-for ours is II voluntary work
! When therefore, in March last eleven months
after this letter we announced to the public
| through the correspondence of Mr.. Richie
and Mr. Washington, that Mount Vernon
| could be obtained through Virginia, and that
the Mount Vernon Association, 10y paying the
! purchase money, could convert it into and be-
come its guardians as national shrine, we
! had to commence our work anew and to aC-
complish the HcrcuIean task of re-kindling
! cNtinguished fires and Mt the most inauspiciOus
! of all seasOns-SUmmcr-and then To encOun-
| ter "A financial crisis under which the world il
| still trembling; yet with all this To encounter,
! the Mount Vernon Association has gained
! State after State, has drawn aud is drawing
! out ardent laborers, inspired with the spirit
| of &c. and gallant Knights who, in their
''amiable enthusiasm" are canvassing their
| States to bring the cause home to the know
| ledge aud the hearts of that class who will
/ not value gold when the sacred ashes of the
! Father of their Country are conccrned;-and
! last but not least, the noble brotherhood OF
Masons who will come up in solid phalanX to
work FOR HIM, 1.-The bright. particular star" OF
| their armament.
| As Mount Vernon can only be obtained for
| the nation through the fundamentally of Nir-
ginia. and AT the time, in the form, and upon the
! terms which Mr.. WASHINGTON ineXorably re-
| quirrs they do ask that Virginia will comply
with these, and issue those printed scraps OF
paper which, if unredcemod mdy touch her
Treasury hirfy.fo'r ytdrs hence, and in return
for this the ladies propose to give her two
hundred thousand dollars, from which she can
derive a temporary benefit-no disad, antagtr'
Onc-iOurth of this sum We can put at her dis
posal mar; and, if the greater part of this has
! been collected in Il few months under every
| disadvantage, we do not doubt that, with our
! increasing forces and Frightening prospects,
! the remainder of the two hundred thousand
! will be ready for her acceptance by the I'D
! of February. 1889.
To alay any doubts of the timid on the
score of losses by interest money due semi-an-
nually, We pledge its payment in advance.
! In conclusion, we can but state that our
sense OF justice makes Us realize that the pub
! lie are, and ever have been, unjust to Mr.
| WASHINGTON. If the nation desires to have
| Mount Vernon as IA national shrine for its
! benefit and qualification. il is the nations duty
to Bahe so, and not, pauper-like, to ask il OF
! Mr. WASHINGTON as aims 10 national sentiment
! We know that Mr.. WASHINGTON had an oppOr-
! tunty To realize three hundred thousand dol.
lars at private sale, and therefore we feel he
has done his part by placing one hundred
! thousand on the altar of-sentiment. We now
! ask the nation to do theirs.
| 4 SOUTHERN MATRON,
Prcst Of the Mount Vernon Association of the Onion
JANrNRY 9th 1855