The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1858-02-18

l"N''S 'h'hcs, Couu CONVERT IL INTO ana
become It's guardians as q national shrine,
we hal to commence our work ancw and
to accomplish the IIcrculean task Of re-
k'nding rx'inguishcd fires, and ut the most
inan>pic!ous of all Northumberland
then to encounter Il financial crisis under
which the world is still trembling; vet with
all this to encounter, the Mount Vernon
Association has gained State after State,
has drawn, and is drawing out ardent Ia.
b"rrrs, inspired will, the spirit of &c, and
";'an, Knights who, in their "amiaL!c en-
'hn>;a>m,' are canvas>ing their States to
h'In" the cause home to the knowledge
AMI To the hearts of that class who will not
value gold when the sacred ashes" of the
Father Of their Country arc concerned
md last, but not least, the noble brother
! hood Of Masons who will come up in solid
l'!'''a"x to work for him, 'he bright, par
ticular star" Of their armament.
We Indignantly repcl the imputation that
the Mount Vernon Association, through its
President, has come before the Legislature
i" 'Jorm" 1'"upcris.' Paupcrs =. We adj
mlre the amiahii'y Of conveying the ins,n-
uallon i'll DEAD language.
The lamentations of The Editor of "Tho
south over the exhausted Treasury Of Vir-
"'nh' are quite touching, and have so en-
listed our svmnathics that we rejoice to
assure him, and the guardians of the Treas
ury OF Virginia, .!,;,t the ladies' have not
and Il" not a-k for one dollar from her
! "imp"v"ri>lrI c,!lrr>." but, as Mount Yer
non can only tie obtained for the nation
through '!!" in>tr,'mcntaIi'y OF Virginia and
at Me ftm", in the form, IN upon tho
terms whi"! Mr.. Washington incxorably
requires. they 'o ask that Virginia will COM
ply with these and issue those printed
scraps of paper, which, unrcdccneL, may
touch her treasury Mirty ,1our gears hence,
and i'll return for this the ladies propose to
give her two hundred thousand dollars,
from which she can derive a temporary
hcncfit-no disadvantage to an exhausted
Treasury! One fourth of this sum we can
put at her disposal now, and, if the greater
part of this has been collected in a few
months under every disadvantage, we do
not doubt that, with our increasing forces
AMI Frightening prospects, the remainder of
the two hundred thousand will be ready
for her acceptance by the ed Of February,
1859
TO allay any doubts Of the timid on the
score Of losses by interest money due
scm'-annually, we pledge its payment in ad-
vance. ,.
In conclusion, we can but state that our
sense Of justice makes us realize that tho
public are, and ever have been, unjust to
Mr.. Washington. If the nation desire to
have Mount Vernon as = national shrine
for lis benefit and qualification, it is the ia
tons duty to make II so, and not paupcr
like, TO ask it of Mr.. Washington, as aims
to national sen imcnt. We know that Mr..
Washington had an opportunity to reaizo
three hundred thousand dollars by private
| sale, and, therefore we feel he has done his
part by placing one hundred thousand dol.
lars on the altar of sentiment We now
ask the nation to do theirs.
A SOUTHERN MATRON.
President of the Mount Vernon Association
OF the Union.
January 9th, 1858.
The Voice of Me Dcod .Nutions.-Mr.
Alger, in his recent celebrated oration, ut
'ercl the following impressive passage,
which ought to be written on the stature
books of every State in the Union:
Tho dead nations, whose giant skeletons
now lie bleaching on the sands of time, all
died Of sin. 1t was their crimes that due
their graves and pushed them in. Licen-
tou- luxury sapped The foundation strength
and ro;tcd the live virtue of one, and it dis
appeared beneath the green pool of its own
corruption. Brutal war, made business
Of and carried in every direction, drew upon
another the combined wrath of tho world,
and it was dashed upon the rock Of its own
| barbarous force. Domestic bondage, grown
enormous, trodden under foot and goaded to-
madness, rose on another, and hurried it in
the conhagration and slaughter of its OWL
provocation. Internal an,ipathies, bashete
on sectional difference, fed byssclfsh inter-
est and taunling debate, fnalIyexpIoded in
the quarrelsome parties Of another, and
hurled its discovered fragments to ruin by
the convulsive eruption Of its own wrong
and hatred OF all tho mighty empires
whose melancholy ghosts now pace tile PAL,
lid margin Of oblivion, not one ever sunk
but its fall was through internal iniquity, in
some way or othor. Shall the stately shade
of America, too. 60 down ojoin the doleful
company ofcrowned spectres, moving them