Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-08-03
REMOVAL OF WESTINGHOUSE REMAlNS-MOUNT
VERNON EMPTY.

IL! il be TO some other part oi our own OoWWon-
wealth.
REMOVAL OF WESTINGHOUSE RE"MAlNS-MOUNT
VERNON EMPTY.
"There is a report that Mr.. John A. Washington designs
TO remove the remains of the Father oi his Country from
Mount Vernon, previous 10 the trarsicr OF the properly 10
the ladies OF the Mount Vernon Association. we are pre-,
pared Tor any manifestation of meannets upon ,he part OF
that individual Af'er the cane speculation, ana Tue exor'
bitan. demands he has made upon Il patriotic Association,
we are ready TO believe that he would even sell the bones
OF his illustrious ancestor TO some curious anstomist.,-
The cbiei object of the proposed purchase 10 tosecure the
tomb of Washington from injury. Mount Vernon is Of
little iuterest to the Association without II"
The above appeared in the Philadelphia "Evening
Jourpal" of Thursday, and was the eubject OF edito
rial comment in the Courier aud Enquirer" Of Fri
dsy-the tone and temper of which may be Inferred
som the following extract:
I'VE are well aware how just the feeling of indigna.
ton is against the brute in human form bearing the name
of Washington, who has openly trHiicked In the mortal
remains OF the great Pd:er Patrid; and yet we indulge tue
hope that contempt for the wretch who sells the bones Of
Washington tor two hundred thousand dollars, instead OF
gladly accepting ten thousand for the ground and tomb
NJ being more than their value, will not prevent the cti
zeus OF tLis State cheeriully contributing to the proposed
purchase. In truth, the simple fact that the present owner
OF Mount Vernon is bent upon making money out OF the
bones of Washington, instead OF preventing our giving
freely, should be an incentive TO prompt and energetic
action He is in the market with HE goods; and If the
people of the United States do no; purchase, what euaran-
~ have they that these sacred relics will not be sold with.
in a month of the failure to pay the next instal,nent, to
some collector OF curiosities Tor L ,ndon or Paris'
'This is no Imaginary coming ,ncy. We consider 1t a
demonstrated fact, that the press 1t owner OF Mount Yer.
non is bent upon putting money n his purse, from a sale
Washingt pns Bones; ana if Amer can. refuse TO give him
his price, he will most assuredly Up them to Europe Tor
a market.
On the 9Th of April last a contract, legally obliga
tory in all respects, was made with the proprietor Of
Mount Vernon, for the purchase Of the two hundred
acres desired, embracing, as they supposed, not only
the home and tomb OF washington, buildings
wharves. etc but the remains of the deceased patriot,
for two hundred thousand dollars. Eighteen thousand
dollars were paid down in cash. Fiftyseven thousand
dollars are to be paid on or before January lst, 1859.
and the remainder in three equal annual Instruments,
on the 22d Of February, 1861, 1861, 1862, with the
privilege OF paying The whole amount, due at any
time, upon giving thirty days notice.
The Vice Regent Of this State, Mics Mary Morris
Hamilton, OF Westchsster county, is assisted BY a
standing committee of ladies, by lady managers in all
the large towns and cities Of the State, who are
collecting subscriptions, and by an advisory committee
of gentlemen. The office Of the association in this
city is in the Cooper Institute, Astor Place.
"LADIEs' STANDING CoMaITTEE.-Mrs Willard
Fillmore, Buffalo Mrs Pierre Van Cortlsndt, Croton;
Mrs William II Seward, Auburn; Mrs Gouverneur
Morris, Morrissania Mrs Washington Hunt, Lock
port; Mrs Samuel Stevens, Rochester; Mrs Horatio
Seymour, Utica; Mrs Johnston Livingston, Living
ston Mrs g s Silliman, Brooklyn; Mrs Edward
Cooper, New York Mrs Andrew j Downing, Fish
kill Mrs George Bancroft, New York Mrs John
Sherwood, do; Mrs Charles 2 Daily, do; Mrs Mar
shall 0 Roberts, do; Mrs Lewis NJ Rutherford, do
Nlo OoHd u8uOklCkOI, uOI uiS w "a L tht wv Hhio
G NJ Kirkland, do; Mrs Edward NJ Smith, Albion
| Mrs Herman u Gould, Delhi; Miss Susan Fennimore
Cooper, Cooperstown; Mrs George X Bsbcock, Botfa
10 Mrs Robert j Lsnsing, Waterslown; Mrs Ed
ward Schnor, Troy"
The question now arises whether our people want
Mount Vernon without Washingtou's remains, aud if
they do, whether they will get them with their deedi
The above we fad in the "New York Evening
Post and, without authority, We venture to contra
dict the statement therein contained, relative to re-
moving the remains. Mr.. John A. Washington, OF
Mount Vernon, ia q gentleman Of the highest charac
ter and virtue. and throughout the entire negotiation
for Mount Vernon has evinoed the greatest liberality.
Had be been the mercenary creature represented by
these papers he would never have sacrificed the very
large offers made TO him by yankee companies, whose
sole object was a speculation on the love for Wash
iugton. The maintaining Mount Vernon as a place
for free public resort bad nearly impoverished MIR.
Washington, and the price for which he has sold the
place is greatly below what he has frequently been
offered for it, by spectators, and much less than it
would have brought in the market. As for removing
the remains from Mount Vernon, that is simply a
yankee "rumor' worthy of no credit whatever.
$500 O.
THE BIRTH PLACE OF ANDREW JACKSON.
The following letter, which we find in the Charles
town "Spirit Of j Jefferson" is from ona of the most
intelligent and respectable gentlemen in that portion
of the State, and will be Rad with much interest by
! the people Of the whole Union.
The singular array Of circumstances, carrying al
most the weight of facts, which the writer produces,
| will be read with very great interest:
ALToSA, July l, 1863.
To Henry 4. lrtss, GopernOr Of Virginia:
Dear Sri write to make some suggestions, rela-
tive to the policy lately adopted by Virginia, as 10 her
monument to Washington and the surrounding STA.
| ,uary. THE Inauguration Of which, On the 22d Of Fe-
| bruary, l attended at which time l mentioned 10
several my hope TO see Virginia collect the remains OF
her great sons of the revolution at Richmond, and
its location. The statue il dwarfcb-is wanting in
| that msguifcence which should chalaeteris- what is
done by Virginia-at least equal her Inuniicence in
bestowing on the Union, her Western Empire, em
b-aoiug Ohio, Illinois. ~IDdiana. Michigan and Wis
consin. The determination by Virginia to remove
the remains of the late Col. Monroe from their rest.
ing place in New York, TO the coil Of the Old Domin-
ion, gave determination To my views.
was opposed TO the erection of a monument by
| Virginia, to any one. knowing hos this apparent
gratitude in the Old Republics had been abused, in
erecting TO Demsgog1-s and Tyran;s monuments
similar, nay superior, far surprising ihose erected
TO the patriotic. / had preferred the monument
erected in the breast Of Virginia to HE greatest sou,
10 any of stone, however costly, assuring myself
that no other could come in competition with him
in the affections OF Virginia. But as We are embark
I'd In this monumental aud removing matter, IL, Us
collect in Richmond the remairs Of her great soEs
Of the revoluiion-her mighty dead, whOss genius
and energy electrified the world-shook d%eapotism
10 lite foundation, aud erected here, in this land Of
cure, a Temple 10 Liberty. aud IN Asylum for the
oppressed of all nations. Let their remains be con-
~gregated in one place, apart from othere. In other
days-amongst powerful nations who have passed 10
eternity, almost obliterated from the records OF HIS.
tory, they would have been deit -d-and those nations
g~lorified in their apo,heosis- Virginia had sons. great
-. -ll-~a -, Afkar ara IN IN DIN
whose remains l would ask permission from the
States they adorned. 10 remove and locate III the con-
.te!lstion in Richmond. | would have James Nad;-
sou there, though but a young actor at the time, he
grew 80 immediately, and great on the finish OF
the revolution 10 be a child OF it. l would Seek
nut the remains Of George Rogers Clarke and An
drew Jackson, the latter Of whom | claim las tie
first undoubtedly was.) 90, to me, undoubted Hi
shority, as a child Of Virginia. born in Berkeley
county, on the estate Of James Strobe. | claim his
birth for Virginia, on the declaration OF the late
Mrs.. Shepherd, the relic of the late Captain Abra'
ham shepherd, and Mrs. Bedinger, the wife OF the
late Major Henry Bedlnger, of Berkeley county
These gentlemen were officers in the army of the
revolution. These ladies were respectively married,
Mrs. Shepherd in the early part OF the revolution,
and Mrs. Bedinger, a youi ger sister, at the oonclu.
sion. The war of 1877 gave TO Gen. Jackson, ce
lsbtity, aud the question of nativity was started,
and among those advanced in HE. who remained in
Berkeley and Jefferson taken therefrom, at that
period, were those ladies, from whom / learned that
an irirn family named Jackson, came to their ia
;here g, ihe late james Strods, somewhere about the
year NV " "nnm their father iurnished a small
tenement and gave employment-that they were
then young girls-that about 1864 or IS, a sou wss
born to that family, who they named A~ndrew-thHt
hey had two other sons oldsr-thst being thsn-
selves without brothers, they, with their two elder
sisters, sought and obtained III. cons.n, of their
| rather and mother. when in 1868 the Jachson. wera
making arrangements to em,graie to the waxhsw
| settlement. in North Carolins. to obtain from III.
| Jacksops their youugest son, Andrew, to be raised
az a bruthsr-but were unable 30 10 do. though they
| went some five miles on the road, importOnius-
the Jsckscns were poor, the Strodes having all that
could be desired, 1t seems as IT the hand ut destiny