Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-02-04

i nope YOU VIII puDilsh out OF justice,
as you have published one side, and you be-
lieve in free discussion. ..
A late number Of the American contains
an appeal to the Women Of Hancock Coun-
ty, for contributions to the funds of the
"dount Vernon Ladies' Association of the
Union, to purchase, repair, preserve and
forever retain, possession of the Mt. Yer
non Estate, once the residence of Washing
ton, &C., &C., &C."
As one of the women to whom this appe al
is made, I wish, as the public speakers say,
"to make few brief remarks"
Somebody, I believe the Editor of the
New York Tribune, remarked that "this as
ISOLATION, like politics, makes strange bed
fellows" and for example noticed the con-
nection of Edward Everett with that funny
clap-trap paper, the New York Ledger; and
he might with gr,at truth have said, that it
makesestrange havoc with the views of those
nice conservative gentlemen, who with such
precision and perfectness set the bounds Of
woman sphere" How can these chival-
rous gentlemen endure to see the women of
this nation, leaving their "home duties"
and devoting their time to raising money to-
purchase Mount Vernon? How it must hurt
their delicate perceptions, to see the names
OF wives, mothers, daughters and sisters para
ded in the public prints, and as if this was
not enough to have them declare in their ap-
peals, that "this is within the reserved rights
of woman ~
wonder that in these days of conven-'
tons, these chiyalrous gentlemen don't hold
one. to enable them to send Edward Everett
copy of Resolutions assuring him, that they
appreciate the high motives which induced
him to descend from tine North American
Review to the New York Ledger, and stat
ing the sacrifices they too had made, when
with fresh chalk in hand they marked out
anew. and enlarged one corner of woman's
sphere. aud delegated to her right which
the constitution does not to Congress. How
his heart would beat with sympathy. and
he would send back the consolIng reflection
GLOW much patriotism does cost -
Would that the Women of Hancock Coun-
ty, with all due gratitude for this patriotic
spirit which accedes to them this right.
would engage 'ln higher and boiler work
than building monuments, or gathering up
he sacred memories Of the dead" While
this country who claims Washington for its
iather, holds three millions of human beings
as chattels; while the first Orator" who,
to aid in this work of ''rescuing from desc
Grafton the tomb Of Washington" goes
round the country 10 tell us about Washing
ton, and forgcts to tell us that he, though he
held slaves, did utter anti-slayery senti-
ments while mothers have no right to per-
sonal liberty, no power to hold their chill
dren, no control over their own property,
and woman has no voice in making laws BY
which she is governed, taxed without be-
ing represented, the women of Hancock
County had better by far be engaged in
planting within their bos1ms the seeds of tho
7arf OF thoss principles of liberty to which
Washington life was devoted, than contrib
uting money to aid in making sacred the
place where his bones lie.
Let us contribute our efforts mot to prevent
dssecratins hands from touching Washing
tons last resting place, but to purge our
country from the gigantic sin of Slavery
which oar fathers hanled down t. us, and
which has and viii curse us, until we in
practice As we'll Us words dccllr., ..all IN n
are created free and equal AMI sc jvcrn-
ments derive their just powers from the con
sent of the gorerr'e'i, thus placing the wo-
man and the negro On an equal political ba-
sis with free white male citizens.
n WOMAN OF Hancock County.