The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-08-25
Communications.
NEW ENGLAND GRANDM0THERS REVIEWED.
LeOnOra EmvveIl Crfticisefh
''Our Grandfather'
For tie Potter Journal.
ST.. PAUL, MIN, Aug. 1859.

ST. PAUL, MIN, Aug. 1859.
The readers of the POTTER JOURNAL
will perceive that I have extracted the
| following quotation from sermon deliv-
cred by the Rev. AMOS CHASE some six
ty years ago, wherein he sets forth his
views concerning women and | hope to
be pardoned for Offering some views con-
cerning women, entertained by some of
the New England sons of later date, by
way of counter balance-hoping thereby
to prevent some of our young men in this
new country, who are now about taking
to themselves wives, from taking on too
many airs of superiority on account
| thereof:
"For female, therefore, to realize her de-
pendence is to build her strong tower: For
when she is defenceless, then is she invincible
Hence the relation subslstiug between hus-
band and wife, is introduced as Just repre-
sentation Of that which Subsisteth between
Christ and the Church. The Church, through
heartfelt sense Of her dependence, and by q
cheerful acknowledgment of the same, secures
the frieslslip and protection Of the dioiae
Jesus" 1.-THE female should exhibit
those amiable and excellent graces, so becom-
in women" SC. .
Mr.. EDIToR-l, being a woman, am
very sorry to have you circulate, through
the columns of your very valuable paper,
such views of women as, trust, belong
more particularly to the times in which
our Grandfathers lived, than the present
time. Rccollections of New England
graudfathers, associated with women and
children, are to me very unpleasing; and
l would have them buried with them, as
quite unsuited to our day of peace and
progress, if not altogether discarded. l
cannot say of them as DR.. Johnson did
Of ghosts, when asked if he was afraid of
them, that he had "seen too many to be
afraid of them" 1t is just because J.
hare seen so many of them, that | am
afraid of them; and | would much rather
meet a ghost, in the darkest night, at the
witching hour of twelve, than some that
[ have known who were called very good
men. I hope you will not feel shocked,
when | tell you that it makes a terrible
seething ond boiling in my usually quiet
veins, to hear about New England Grand
fathers, and my indignation is especially
aroused when they so complacently com-
pare themselves to the fdjuine Jesus"
I, too, like yourself, had a New Eng
land Grandfather; one to lie proud of to
be sure, in some respects, and one to be
ashamed of, in regard to his opinions of
women and children. He was born, liv-
ed and died, in the village of B; was
Of course well known by his neighbors,
who freely and justly accorded to him the
reputation of being honest and generous /;
possessed of good, solid sense, and excel
lent judgment; "his word" he seemed
proud to say, "was as good as the law of
the land" and his Pennsylvania Grand
daughter, found upon visiting her fathers
native town, that the name she had in
herited was better passport than gold
to its chest society.
This man had inherited a small prop
erty (Which had descended from father
to son since the first settlement of the
place. sufficient to supply the moderate
wants of an immoderately large family !;
so that it had not been necessary for him
to wait till the arrival of that undesirable
period which "the young man John"
speaks of, before he could afford 10 take
to himself wife. He had accordingly
selected, from one of the best families in
B, one who was possessed of piety,
good health and good mind, and was
much beloved by her friends and ac-
quaintances; and their union was, in due
course of time, blessed with seven sons
and seven daughters. He, too, likened
himself unto the "diviAe Jesus" in being
head and ruler; but instead of ruling il
accordance with the laws of love, as did
Jesus, it would be much nearer the truth
to say he ruled with rod of irsa,