Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-09-07
Our FOremotherS.

oul VI
We hear enough about our forealherS.
They were nice old fellows, no doubt
Perfect bricks in their way. Good to
work, eat or fight. Very we'll. BUT
where are their companions, their chums'
who. as their helpmates, urged them
along? Who worked and delved for
onr forefathers, brushed up their Old
clothes, and patched their breeches p
Who unpetticoated themselves for the
cause of liberty Who nursed our fore
fathers when sick-sang Yankee Doodle
to their babics-wbo trained up their
boys? Our foremothers.
Who landed at James River, and came
over in the Nayfo'rer, and established
the early settlements Were there any
women among them? One would think
not. Our Yankee neighbors, especially,
make wonderful talk about the Pilgrim
Fathers who squatted on Plymouth
Rock, and there is Il great ado made
over it every time they wish TO get mp
little enthusiasm on liberty, and refresh
themselves by growing over freedom: and
the chivulry Of Virginia are not a whit
behind them when they take notion to
vaunt themselves upon the glory and
greatness of the Old Dominion; and our
staid Pennsylvania Qnakers, too, like to
plume themselves slyly upon the merits
aud doings of William Penn and his as
sociates; but, with all the killarney" so
plentiful distributed on all sides, what do
You hear or gather about the foremoth-
ers . Didn't they land on a rock, too !
Didn't they encounter perllS ana hard
ships Aud, after all didn't they, with
their kiud hearts and warm arms, sustain
the tagging spirits of their male compa-
mons, and keep the stalwart but chilly
old rorefathers from freezing 10 death,
during those horrible cold winters which
some of them had to shiyer through! !
Who ushered US luto this world-our
foreiathers ? Bah No, indeed, it was
our foremothers. Who nurSed George
Washington, Anthony Wayne, benjamin
Franklin, Israel Putnam, and host OF
other worthless whose names will live tor.
ever, and taught them to be men and pa
triots? Didn't our foremothers And
who gives them the credit they deserve!
Nobody.
We have our monuments commemofa-
ting, and our speeches, our songs, our
toastS, and our public dinners, ceebra-
ting the wonderful deeds of our foretath-
ers, but where are those in honor OF our
toremotherS? We had better be getting
them ready We talk ourselves hoarse,
and write ourselves round -Shouldered
while boiling over with enthusiasm about
the nice things onr forefathers did, aud
yet nothing is said about our forcmoth-
ers, to whom many virtuous act aud
brave deed may be ascribed, such as any
hero would be proud to own. Besides,
we forget to remember that If it had not
been for our foremothers, we ourselves
would not be here to know and be proud
of what our forefathers did We wish
not to detract AL hail to the noble old
boys, our forefathers, say we. May the
glory of their deeds never be less, but the
GOOD Book tells us to 'render unto Car
sar" ETC., and wish to speak word in
season for women generally, and especial
" for our noble and self-sacrlticlng fore
mothers, lest time and the one-sided page
of history shall blot them forever from
our memories.
LITTLE Crosses. As u general thing
it may be expected that all Christians
will find themselves able to bear the
qyeoi crosses of life, because they come
with observation. they attract notice by
their very magnitude, and, by putting
the soul on its guard, give it strength to
meet them. But happy, thrice happy is
he who can bear the little crosses which
ever lie in wait and which attacks US Sc
cretly, aud without giving warning, like
u thief in the night.
DEAru.-In the .lNuntic .NonhlH DR..
| Holmes paints death thus " BY the still,
ness Of the sharpened features. by the
/ blankness Of the fearless eyes, by the
! 6xedness of the smileless mouth, by the
! deadeniny tintS by the contracted brow,
by The dilating nostril, we know that the
! soul is soon to leave its mortal tenament,
aud is already closing up its windows and
putting out its fires, y
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