Year: 1859

these passages contain most foul and SIAN
derous imputation, which, if untrue, might
subject the author to heavy damages in a
suit for SANDER, and if true, by commission
and conviction, would subject the younger
brethren to the severest penalties, bringing
disgrace upon all, old and young. Charles
is the daug ghter and is but the colonial Off
spring of our beloved and venerable mother
st. <Mary's; and nothing is more fully set
tied by all experience, historical and natural,
than that traits of character, individually
and nationally, are the offspring of training
and particularly of naaternal training. Those
decisive battles which gave the supremacy
to particular and superior race, enabled
that race to send out colonies to distant and
different lands, carrying with them the no.
BILE traits of the mother country-the traits
of patriotism, energy, integrity and love OF
learning, and not of incidence, poverty and
crime. The glorious and decisive battle OF
Marathon gave the ascendency to freedom
and enabled the mother country Greece to
send out learned, talented, manly and pro-
gressive colonies, not only all along the
shores of the Mediterranean, but to extend
their influence to the remotest part of the
world. The Metaurus again enabled the
Romans to achieve the conquest of the world
and to scatter broadcast and with profuse
and liberal hand over every country, the
seeds Of manliness, indomitable energy,
learning, general literature, and, above all
the excellence of a superior jurisprudence.
A proposition and its converse are equally
true alike in morals and mathematics; and
if in the first great struggle for freedom be-
tween the Grecians and the Persians the
latter had conquered, the world at this day
might have been subject to the sway of des-
potism, sloth, poverty, degradation and
crime. The character of all colonies has
been that Of the mother country, of the
truth Of which our own glorious and free
country furnishes 81 gnal and triumphant
illustration. Is it true then that the char
acter of our venerable, and, as made out by
you, infamous mother, has, by the force of
training, been able to present to the contemp-
tuous gaze of the world colonial offspring
infamous for poverty and crime?


-s1iAu4 this lams maternal influence by
training operates, not only nationally, but
individually-and in the individual sphere
with most imperative force. I have sin
cerely believed ever since I was capable of
investigating the subject, historically and
naturally, that woman is the most perfect
machinery of all Gods animate creation.-
Inspiration wisely and correctly informs us,
she was the last animate being created and
truly the Divine Architect exerted the ut
most of his architectural skill for her per-
feet formation-perfect formation in beauty
Of stature, in aptness to teach, in quickness
of intuitive perception, in clearness and in
tensity of spiritual discernment, and in that
ready and apt capability of moulding and
fashioning the intellectual, spiritual and
moral character Of her offspring, for which
she has been, experimentally, so peculiarly
fitted and distinguished in all ages, and all
countries, and in every sphere. It is not
the bold, pert, impudent woman that has
acquired the renown of this earth, or wrought
such consequences in the destiny of man as
to recreate, energize his nature and elevate
his position. All the great and useful rev.
olutions of the earth have been due primari-
ly to the influence of the mother as unfolded
in the career and character of the sons and
this has been achieved by the mother who
has ever maintained her appropriate place
of elegant and virtues retreat, where quietly
and unobtrusively she has effected an infu-
sion of those noble principles which have
wrought such glorious consequences in the
worlds career. There is more of truth
than poetry in the following simple but
beautiful sentiment of the Poet:


'.Seek to be good but aim not to be great;


Woman's nobest station is retrea at:


Her fairest virtues fly from public sight


Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light -
It is universally conceded and taught, his
torically, geographically and naturally, that
all the great men of the earth have owed
their character and career to the peculiar
training of the mother-to that training
which has fixed indelibly her own impress
upon her son, and in his achievement of
great deeds he only exhibited to the world
what she was. Alexander the Great
throughout his successful and violent, though
useless, career, gave clear illustration of the
impressions, which he had received from
the unscrupulous and strong minded char
acter OF his mother; and one of the sim
plest though noblest epitaphs ever inscribed
on tomb stone is to be found inscribed
on that of the great and good Calhoun
simply, "Here lies John Caldwell Calhoun,
the son of Patrick Calhoun and Martha
Caldwell" He is said, by all who knew
them, to have been peculiarly the son of his
mother-in strength Of mind, energy and
firmness Of purpose. and in intense love of
truth. Through him her character must
60 down to the last generation of men as
finished model of woman's worth and excel
lence. The renowned Jewish lawgiver was
undoubtedly indebted mainly to woman for
those noble traits of character which have
rendered him the admiration of the world,