try, for the world; the champion of right against expediency, is the spirit by which her highest triumphs have been won. The son looks for the wife after the model of his mother, so that the women of America now may be said to control the destinies of ages yet unborn! "How do you manage to rear your family, with your infidel husband ?" said a distinguished minister of our country. "I never oppose the father's authority by the mother's, but always with that of God."

What honor can woman expect when she ceases to honor her country? what hope can woman have, when she has ceased to cherish her Bible? Then, without saintly or prophetic pretension, let her take her eye instead of a telescope, and, from knot to knot, from flower to seed, from seed to kernel, realize Truth as her first and last mission in free America; let her second the wish and the heart of man in all his holy work; with the creed of Milton's Eve, let her feel, "God is thy law, thou mine!”

When the excitement of the "Stamp Act" was inflaming all sections of the Colonies, the daughter of Dr. Franklin wrote her father thus: "The subject is Stamp Act,' and nothing else; the Dutch talk of 'Stamp tack,' the negroes of the 'tamp;' in short, everybody has something to say." O, cannot the introduction of Rome's intolerant Popery so affect us, · that news-boys, market-women, cooks, butlers, and dairy-maids, hotels, boulevards, and public squares may feel it a real and tangible evil, and not a skipping ghost? The patriot women of '76 drank tea

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no longer than the taxes were imposed; they denounced it as a bitter, baneful weed. Can't American women feel their soul's errand strong enough to lead others into the ghastly insight of Papal tyranny? "Liberty, property, and no stamp," may now give place to "Liberty, the Bible, and no Popery." Where is the blood of those noble spirits, who, amidst unparalleled suffering and toil, taught their sons to honor God, their country, and their manhood? Where are the descendants of that Christian woman who opened her purse to Gen. Greene, after the battle of Cowpens, and surrendered the produce of her toil to her suffering country? Where those of that southern daughter, who came at the soldier's call, and with powder in her apron freighted afresh their ammunition, and when sought, was found upon her knees at prayer? Where those of that matron, who, after giving her garments for cartridges, stood at the guns when husband and brothers had fallen? Where is the spirit of Pocahontas, who saved Virginia by her heavenly heroism? Where that noble woman, who, under an inspiration of conjugal and patriotic devotion, rode through an unsettled country at night, and entered the camp in time to dress the wounds of her dying husband, whose fate she had surmised?

No screen can hide the light—no snuffers can bring us to the darkness which has too long misled America; and the quadrupedal idea that salvation and intelligence are at war, must be exposed. It is to suppress and exterminate the thought, that the government of

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Rome, and not the Constitution of the United States, governs America-it is to fling back in their faces all this painting, whooping, and tattooing, to unpack their varnished and encrusted subtlety, to heal the erysipelas which is spreading its contagion over the nation, that the true influences of Gospel Liberty are now sought to be diffused.

We want no Joans of Arc to make America vascular and alive; but when Popes, Cardinals, and Bishops have rendered her risky and ticklish, we want faithful and true women, who neither shriek nor protest, but pray; women who neither mount nor sink; who are neither heroines nor fools; but American women, who can stand in their shoes, and take the plain topic of the Bible, and discourse and diffuse it to the depths of the people.

Our gratitude must be shown in acting out farther and farther what our ancestors began. They did not design that their work should be regarded as an absolute thing-like the world's creation, which was perfected when it was finished-but spreading their Protestant Bible and their American Constitution of government on the wings of the American Eagle, they left us to burst its pinions, and soar towards the Sun.