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Excerpt from An Appeal for the Future Preservation: Of the Home and Grave of Washington Ladies, to the rescue! Manufacturing speculators have offered 200,000 for Mount Vernon - that spot, dear, as it should be, to all American hearts, is to be sold to the highest bidder! An American Congress has virtually declined to purchase it, and Virginia, who holds within her boundaries the sacred ashes of our Washington, joins in the refusal; and it now behooves the women of the nation to come forward to its rescue. Some months since, a noble-hearted, patriotic "southern matron" perceived the grandeur and the feasibility of raising funds for its purchase by the ladies; and nobly have her southern sisters seconded her efforts. And, while the sacred, solemn spot, where Washington prayed, and died, and was buried - which awes into reverence even the foreigner, and causes his heart to thrill with emotion - while this is in danger, shall we of the North stand idly by and permit his home to be sacrificed upon the altar of Mammon, forever to resound with the din of hammers, and vibrate with the clatter of the loom and the wheel? That the pure air it was his delight to breathe when he went forth to meditate shall become thick and black with an eternal smoke, as if it were the entrance to Hades's self? Let us rise as one woman, and, in the strength of our united womanhood, decide that this shall not be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."