Please read this...Abigail Adams would look nice on $10 bill

<p class="p1">Perhaps you've heard the "news," and some of the discussion/debate/madness which has surrounded said "news."</p><p class="p1">Seems that there's an effort afoot to change the image which appears on our $10 bill. Quick. Whose mug is on the $10 bill? </p><p class="p1">And you can't look. I tried that. Didn't have any $10 bills in my wallet. Would two $5 bills work? Quick. Whose mug is on the $5 bill?</p><p class="p1">The $10 bill features a portrait of Alexander Hamilton, who might have been born in 1757. Or, maybe 1755. And he wasn't even born in this country. Wonder if he could have become such an important figure in American history if he had been born in today's political climate?</p><p class="p1">Hamilton was born in the West Indies, and was a young man with a lot of initiative. He ended up in America, just in time for that little tiff we had with the British. Hamilton served as the nation's first secretary of the Treasury, so I guess it would be appropriate that his portrait is on the $10 bill.</p><p class="p1">Quite honestly, it would not bother me if a woman's face ended up on our nation's currency. I'm kind of partial to Abigail Adams, who was the wife of John Adams.</p><p class="p1">Mrs. Adams was a bit of a woman ahead of her times. She raised a family. She worked the family farm in Massachusetts. And she had to worry about the British Army. </p><p class="p1">She also wrote letters to her husband. Lots of letters. In early 1776, Mr. Adams had gone away to Philadelphia to serve in the Continental Congress. </p><p class="p1">In one of her letters, Mrs. Adams even made a rather bold suggestion to her other half:</p><p class="p1">"I long to hear that you have declared an independancy-and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.</p><p class="p1">"That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend. Why then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity. Men of Sense in all Ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your Sex. Regard us then as Beings placed by providence under your protection and in immitation of the Supreem Being make use of that power only for our happiness."*</p><p class="p2">Wow. "Remember the Ladies." In 1776, when most of the Ladies pretty much stayed at home.</p><p class="p2">To be honest with you, I have not heard Abigail Adams mentioned as a possible choice to replace Mr. Hamilton on the $10 bill. Perhaps her name might come up.</p><p class="p2">In the meantime, allow me to have a little bit of "fun" with a few other possibilities:</p><p class="p1">Dolley Madison: She had spunk. And a really short husband, which really doesn't matter.</p><p class="p1">Mary Todd Lincoln: Well, because she was the wife of a fellow from Illinois who made a bit of a mark on our nation's history. Mr. Lincoln's image appears on our $5 bill. With Mrs. Lincoln on the $10 bill, we could have the first First Couple to appear on our currency.</p><p class="p1">Taylor Swift: She'd probably never, ever do such a thing. Ever.</p><p class="p1">Wilma Flintstone: She would represent America's rich, Stone Age heritage, and I'm thinking that she would be more than willing to yabba dabba do it.</p><p class="p1">Rosie the Robot: She was the metallic maid on "The Jetsons." "The Jetsons" were cartoon characters. Rosie was a cartoon character. </p><p class="p1">June Cleaver/Barbara Billingsley: The All-American mom. Right, Beav? Putting up with Eddie Haskell for all of those years has to be worth something.</p><p class="p1">Little Debbie: She makes really good snack cakes that are enjoyed by millions of Americans.</p><p class="p1">Molly Pitcher: She was good with a cannon. How many women can say that? How many men can say that?</p><p class="p1">Molly Hatchet: Oh, wait, she isn't really a she. She's a rock and roll band.</p><p class="p1">Molly Brown: You know, the unsinkable one. And, if my memory serves me correctly, which it usually doesn't, she was quite a character.</p><p class="p1">Miss Molly: Good, golly, Miss Molly, would be a great choice.</p><p class="p1">Any American mom ever born: They're all heroes. Right?</p><p class="p1">(*Mrs. Adams' letter appeared appeared on the PBS website. I hope they don't mind that I borrowed part of the letter.)</p>