Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1812-06-01

Oh my friends, little did tie world ne
Know Of the man, whom Providence inten
ded should exalt Americas des Inv, To-
while TINS world was bordering on the Z
vent, the illustrioIs Farmer Of Mount Yer
non became the 1inCinnatus Of the moderr
age.
This day, The 3Oth IF April, wasa day
most memorable Ia the hero's life, for il
was thls day, now thu &c and twenty years.
When ne received the highest dignity, IN
rs country's power 10 bestow. l will &c.
member the time aye, my friends, il was
| 6AIant DAY, and such an one, AZ fear we
! snail net shorty witness, again. Tide gran
ceur, the awiulness, the impressiyeness og
| the scene, can never be etfsced from Amer.
| Ican remembrance. And when he had
sworn upon The Evangelsts Of his Cod, 10
De faithful TO his country, her Constitution
| ana her laws the shouts Of thousands rent
the sIr, the artillery Numbered flom it's bra
zen throat, but its sounds were lost III tie
mighty tumult OF applause. Twas not 4
| lew 'hrew up their greasy caps, and cried,
| ionG i've king Richard"-No, il was the low
Gus eXultstlon, which flowed from grateful
neAFls' which rose TO the chancery OF Heav-
gu 70 hal!ow the oath and implore a bless
'"8 on the father Of his country.
And yet my friends, foreigners. qenle.
h eni would you believe-can Dosterty,
,,ii"A ye' DC made % believe, that few
sno' years should only have elapsed, and
vs. Us, nave 80 materially changed the scene !,
Ihat TINS venerable man, while in the full
~er'ulAh OF Dis usefulness, when toll and
.o"6 experience IN ms country's cause, had
oiNeted ms brow and furrOwed his manly
CheeK, and while in the winter Of his Ionr
anu valued lie, should have been made the
sport q calumny That serbenis, who had
ueeh warmed into little life at the fire.
SIDE OF our happiness should have dared NJ
@.'ehiPt 70 sting our best benefactor, and
MN Washington too He, upon whose
generous front nature and proud integrity
mao stamped enough TO have disarmed lie
Devil Of his malice
" This you will say, my friends, was
hard, but there is something harder
still ! When his glorious race was run,
ms noble career Of service ended, and
ne had been gathered to the empyrean
reserved tor the good When his sun
GaaH na sn a@R5 l9 thf " esf yf by OTIS
wisdom and to eXalt our virtue Then,
Oh, then to have denied him sepul-
chre, was hard indeed! For It's then,
my friends, our duties should have COM
menced, then we should have assumed
the pious task, and as children Of this
great parent, have each carried a stone
20 his tomb.
when the traveller, from civilized Eu-
rope, shall hither come, scarce will his shoes
have been sJiled on our strand, ere he VIII
ask TO be shown the SPOT where we have
lain Liberty's Great Defender, Americas
Immortal Son and lie will sorrow On be
holding it. When the poor savage, the wild
tenant -four wilderness, shall hither come,
although the magnet If science hath not
touched his darkened mind. yet his whole
soul has been filed, by traditionary lore,
with the fame Of our Chief-he, TOO, will
ask to see the spot where sleeps the Brave,
and when he shall sec il. then, people Of A.
merica, even the poor Indian will blush for
your ngrstitude
True this duty hath been called thing
Of custom. It is but, my friends, are we
not the creatures Of custom DO we not
act, think, almost exist, by custom and
sure, what has been customary with nations,
! The most polite and splendid in The world,
| need not be unworthy of US. III me csnnOt
| equal the European IN his high sense of
! gratitude, where is our philosophy.
| "GO search the remOtest corners ofthe
habitable earth 60 to the EXTREMIST East,
where the Calmuc roams, come hitler, a.
gain, and having touched on the classic,
shores of Europe, away 10 EXTREMIST West,
! even to where AIammOdth dwells, or the
sun will tire in vestlng. In every age in
every cline mid every race Of created
man divine gratitude stiu holds her en-
! pire, from the Tumuluts OF the COssac of tte
Tomb Of Adrian.
:" An anecdOe, at this moment, crosses
my mind. twill arrest lis passage; for Il
paints, in glowing coI0rs, the n tive feeling
Of the American soldier. II would have
done honor to Athens, WI en- she could boast
her rhemistocles or 10 Rome, in the age
Of her ScipiOs-Mark the tale
"Shnrtly after the death Of the General
an aged man called at Mount Vernon. He
said, he was lourneying 10 the south, 10 see
his children and had called to take las
look on the grave of his old commander for
said he, could not have passed my few re
manning wears in peace, had not have per
| loFIheu lhls plOuS laShI fHy al slfJ ~ was
indeed the soldiers friend. Toll and hard
suiFerings had paralised this veterans frame
and his valor had been marked by the wea
non c the foe for he WIS one Of those, WHO
( frmed the fOrlorn hope of American liberty
when her Washington crossed The Deiawars
in The memorable Winter 70. The olC
! man was refreshed; fer never were Iht
doors of Mount Vernon closed against tht
. 1
cold 10 the man Of sorrows The vetergl
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