Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-02-29

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THE MEMORY OF WASHINGTON
The following were the observations
with which Mr.. Ruger p etaced his mo-
ton respecting the pledge of the former
Congress on tile death Of Washington
Mr.. Huger said, that what he deemed
a solemn duty obliged him to claim the
of the house few moments,
He had been detained by severe mdispo-
aition from attending his duties in that
body since Saturday last, and though
better, he Should not have yentured out
TO day, but Tor a piece of information
which had accidentally reached him that
porni9g In slancins his eyes over the
aapers Just brought him, he was struck
" certain resolutions published in the
Richmond Enquirer, from which it APP
peared that the legislature Of Virginia
had, by All unanimous vote, authorised
the governor OF the state to apply TO the
honorable Bushrod Washington, to per-
nit the remains of her beloved son, the
late General Washington. to be removed
and iaterred near the capitol of Virginia.
Ills heart sunk within him, he confessed,
on reading those resolutions, and recall
lug TO mind the scenes he had once wit
messed, and in which he h d once acted
a part on the Aoor Of that Congress, which
reare>ented the American nation on the
}eath Of this great man. He had often
aince thought with establishment. and
moe than reg, ct, Of the apathy of the A.
meiican people on this subject. But, al
though he reMembe ed, With the most
poignant grief, the failure of his exe,-
lions, and the far more powerful exer-
tons OF some of the best and greatest
Rea who were at that time members of
Congress, to get SOM thing done worthy
Of tie American nation--yet he had not
t'argotten, that the sixth Congress had
gnue SO far as TO authorize the President
Of that day to write in behalf of the ma
ton to Mrs. Washington, and to make
Of her a like request in regard to the re-
mains Of cur beloved Washington
Neither bad he forgotten the admirable
aud pathetic letter written by that lady;
in which she grants their request. The
remains Of, Washingtoa then were pledg-
ed TO the whole nation and he trusted
the time was at length come, when the
hOnnrs sacredIy due to them, would be
paid, as they ought long ago to have been
6y the representatives of the whole A
merican people. ILe had himself been a
NE roef of that Congress, and one of
hose who had approved of the appIica-
tor made 10 Mrs. Washington. He had
narrower, been one of the committee,
the only one now honored. with a seat on
tbat Esor, to whom the subject had been
feiened, when it had asst been befo e
cungress. lie did not therefore, he
trusted. assume Zoo much to himself when
he yentured to think, that 1t had in some
degree devoived on hin, as a sacred and
solemn duty, TO call the attent on OF
congress to this subject at the presen,
time, aad under the. particular circam.
stances whi(c he had noticed above.
Accordingly, iadisposed as he was, he
had, without the loss OF a single moment
Hurried down TO the house, and he seq
ed the first possible Opportunity to Offer
the resolution he held in his hand. Be
| fore he read it to the chair, he would bt
permitted to add, thdth he trusted no gen
Itieman could possibly sup! ose he mean
Thereby to express any disapprobation ii
regard to the resolutions OF the icgisla
Iture, or to eyince the smallest disrespec
Ito the state OF Virginia. he was rae o
1.-The last men in that house to do 50. Viz
leinia had been to him, in no small de
Iarce, a second alma mater. Though n
ihrst drew his breath in the capital Q
ISouth-C Carolina, he had passed durln'
1.-The revolutionary war several OF his ear
Ily years in that state beng exiled IRON
his state then in possession Of the enc
Ia,y. lie had ret every where, and trof
thousands in Virginia, hospitality, kInd
Eness, friendship. and he might with Pre-
riety add, parental affection and pre-
lection. 1t was impossible all this caul
lever he erased from bis heart, and as h
before observed, he had never ceased I
eoard Virginia as his SECOND alma.Matel