Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-07-22

Bunker--of Eutaw-and of Yorktown" Now
this certainly isvery clever and perspcuous, and
the man who could behold such sight, in retrospect
tion, ought to be bought mp by the Royal Academ,
of Arts and Sciences, AS an absolute prodigy-wor
thy Of Immortality.
81 see in this assembly some whose bended forms
and venerable locks tell me they were cotempora
neous with those events but alas how small is thu
remnant fthat band of patriots they scattered
| throughout our land like the OF the desert
| but few more years, and the last of them sha'
| sumber within the peaceful bosom of the grave
hut bal another jubilee shah have passed, and not
one of them shall he LEFT 10 tell TO US the story
Yet how happy-how enyiabl., must be their feel
lngs."
Here we presume Mr. Patten got worked up to
what the cohees call the sticking point and indulg
ed himself in the outpouring Of soul surcharged
with all the better feelings Of our nature. He
says he beholds in the assembly band Of decrepid
old men, borne down by msfortunes, and contend
ing with the ills Of life and the cold blasts of ngra
itude, who just tottering the parapet Of the
grave, and though wretched and emacated." yet," !"
he exclaims show happy, how enviabe must be
their feelings" 1t was always an opinion Of ours
that wretchedness and misery begat anything but,
joy but il appears that we in error and ths,
misery begets happiness We are largely indebted
to Mr.. Patten for the demonstration Of this fact,
and shall long remember him with gratitude. In
continuation he says:
Happy beyond the usual lot Of mortals, they
have attained in this life the frution Of their hopes.
They must die"
The happiness Of those care-worn and war-bat-
| tered veterans is beyond that usually allowed to
mortals says Mr.. Paten-and Why because they
have lived to their hopes realized-that is they
have lived long enough to find themselves abject
aud detected in their old age, "and naked to their
enemies"! From such happiness, spare us great
prophet! "But they must die'"-only think o.
that--who, GfMr. Patten had not kindly assured
us that these withered soldiers must at last bid the
world farewell) would not have supposed them
immortal? 'But' alas! "they must die!'
" Revered shall be their relics; and when this
time shall he antiquity, the nations then in exs-
teuce shall come upon pious pilgrimage, TO the
green spots where lie buried their ashes"
This is an important disclosure and is entitled to
| patent. Their relics shall be revered when time
what time ']shall be antiquity, and all the nations,
from Nova .Zembla to Japan shall make pious pill
grimages to the green spots where repose the
ashes! Now this indeed may be the fact " when
time is antiquity" but for the sake of the good citi-
zens OF Rhode Island who shall exist when time
is antiquity" we hope no such thing will take place.
fn,ly al fbo fion with hair Inna
servants and maid servants and their and their
mules" shall assemble the little fifteen mile
1slaud What a crowd there will be in Newport
when time is antiquity"-and pray Mr.. Patten
how will they all be accommodated? You must
make arrangements MIR. Patten for their entertain
ment-only think of that sir-pray think OF that
"But on this day, and on this occasion, what Ian
guage is adequate to express the feelings OF our
hearts for him, who under God, was the savior oi
his country-for him, whose perseverance IN diff
cuty-whose iortitude in disaster-whose pru
dence in triumph-whos" wisdom in council-and
whose equanmity in every situation, render HIM
superior to all the heroes OF history, to all the sages
of antiquity; he stands alone IN the world; coll
queror but not tyrant--a patriot without ambition
though throne was offered him, he preferred
rather to reign in the hearts OF his people"
This sentence is worth its weight in gold, and
should be kept sacred in the archives Of the nation
a. it restores to the world the noblest captain that
ever hourshed, and informs the reader Of the very
important fact, that Washington is not dead, but
stands alone in the world, a conqueror-not a ty-
raut." Beside all this, we informed in the same
breath that Washington had a crown offered to him,
which he, like Cesar, "thrice did put aside."-
Where this informal ion was derived, we know
not and as we are somewhat curious to learn a
thing or two, about the political history Of our
country we will thank Mr.. Patten to point to the
folio where he obtai'.e it. Ramsay, who, by the
way, was pretty good chronologer, says not
word about il and Mrs. Warren, Botta, and Trum-
bull, are equally silent on so momentous subject
"Brass itself shall become corro.ion-marble it.
self shall become but Dust but thy name shall
live cotemporancous with time, imperishable as
liberty"
"Brass itself.hal become eorrosion," Chat is, ac-
cording to the Orator, it shall become the power
of eating or wearing away by degrees;) marble
shall tumble into dust, but the name Of Washing
ton chall become cotemporaneous with tme--im-
peristable as liberty. By this we suppose, MIR.
Patten would have us to understand that the name
of the first of American heroes, will survive the
blast. of time-exist forever, and two days after