Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1835-10-15
From the National raselIisas.r.
MEMORY or WASHINGTON.

OF your beloved Washington was con.
slgnedto the humble sepulchre in which
i now reposcs. The melancholy event
threw the whole nation into tears, and
the determination Of your Representa-.
tves 10 erect monument to his mann.
DRY, worthy of his sublime virtues, was
then, every where, hailed with delight.
but-no memorial ofyour gratitude and
veneration is yet visible. The stran.
ger and solourner 10 your country has
sun to ask, where is the NATIONAL
MONUMENT, sacred to the memory of
your illusttious Washington, and dedi-
Gated TO public and private virtue p
Where shall look for the evidence of
the gratitude of the American people
to the man who, under Providence.
made them what they arei Alas as
national memorial, it is no where 10
be found.
Americans, Let not this genera.
ton pass away~ before you prove
to The world TINT the memory Of your
beloved Chief is still held in yenera.
ton, and his great virtues and services
still cherished in your hearts that the
cold neglect, SO long evinced, shall no
longer disgrace the character OF your
country, and that you yet have the pa.
triotism and feeling which become the
countrymen of Washington.
Americans! You are now called nm.
on, perhaps for The last time. 10 re.
spect your own character and that of
your country, by doing honor TO the
memory of him to whom YOU owe so
large debt ofgratitude. A monument
is about to be erected under the dIrec.
ton of a Society, established for that
purpose, in the city which he selected
as the Metropolis of the Nation, aud
which bears his honored name, by the
voluntary contributions of the Ameri.
can People. The sum required from
each Is but small, that each may have
the honor of contributing to so noble
an object. That no one may complain
OF not having an opportunity to share
in the glory of such an under.
taking, and to show the respect and
gratitude he feels, all will be called on
for their aid, and from all, old and
! young, male and female, that aid is ex :
pected. With the aggregate thus OBJ.
tanned, monument will be erected
which like him in whose honor it is to
be constructed, will be without rar.
allcl in the world. Every where the
memory Of the Father OF his Country
Is held in veneration and let your
contributions be in proportion to that
veneration. The time has come when
the stigma of ingratitude shall be blot.
ed from the escutcheon of the Repub.
he, and the American People will no
longer be tainted with Indifference and
apathy to TIE memory of their ilustri.
Gus Patriot.
Feflow. Citizens! The monumen, TO
the erection of which YOU are now cal.
led upon to contribute, must be worthy
of yourselves, of your country, and of
the man to whom it is to be dedicated.
1t will be monument not OF Washing.
ton alone, but of the gratitude, patri.
otsm munliicence, and taste OF the peo.
| pie of the present age ofthe Republic.
1t is intended, therefore, to make il at
once stupenduous and elegant, tha. it
may be an object in which the present
generation will glory, and at which
future generations will admire & won
der. To do this a general contribution
of even the small sums required, land
which every one can afford, will be
sufficient. For these the agents Of the
Society are authorized TO call upon
each Of you; and it is expected that
no American will be found 50 indiffe-
rent to his own reputation & the char.
acter OF his country as to refuse or
withhold his mite from an object so
noble, so patriotic, and so honorable
to the American People.
BY order of the Board Of Managers
Of the Washington National Monument
| Society.
GEO. wATERsToS, ssc'y w. N. NJ. S.
| THE TWA FRiENs' AND TWA ROOFS.
| An Anecdote in Military LJe.--In
the Grenadier company of a Scotch
regiment forming part of the British
army in Spain were two privates known
among their companions as the t" twa
friens," from the steadiness of their
mutual attachment, 81 otherwise much
respected, for propriety conduct. -
In one ofthe last skirmishes which tool,
place among the lower Pyrenees, when
our brave fellows drove their opponents
from one entrcnched height to another ia
the very confines Of the "sacred terri
tory" one ofthe 'friens' received a Sc
we're wound IN the thigh. Dur ing few
a weeks in which our troops were in
4 cant0nupntS nravIofle 10 enfnrin a,