The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-02-23

states, VINO Dut washington na0 tAc SpOticSS
the high talents, the unsupported
and the unexampled public conf
dance to attempt the administration of the
amid the storms and pillows by |
which the chip of State was then surround
ed? Who bat him could have managed with
such consummate wisdom the foreign affairs,
and the intricate domestic and Indian policy
Of the young Rcpublic9
The influence Of the American Kevoiu-
ton, and the military and political life Of
Washington upen the destinies Of mankind,
can never be calculated. Before the me-
morable year l776, Liberty had no resting
place upon earth! The republics of anti
guilty had found early and nnhonered graves.
Though we still look with sort Of melan-
choly satisfaction upon the remaining tro-
phies of their faded glory, there is nothing
in their history to give earnest Of desirable
or enduring freedom. In continental Eu-
rope the fallacious doctrines, Supremacy and
Divine Right, had shrouded the nations 10
one universal pail Of political darkness
In some few of the Swiss cantons, where the
Businesses of their eternal mountains gave
refuge and shelter to the unt,med spirits
who roamed in primitive freedom there, a
wild and lawless liberty, to a limited extent,
prevailed. England, too, could boast some
imperfect and inadequate guarantees from
oppression, wrung from her despo,ic sove-
reigns, when struggling with princes OF their
own blood, for the throne Of Alfred and
William. How much it was worth, while
Parliament remained, BY the theory of their
~ Faith
to their cost, in the bloody days Of the Re-
volution, and in those of oppression and tyr
amy which proceeded that struggle. From
this picture of almost universal political
gloom, the world was called to box upon one
Of living, glowing light-of nation govern
ing itself-of great people obedient to
laws of their own making, administered by
officers of their own choice. Before this
glorious era, there was not upon the face
of the whole earth, one spot to which the
devotee of liberty could resort, to worship
in peace at her heaven loved shrine! Now
a column Of light goes up from her altar
fires, in this land of the free, to cheer and
gladden. the hearts of her worshipers, in ev-
cry country and every cline.
Her triumphs have not terminated. With
the progress of society and enlightenment,
she is destined to fill the whole earth with
the light of her glory--to destroy the last
relic of tyranny, and secure to mankind uni
versal freedom, prosperity and peace.
Fellow Citizens-Ours is GLORIOUS inner
itance-and it becomes us, as the descen-
dants of an immortalized ancestry, to guard
we'll the boon that is left T.. 1t becomes us
to remember that eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty. 1t becomes us to remem-
Der that public prosperity can only be Sc
cured by that stern and incorruptible public
and private virtue which distinguished our
fathers-and which enabled them to triumph
over obstacles which, without it, no prowess
could have overcome, and no sagacity could
have prevented.
Fellow Soldiers think | am safe in pro-
missing for you, that if, at any future day,
your country should call you to her defence
If she should demand of you the hazard
of life and fortune on those fields Of undying
fame which Washington trod, and where the
bones Of your fathers Wondering lie, you
will respond as becomes the sons of such an
ancestry. And should our domestic hearths
and firesides be assailed, or our peculiar in
stitutions endangered, they will find their
best protection in the warm hearts and strong
arms of Citizen Soldiers. They will ever
find you ready to strike for the weak, the
virtuous, the fair, and the honorable. They
will find that our flag shall never be dishon-
ored: and though it may be faded by time,
or soiled in the red blood of the battlefield,
it will never be polluted by the touch Of an
enemy!
To the ladies who honor us this dav with
their presence, | venture, in my own name
and that of my fellow soldiers, to tender the
warmest thanks, tina, they have consented
to grace the occasion, and give the brightest
interest to the scenes of this day, and to
conclude with the hope, fondly cherished,
that they may be protected in the hour of
danger by those to whom they are Gas the
summer" Of prosperity. and as ministering
angels in the hour of sorrow.
THE RODNEY BURYING GROUND.
Nix. EDrToR-This is subject which
have purposed many times noticing in your
paper, with a view Of calling the attention of
the public to its consideration. Its present
exposed situation is calculated to reflect but
little credit upon either the taste or the NOR
al feeling Of our citizens. 1t is indeed
melancholy sight to view the spot where re-
pose the remains Of those whom in life we
"delighted to honor," exposedto the sacrile-
gious foot Of man and BEAST "This thing
ought not SO to be-" If the memory Of de-
parted friends, whose dust now peoples s'the
city of the dead.n has ceased To insnire us