Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-05-23

WAsHINGToN's INAuGURATIoN.-We re
Gently mentioned the scmi-ccniennlal celt
bratiou Of Washington's Inauguration at Ne
York on the 30lh Of April. The Hon. }. G
ADAMS was the orator on that intcrcstn
occasion.
The oration is to be printed, and we prom
ise ourself great qualification in reading il
We have as yet seen only about column
Of extracts from it-and in them, there il
something so touching, SO congcnial to the
better feelings ofon American citizen, so ad-
mrably calculated to lead our thoughts back
to the days Of our fathers and our mothers,
TO the days which ",ried mems souls" that
we hasten to give portion Of i, 10 our read.
ers, not doubling but that it will be as graft.
flying to them as to us.
Mr.. Adams traced the dsaffection Of the
Colonies, and the steps which led tO the Re-
voluion. England he said, forgetting the
lessons written on the pages of her own his
tory with the blood of her children, endcav
ored to tax the colonies without their con-
sent; the resistance was universal; the
DilllsU sent tuCI UTILITIES mere W ltdCn US
that John Ilampdcn was n rebel, and Alger-
non Sidney traitor: and the English law
yers declared Parliament to be omnipotent.
Our struggle before this was for chartered
rights. After this we fought for the natural
rights Of man, and trusted in the omnipotence
Of the God OF battle and won the fight.
The whole people of the l3 states then
met in Congress, and declared The 13 United
c-.n ...Ia L.
states were never declared free IN fact. The
Declaration of Independence says that the
good people Of the United States alone were
competent TO declare the United States free
and independent, and not each colony, be-
cause each was bound in union, in the first
congress in IVA, one year and ten months
before the declaration Of Independence.
Ii was then that the master minds Of Mad.
ison, and Jay, and Hamilton, were at work to
remedy the evil. The incompetency of the
articles Of confederation as system Of gov
eminent were felt daily; and in 1885 the
first movement to correct the evil was made
at Washington's house at Mount Vernon
There the confederatcd articles were revised,
and rough draft of the present constitution
drawn up and approved. In 1856 the con-
vention met and framed the constitution.
On the 30h of April 1889, Geo. Washing
ton the lst President was inaugurated under
the Constitution. On that day the work of
13 years was completed. Then the most
sublime efforts ever made by the mind of
man, the perfection of the pure principles of
q free government over civilized man were
first successfully carried out in practice.-
Not one Of the convention now lives. The |
third generation now listens to these state
ments. Your fair city, then numbered but
30, 600 inhabitants, now numbers 100000 i
your state then contained but double your
city's population, now counts its children by
and already have our hardy sons
traverscd the once thought intcrmlnabe
prairics Of the west, scaled the Rocky /
Mountains, and are dwelling in the paradise
that looks out upon The peaceful and bright /
bosom Of the Pacific Ocean.
Between the 9TH Of March and 18th OF
April, 1850, Washington wrote thus to Knox:
without the requisite political skill, to be
taken thus in the evening Of life from the
quiet scenes Of domestic felicity, and required
to take the helm Of affairs and guide this
untried and doubtful machine, leaves me |
small hope Of success. ! am embarking my |
good name in shallow bark on an unknown u |
and tempcstuous sea; but the voyage long
or short, two things, my integrity aud firm
ness, shall never forsake me. Whittier
succeed or fail, please or displease upon
other points, these the world can never dc.
privc me Of
We destroyed throne, and erected an
inlmovcable seat in which the descendants
and representatives of the people might sit
in peace and happiness, if God so willed it,
to The end Of time. Connected with our re-
forefathers there were two con-
spacious qualities displayed that are seldom
spoken Of in history they are incidental to
man, form part Of his nature, and are yet d.
rcctly opposed to each other. These are the
spirit OF command md the spirit Of obc dlence.
These two principles were never perfectly
displayed nor carried out completely in the
history of any one on earth, except in the |
hf OF the immortal Savior ofmcn. Although Il
th 81 qualities are natural TO so many, yet |
Homer, the finest delncator of human pas.
SONS t'at ever brcathed, never introduced
t"m ~ any OF his characters. His Roman
inlintor iainily shadows them forth in the
inconsistent En"as. But they were never /
80 iuliy seen, felt aud universally displnyedl VI
~ The lie and actions of any mortal man ne H
ihey we're IN the person and life of Gcorue II
Washington the father of IN. county
Here there was immense chez, ,ino1 II
The act OF leaving his happy home ror the
Of political life was trying one. II
Opposed 10 him and his principles were many Il
n1neni patriots of the R"yuluiion. They Il
allied under the dag VI State Rights; their