The native American., 1840-07-11

hight, IN my after studies, came 10 the line IN
Virgil that expressed all the enthusiasm OF my
own felings as inspired by that presence, and
which ] could not often enough repeat
Credo equidem, nee fdes, genas es2e deorum,'
| saw him again at his interview with
Rochaubeau, when they met to settle the
plan of combined operations between the
French fleet and the American armies, against
the British on the Chesapeake: and then
saw the immense crowd dlawn together from
all the ncighboring towns, 10 get, II possible
one look at the man who had throned himself
IN every heart Not one OF that immense
crowd doubted the final triumph OF ms coull-
try in her arduous conflict; tor every one saw,
or thought he saw, in Washington, her guar
dian angel commissioned by Heaven to insure
to her that triumph MI deSperandum was
the motto with every one.
Nj, desperanduu. Teucro duce auSpice rsncro.'
In after life, when the Judgment correctS
the extravaganza of early impressions, | saw
him on several occasions, bat saw nothing at
either 10 admonish me,ot any extravaganza
in nv early impressions 'Hhe impression
was still the same had the same oyerpow-
ering sense of being il the presence OF some
superior being
1t is indeed remarkable, and / believe
unique in the history of men, that Washing
ton made the same impression upon all minds,
at all places, and at once. When his fame
first broke upon the world, II spread at once
oye.the whole world BY the consent Of
nankind--by the universal sentlment--hc
was placed at the head Of the human species:
above all envy, above all emulation for no
one then pretended, or has pretended to be
at least who has been allowed to be-the cor
rival Of Washington in fame,
When the great Frederick OF Prussia sent
his portrait to Washington, with this inscrip
ton upon it. "From the oldest General in
Europe to the greatest Gene, al III the world,
he did but echo the sentiment Of all the
chivalry Of Europe. Nor was the sentiment
confined to Europe, nor TO the bounds OF civil
lizaion for the Arab OF the Desert talked
of Washington in his tent; his name wander
ed with the wandering Scyth'an, and was
cherished by him as household word IN all
his migratlcns. No cline was 50 barbarous
as to be a stranger to the name; tut every
where, and by all men, that name was
placed at the same point OF elevation, and
above compeer. AS it was III the beginning
SO it is now Of the future we cannot speak
Win certainty. SOlllt llttule uSeS III llC eilu-
less revolutionso Of time, may produce another
Washington; but the greater probability IS
that he is destined to remain forever, as he
now is, the Phenix of human kind
What a possession to his country IS such
fame Such
Carnm ct venerable nomen
Geutibss I"
To all his countrymen it gives, and forever
will give, q passport to respect wherever they
&c. to whatever part Of the globe lor his
country is in every other identified with that
fame
What, then, is incumbent upon us, his
countrymen Why to be such People rs
shall be worthy of such a fame-a People
of whom it shall be said, No wonder such
people have produced such man as Wash.
ington." give you, therefore, this sentiment:
The memory of Washington May his
couutrymen prove themselves People worthy
of his fame