Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-12-08

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OF her sovereign and his Parliament, not
unexpectedly her people, had forced him,
and IN which the war had left him. Nor
was there ever among all the complacent
selt-deiusiOns with which the fond concelts
OF national vanity arc apt to intoxicate US,
one more utterly fantastical than the notion
wherewth the politicians of the Pitt school
were wont to fatter themselves and beguile
lolIowers-that simply because the Great
American would not yield either to the
bravadoes of the Republican envoy, or to
the fierce democracy of Jefferson, he there
lore had become weary Of Republics, and
friend 10 monarchy and TO England. In
truth, this devotion to liberty, and his init
mate persuasion that it can only be enioycd
under the Republican scheme, constantly
gained strength to the end Of his truly glo-
rouS life and his steady resolution to hold
the balance even between contending
extremes at home, as we'll as to repel any
advance from abroad incompatible with per-
tcct independence, was not more dictated
blythe natural justice Of his disposition, and
the habtual sobriety Of his views, than it
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commonwealth is most ellectualy served
by the commanding prudence which checks
all excuses and, guarantees it against the
peril that chiefly besets popular govern
mcnts.
His courage, whether in battle or in
council, was as pclfec: as ght be cxpcc-
ted from this pure and steady temper Of
soul. Aperlectjust man, with thorough
ly firm resolution never to be misled, by
others, any more than to be by others over
awed ; never to be scduccd or betrayed,
or hurried away by his own Weaknesses
or Subdivisions ; any more than by other
mems arts; nor never to be dsheartened
by the most complicated difficulties, any
more than to be spollt or the giddy heights
of (ortune-such was this great man
great, prominently great, whether we re-
gard him sustaining alone the whole weight
Of campaigns all but desperate, or glorious
ly terminating just warfare by his resour-
ces and his courage-presiding over the
Earring elements of his political council,
alike deaf to tho storms Of all extremes
or directing the formation Of a new gov
eminent for great people, the first time
that so vast an experiment had ever been
tried by major finally rctireing from su
preme power to which his virtue had raised
him over the nation he had created, and
whose dastnios he had guided as long as
his aid was equircd-retiring with the
vcneration Of all parties, of all nations, Of
all mankind, in order that the rights Of
men might be conserved, and that his ex-
ample never might be appealed to by vu!-
gar tyrants. This is the consummate glo-
ry of Washington triumphant warrior
where the most sanguine had n right to
despair; a successful ruler in all the diff
cuties of a course wholly untried; but a
warrior whose sword only left its sheath
when the first law of our nature comman-
ded it to be drawn and ruler who, hay
ing tasted of supreme power, gently and
unostentatiously desired that the cup might
pass from him, nor would suffer more 10
wet his lips than the most solemn and sa-
cred duty to his country and his God re-
quired
To his latest breath did this great patriot
maintain the noble character Of a captain
the patron of peace, and statesman the
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to his heirs the sword which he had worn
in the war for liberty, and charged them
" Never to take from the scabbard but in
self-derence. or in defence of their country
and her freedom and commanding them
that when it should thus be drawn, they
should never sheath it nor give it up, but
prefer falling with it in their hands 10 the
relnQuishment thereof''-words, the ma
iesty and simple cloQuencc of which are
not surpassed in the orotory Of Athens
and Rome,
1t will be the duty Of the historian and
the sage in all ages to let no occasion pass
Of commemorative this illustrious man; and
until time shall be no more will test Of
the progress which our race has made in
wisdom and in virtue be derived from the
vcneration paid to the immortal name Of
WASHINGTON