New-York daily tribune., 1844-02-23
r The MARSHALL Celebration of the Ami

n- The MARSHALL Celebration of the Ami
versarv of the Birth Of WASHINGTON IN the
creene. street Church last evening, was attended
by crowded auditory. After prayer by kev'
Mr.. GREENE, with Music, HENRY E. DAWES
read Washington's Fare,oeH Address with am
nation and vigor ELY MOORE then delivered d
most impassioned and powerful Grafton, ha'ihR
as its groundwork an eulogium on the character
and services of Washington. lie DIVER. On fi-a
fortitude and devotion to country IN tae i,oa' -
that country's Overwhelming calamity ana oeep-
est despair; painting with graphic skill. MS Ie-
CROSSING Of the Delaware, then running ice' De-
cember 1875, in the face of a pursuing ioc' ano
with a famished and shiverlng army, VINO hao
lust fled from repeated defeats, and whose shoe-
loss feet tracked with blood the frozen earth, ad-
vancing to attack division OF his pursuers-at-
tacking and conquering them. The audience
was thrilled with the speakers emotion, and
swayed as by an electric sympathy-now hushed
in breathess silence, now bursting into tempest
of uncomfortable applause.
Mr.. Moore proceeded to consider the contestn
which the Washingtonians of our day are en-
gagged against Tyranny more subtle, more dan
gerous, more ruinous than that resisted by our
Revolutionary Sircs--in truth, a continuation o.
the same struggle, since deIiverance from Fo-
reign woke is of little moment to people en-
shaved by their own sins. To People grovellng
in Intemperance and Vice, Liberty is phantom,
mockery. How shall we maintain the capacity
of Man for selfgovernment, if he uses the Liberty
ne has to plunge into vices destructive alike OF
his happiness, his health, his mental powers
That Freedom which has not its seat IN the soul
is worthless. In the spread and prevalence CT
knowledge, of Virtue, Of Temperance, are the
only guarantees of our National Liberties, and he
who now labors for these is as much Il soldier OF
Freedom as were our Fathers in the Revolution
struggling through contest as arduous as theirs
to victory as glorious Mr.. Moore closed with
an effective appeal to the Women of our City and
Age to give all their energies to this noble work
Of Temperance Reform.
Rev. WILLIAM II. CHANNING followed Mr M'
in a brief Address, in which he presented lhe
Washingtonian movement as signal e1lort' ana
almost a solitary ono, to apply the principles oil
Human Equality and Brotherhood which he at
the base of our Political institutions to the cor.
recton of Moral and Social evils. Its apostles
appealed to and treated the drunkard as an erring
and suffering brother. Under this treatment, the
drunkard himself became speedily an apostle Of
Temperance, intently, effectively engaged in
winning others from misery and degradation.
He closed with beautiful picture of the homes
once darkened by drunkenness now gladdcned
by Temperatures Of the families divided and shat
tered now reunited and blest; of the moral wrecks
snatched from ruin and restored to dignity and
usefulness by Washngtouian effort.-A(ter Mr..
C. closed Sandy Welsh took the stand, and was
persuading the few who still halted to 81 gn the
pledge, when we were obliged to come away.