Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-03-27

martyr.deaths Of Warren, Mercer, Mont
gomery, Wooster, or that more than he
roic youth. Nathan Hale. He was no,
philosopher like Franklin. nor a juris,
like Jay, nor an orator like Richard Hen.
ry Lee or John Adams, nor a cons,itu.
tional commentator like Madison and
Hamilton ard yet he was truly create.
than each and all of them & profited BY
their gifts. HE was the man of his age.
He was tho centre, the representative, the
director,the genius ofthat mighty scheme
Of which they, with all their several ex.
cellences, were but incidental PARTS.
The genius ofthal age, the good gen.
Ius of our country was not personal he.
roism or chivalry; not mere military
skill and renown; not mere science OF
rhetorical power, but the moral dignity
of law and order, the supremacy of uni
form and stable Legislation over mobbish
caprice. and Of steady judicial ministra.
ton over wild, impu!sive. natural justice,
submission to the necessary concessions
and conditions Of well ordered society,"
system, self restraint, self Remuneration
and self government. and all these were
embodied in Washington, bound up ia his
being, displayed in every act and mo-
ment of his public life, and were stamped
by him upon the age, the nation and the
government.
In him the people saw exemplifed all
the great virtues that best became the
character of the Nation. In him they
saw the majesty the beauty of Law
and Order-of patriotic faith, and labo-
IIous discharge of duty, Of disinterested
renunclations of all honors when they
ceased to be associated with duty they
saw, till they admired, revered, loved, i'm
ltated and adopted the public virtue which
they saw thus embodied. Thus the char.
acter of Washington was The character
OF the age As he seemed to absorb and
concentrate ali gifts, exceIlences and glo-
ries from each individual patriot, so he
seemed to diffuse them again through the
great mass, until he became the heart of
the Nation, the mind of the age, the soul
of the time. For he was given not
only "to be leader and commander
OF the people," but ga acitness to the peo-
niedne, vIp..b~ assse.rsuu ...a.sv,G = ,,,v p,a-
triotic, law-loving, orderly freeman.
Having finished the work which was
given him to do, Washington departed;
and with him, The purposes of that time
being accomplished, the age Departed
The unity of that great drama was com.
plete; and the curtain falls, to rise upon
another and greater scene.
In the Revolutionary age, if what is
now history had then been prophecy,and
if one had been commissioned to select
the man who should in the next genera
ton come forth to be the leader of the ma.
ton in the develpement of its purpose
whittier would he have gone TO seek him
destined TO be the man Of the people and
the man of the age?
Pehaps 10 the halls of some school, col
lege or university, where the favored few
who were acquiring in studious seclu-
sion the wisdom of antiquity and arming
themselves with the weapons of science
and literature for the coming contests of
their time. Perhaps among those who
by association with other nations, by ia.
mlliarIty with foreign countries, were
learning the world, and thus apprecia-
ting, by comparison, the peculiar excel
leIce of our goodly heritage, and the Pc
culiar glories Of our opening Destiny
No; not there shall he find TEE NAM
though among these there are some who
shall bear their part sand stand in their
lot in the end OF the days." Shall we
seek him then here, growing up amid the
refinements of associated wealth, sur
rounded by the advantages of those dense,
well organized society, among the sons
Of the rich and the honored? No: not
here; though these influences are devel.
oping mighty masses of intellect and NOR
al power which shall be felt in their time
and in their place. Shall we seek him
then among those who are looking to
military service for the means Of adapting
themselves TO the natural tastes of ma
ton born in war and baptized in blood,
whose infancy was fed on the mangled
carnage of thousand battle fields? No:
No! not there-not there though thence
shall come those who shall in their turn
receive their share of honor, and do their
allotted portion of good and evil.
The nation shall, at one time, worship
the incarnation of Moloch, the demon of
lawless tyranny, violence, base vindic-
tiveness, murder and rapine, and, at an
other time shall bow in the dust before
the golden image of Mammon. the god
of selfishness, coyetousness. ayarIce,
meanness and fraud but at last the a.
bomlnable idols shall crumble and tumble
down upon their besotted adorers, crush
ing with them their own false prophets
who made their people to sin, men of
Belial, who with intrigue and trick per-
verted the truth, and slowed and made