The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-30

S Sts thai nhe snce ofeedom which we have received
from fathers May this nation be ever faithful 20 inss
unto all men Remove from US every vesge Of
every stain Of dhono Assuage tbs violence ?, party
enterprise, and our inquiries amer truth Bless abundany
with and counsel Thy servants the ana
Of conlederscy our national Iongress
and Judiciary whenever assembled to make or administer
the Lsgsus sDa Ss h S
and the navy all who called to serve the interests
and %
enjoy peace and prosperity and Thy name have con;
praise Al s .s 20, fox almighty oTS and aasr
worthy, but in the Of Him whom Thou nearest al
ways and who hast taught US to pray Our Father which
art in heaven hsllowed be Thy name Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done earth heaven give us this day
daily bread and forgive espasses forgive
ton but deliver Us from evil Tor thine Is the Kingdom pnd
the power and the glory, forever and Amen
The Hon. George M. Dallas then advanced, and
in an impressive manner, and with a voice whose
clear tones could be heard at the arhest verge of
the vast multitude, delivered the following
EULoGIUM.
Feiow-eitizens and friends:
The sorrows of nation the loss Of great and good
alike confirmed and asuaged by recurring to the
virtues and services which endeared him While funeral
solemntes. such in progress attest the per-
vnding regrets of communities, and swelling tears bety
the anguish of individual friendship-whe the muied
drum the shrouded ensign and the silent march Of mingled
Of citizens and sodery address their impress
sye force to the hearts of all Is well seek sciace in
remembrances which must brighten forever the annals OF
our country and hch add one more to the list Of names
utteanee exats the pride and strengthens the
AT the epoch when September i77a the delegates of
eleven colonies assembled at Carpenters Hall before
the first gun fired at Lexington in the ofwesern
liberty Washington was yet hailed as general and
nchie there could be SEEN in the wilds Of
the Waxhaw settlement, South Carolina, farm in
dangerous proximity to Indian tribes and clustering with
two elder brothers around widowe ed mother boy about
eight years Of age in whose gallant
blood that shortly after gushed from the wounds of Mont
yomery into the trenches Of Quebec that boymoulded in
he OF
to the American people pened into athletic manhood en-
feebled by toll by disease and by egeis just dead;
you have invited pronounce, his yet loose
grave the tribute of aheconate gratitude and
exploits lived through al your heros hsoT
and was himself an inseparabls part of -who born
coast and has sunk into it when continent knew
you when but two millions Of scattered weak dependent
and dsquieied provincialists yet you ere he
ceased to know you immense united, powerful and
peaceful nation tits impossible on the present OCCASION
ompca,e and enno6lng but there are incidents and
ments connected with the character and Of An
ympathze and which his public obseques appo-
priately as irresistbly to call into expression.
The STRIPPING orphan while mourning over the loss Of
hourly witnessing some new cruelty committed upon
friends and neighbos, mbbed during the storms Of our
country that lost its his actions II be.
came to him an impulse as nsncye and rrepressele as
his evenu existence the master passion of his nature
He passed through the of 77o in all but that too youth
u Tor Its trials there moment in his after
being when this devotion can be said TO have waned or
Numbered In his breast such trait so pure so ardent so
esh thiee weeks ago as seventy years before
prompt and amid the ross OF age when in the
SPRING " me st Ahdea az me voice OF Washngtohn-
vokes that the door of his scpuchre is closed unds
embled and undssentng praise II is this quality OF moral
sxceencc which forms the basis oil his lame as was the
oaVe with s Bryan regiment Of toss n sS
scarcely thirteen Of down TO the close Of his
forward through all his diplomatic conflicts with foreign
| powers, II shone with steady intensity.
Inc peace oil 1888 FOUND MIN the only survivor oil ms lam
yle wero alone to face the snsres OF the world
'ducated and sul boy, HIS small patrmony melted
its to which he had been raned by eight of wild and
desperate STRIFE There was no one to counsel or to guide
him for the paths Of useful industry and of restored
tranquility But Jackson wanted no one Al THIS perhaps
iusatly attributed treatment Others noby ex-
srcned IN governing himself Energeucaly entering upon
hm soon after hs maory n moi srs
ervs ms ndePendence but to carve his way to
ice be Western district Of Narb caona now b se 81
eSased ssors and tssmed with dangers such
infested With cnraged herokees and choctaws its Wider
isuned public soleor more than twenty fines e nr
him to fatigue 10 The Of ufe constantly IN per md 10
destined srnaliy 10 s"bSue and Ssperss "non' ne
II cannoi he 20 nmr.us hnss detail. s,r,h ~
ob & he ,hst ser ains ~ rn no
t,non far he STAT, b . i1r,a 1n ,gi iLo
The age of thirty became her first and only
vsmhr no, W ,h Senate Of th d;ted set nd ~ NO
Willing to proone his lsRislave service became nudge Of
The conrf ~ In ali these s.
tons and esneciay in the last his saaacious mind direct
I'd nv movas M once n,re and ofiy and sustained hy
snir, Of nnconnuerah. Grmnnss has ,n mnnnmen,s' Of
practical wisdom and nseines in The right,
and amelotino Tho condition Of his which
linn, cannot aa.ce - - ' ~
When the prolonged apcressions of Great Britain unon
the maritime rights comnerce and honor nj Amer;ca
prompted in 1872 declaration of hostlitie, our here
hough wachf Of and eeny alive 10 he
had retired from publc ACTIVITY and was engaged in the
calm pursus of Horticultural life THAT signal sonnded
with Welcome in his secluson and summoned him 10
deathlesa renown n cam. 40 his oucL ear i'll !. onn
wishedor hermit to the and ne
sued name If those for hom he es ever ready IN
fee withont stint his rcnoss hi, forpnc sndhs bInnd
m. ry v;brstsd on tba b,aeo
ars ~. sco.J II hacL msc y,;,h rh;cS anas ohl
Of hs soni was in unison In less than week leaving his
inch IN ~ 20. ana,;u 6,rou and hs [ hara. i
@ " IN ~ III oPes u i ~ s ~ o
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wo thoIahd nxe huhoiea 'oiuneeS a"aiS ordefs from
'he ehie' eAe0u'''
must notl dare noqu the singleness OF my subject
TO indulge in "reminiscences hut partially connected with
it, however alluring. Yet had the great and generous
champion whom we lament host Of associates COMPETE
with him in the proud struggle Of which should risk