Tri-weekly journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1847-188?, 1848-01-06
Bishop Hughes, Discourse at washington.

WASHINGTON 80. NAPOLEON
Bishop Hughes being in Washington, John Quin-
cy Adams and several other members of Congress
waited on him on Friday, the 10th inst, requesting
him, at the time, to deliver discourse on Sun
day, the 18th ins in the Capital He accepted ofthe
invitation, and the following notice of the discourse
is from the Washington correspondent of the Charles
ton News
The Hall ofthe House was densely filed. The
text selected was the Goth chapter of Matthew and
the 10th verse, and the subject the condition of hui
man nature at the time of the coming of the Savior
the direct object of the mission, the principles by
which the amelioration of the world has been achev-
ed, and the application of the principles far as
they have been applied to the moral. social and polit
ical condition of mankind. The Bishop spoke in
clear and musical tone; his remarks were not doc
tTina, and were such that not even the most rigid
Puritan could reject. But without giving you out
line of the sermon, merely design the comparison by
the reverend gentleman of Washington and Napoleon,
and it was thus delivered;
"In our own country there was one great man,
who approached as near to the Saviors precepts as
man could approach. How important that we
should keep his conduct before our minds how
necessary in country like this, in which GOD
raised up, so singularly, public deliverer. That
country, worthy of its origin and destiny, may
become the medium of benefaction on the whole hui
man race
''When think of that deverer, almost without
perception youth working for the causeofh
try, and, as his countrys son, making sacrifices for
her, yet with a modest and human dignity which
makes the life of him kind of solitary biography in
the history of the human race am led to the eoncu-
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it has nothing else to compare with it.
"When think Of his feelings of humanity, his
honor to the mother whom he served, and whose
chains he had broken; when l see him voluntarily
(may we not hope with Christian emotions) turning
aside from the dazzling prospects, other eyes, which
succeeded his efforts; when behold this, we behold
a spectacle which would be engraven on the hearts Of
our countrymen.
''You have seen, on the contrary, man almost
similar in his career; but in its termination how dis
astrous! With the example of George Washington
before him, you see him during the revolution of an
other empire, in Europe. Without presenting early
manifestations of singular talent to attract the atten
ton of the country, you see him, with a sudden i'm
pulse spring from the soldiers tent to the kingly
throne! And on the throne of the country which h
serves, is he disposed minister to the happiness
others Is he disposed 10 abrdge the extent OF th
power of his greatnessl Alas, no! His career wa
like the fight ofthe meteor it astonished the upturneC
eyes of the world. 1t was bright, brilliant
as glorious!
: "And when he beheld these great men, the on
resigning his sword at Annapolis and the other abd
eating his throne at Fontainbleau, what contrast
n Washington beqHeathed legacy only less valuable
b than the Freedom which he won!
d 1.-The European General filled the world with hi
name. Amidst the excavations of the country whicl
he desecrated, he forced tears and curses from tn
mothers whose growing progeny were stripped from
their sides. when at age bear the weapon of dealt
to the field of conflict. He was soaring eagle; bu
> now an eagle, with crushed wings and broken pin
Q ions chained to rock of the ocean,"