Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-07-20

ELOQUENT ExTRAcT.-The following are the
closing passages of the addressed Speaker Win
throp, on the occasion of the laying of the cor
ner stone ofthe Washington Monument. They
are both eloquent and patriotic, and will find
warm response in the heart of true Ameri-
can:
The Union, the Union in any erent, was
thus the sentiment of Washington. The Union,
the Union la any event. let ii be our sentiment
this dayi
Yes, to-day, fellow citizens, at the very mo-
ment when the extension of our boundaries
and the multiplied ton OF our territories are
producing, directly and indirectly, among the
different members of our political system, SO
many marked and mourned centrifugal tenden-
cies, let us seize the occasion TO renew 20 each
other our vows Of allegiance and devotion to
the American Union. and let US recognize in
onr common title 10 The name and the fame oil
Washington, and in our common veneration
for his example and hisadvice, the all sufficient
centripetal power, which shall hold the thick
clustering stars of our confederacy in one glo-
rious constellation forever. Let the column
which about 10 construct be at once a
pledge and an emblem of perpetual Union
/ Let the foundation be laid, let the superstruc-
ture be built up and cemented, let each stone
be raised and riveted, in spirit of national
brotherhood! And may the earliest ray OF tie
rising sun-till that sun shall .set 10 rise nc
more-draw forth from it daily, as from the
tabled statue of antiquity, strain of national
harmony, which shall strike responsive
chord i'll every heart throughout the Repub
lie!
4 Proceed then, fellow-citlzens, with the worl
for which you have assembled! Lay the cor
ner-stone ola monument which shall adequate
! ly bespeak the gratitude of the whole Ameri
can People TO the ilustrious father of hi
countryl Build it TO the skies; you canno
outreach the holiness of his principles! Found
it upon the massive and eternal rock; YOU can
not make it more endurable than his flannel
Construct it of the peerless Parian marble; yol
cannot make 1t purer than his life! Exhaus
upon 1t the rules and principles otancient ant
modern art; you cannot make it more proper
tionate than his character!
But let your homage to his memory no
stop here. Think not to transfer to tablet O
a column the tribute which is due from your
selves. Just honor TO Washington can onl
be rendered by observing his precepts and imi
tating his example. Similitudinc decoremus
He has built his own monument. We AM
those who come after US in successive genera
tons are its appointed, its privileged guardi
ans. This widespread republic is the tru
monument of Washington. Maintain its In
dependence. Uphold its Constitution. Pre-
serve its Union. Defend its Liberty. Let
stand before the world in all its original streng
and beauty, securing peace, order, equality ant
freedom TO all within its boundaries, and shed
ding light and hope and JOY upon the pathwa
|, of human liberty throughout the world; an
Washington needs no other monument. 9th
er structures may fifty testify our yeneratio
fol him; this, this alone can adequately illus
tnte his services TO mankind.
Nor does he need even this. The Republi
may perish; the wide arch of our ranged Unio
may fall; star by star its gories may expire
stone By stone its columns and its capitol ma
moulder and crumble, all other names whic
adorn its annals may be forgotten; but as lon
as human hearts shall any where pant, OF hu
man tongues shall anywhere plead, for true
rational, constitutional liberty, those heart
shall enshrine the memory, and those tongue
prolong the fame of GEORGE WASHINGTON.