The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-04-12
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WlSHINGT0N'S LAST CHARGE AT BRANDY
WINE.
BY GEORGE LIPPARD.

Ihey tell us mat he was cold, calm,
passionless: heart of ice and face of
marble.
Such is the impression which certain
\ men, claiming the title of Philosopher and
Historian, have scattered to the world,
I.pcerning our own Washington.
A,r,sy compare him with the great man
france. Yes, they say Napoleon was
4an of genius, but Washington man
TALENT. Napoleon was all fire, energy,
,blimity; Washington was very good
h, it is true, but cold, calculating, COM
Ih-place.
While they tell the mass of the people
ht Washington was a saint, nay almost
idemi-god, they draw the curtain over his
leart, they hide from us, under piles of
big words, and empty phrases, WASHING
TON THE Man.
You may take the demi-god, if you like,
4. ri ocway whole volumns of ver-
~ ton on shadow, but, for my
o e Washington the Man.
Fs Man The blood that flowed
n /eins was no Greenland current OF
helted ice, but the warm blood of the
N: fiery as its sun, impetuous as It's
rs. His was the undying love for a
nd: his, the unfathonable scorn for q
mean enemy: his, the inexpressable indig-
nation when the spirit of party-that
crawling thing, half snake, half ape--be-
gan to bite his heel.
like to look at Washington the Man.
Nay, even at Washington the Boy, dress
ed in plain backwoodsman's shirt and
moccaslns, struggling for his life, yonder,
on the raft, tossed to and fro by the waves
and ice of Allegheny river.
Or at Washington the young General,
sitting in his camp at Cambridge, the
map of the New World before him, as,
sword by his side, and pen in hand, he
planned the conquest of the Continent.
Or, yet again, l love to behold Wash
ngton the Despised Rebel, sitting so calm
and serene, among those wintry hills of
Valley Forge, while the Pestilence thins
MS camp and Treason plots its schemes
tor his ruin in Congress. Yes, love to
look upon him, even as he receives the
letter announcing that Cabal, which has
been formed by dishonest and ambitious
men, for his destruction: see the scon
flush his cheek and fire his eye: | hear
the words of indignation ring from his
bps: as look, his broad chest heayes, his
clenched hand grasps his sword.
And yet, in moment, he is calm again;
he has subdued his feelings of Indignation,
not because they are unjust, but from the
sublime reason that the Cause in which
he IS engaged is too high, too holy, for
any impulse of personal vengeance.
Here IS the great key TO Washington s
heart and character. He was a Man of
strong passions and warm blood, vet he
crushed these passions, and subdued this
merry blood, in order to accomplish the
Deiverance of his Country. He ferve1.oo
believed that he was called by d.sns
Deliver the New World. This b, ,mos'
Sas' III fact, the atmosphere of all h re; g
NOns; 1t moulded the entire man tne s.1'g se
Sad prepared the Virginia Plaza IN seeft &c 6
rrOyIncial Colonel, for the great 'story e 5; s
Deliyerer. and ~ ujll
ihey tell me that he was neyts'uHcese suce: - -
y smile. And yet there never sss9
man. whose heart bounded md dired.
was :, @e song and jest, than his. osly
veile5 cause S; for the deep solenh nhe "Srs
ON on her ias ne image his aps5sz( "a = dee
Of Of p;. pea mousapanHs, n, c9a - slelisst ne
oani ol British eyainy, va asnder IeiaIly
st st3S 6 i5ok % Pos.anfss s.. re- C
ne country which he eh,s o county
m m BY the fanss Of Sx:s..s osaa'e ssaa ]
E0ges Of faction, who 0een
'dAd and apbdued dur Ifs'Hf