The weekly Placer herald., 1853-10-22
A Severe RebUke.

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vet we cannot suppress 1t. 1t is from the
Buffalo Commercial advertiser.
INGRATITuDE.-SO 1t is true that Mount
Vernon has been sold to spectators. An
old woman peddles canes at ten cents
apece at the door of WaShngton's tomb;
and pretty soon whirIigig and swing
will be erected on the grounds, Il saloon
opened in the venerable mansion, and
along the piazza, through which, with
slow and dignitied step, the best man OF
his age used to walk for recreation, there
will be n line of smokers and tobacco
chewers, with their feet up, guzzllng mint
julips, and talking politics! Will the
Spectators be good enough not to use the
sarcophag, in which are the remains OF
the hero and his wife, for their contempt
Id e penny-getting operations! We hope
that they won't sci! them to Barnum.
Sell Mount Vernon! 1t is akin to that
mean spirit which leaves the resting
places of our great men, unmarke ed, and
almost unknown 1t is akin to that dis
graceful neglect of all obligation, all graf
| itute, which has characterised our Ma
tiona Legs ature. This Dragging coun
try of ours which glorifes itself over its
territory, wealth, enterprise, and ever
extending limits, has permitted Its old
revolutionary soliiers to die in novels, or
starve on beggarly pensions; or sent them,
grown old, feeble, blind, to Subslst on the
cod charity of the alms-house. Our
Wpstminster's Abbey, our st. Paul's,
where are they? Where are the mona
ments to our patriots, our statesmen, our
generals? Briars and thistles overgrow
their graves, or hide the mou'dering ia
blets that mark the spot. If Il commits
sion for foreign consulship or post office
were paid at the heed of each, and the
whole hungry swarm of office seekers set
upon the hun with such prizes IN pros
pect, not one in one thousand could find
them. The paltry spirit of party, refused
a memorial to Clinton; and Legislature
who could not understand or appreciate
ANYTHING that did not belong to party,
dem, ed at their hands. Congress hag-
giles a.d debates over the compensation
which some of the more patriotic of that
misce laneous crowd may attempt TO make
an old soldier, and Squanders thousands
in mileage on useless, and worse than
useless, members.
Well, we don't mean TO get out OF tenn
per: but this exhibition of the remains OF
Washington, and the sale of ginger pop
in his mansion, is something to get angry
about.
We saw q venerable man to-day who
had seen and talked with Washington.
He recollcctcd his stately prc.eure and
had heard the urteranre of his lips. We
were glad IT, take the hand which had
been clnsprd in that of the great chief, TO
listen to the interesting Incidents Of his
life at Philadel phIa-to know EoW he
Ii ed-What was the manner OF his home
life-how he looked, talked and acted.
We seemed 10 lie gazing on one of the
few solitary links that connect this gencr-
alton with IA great age now passed away.
When the venerable face of our intor-
of his youth which were thus called To
mind, and his heart discharged itself OF
it's burden Of love and devotion TO W ash
ington, we could understand something OF
that character Which impressed itself So
indelibly on the age in " hIch he lived and
on the men who were his contemporaries
Congress quarrels and wastes the pub
lie treasure in the Capitol, under the
shadow of the monument that hegs It's
way sIowy " toward the skies, and but a
few miles distant from the scene of his
death and burial. Alas, for the gratitude
of republics! The grave of Madison is
unmarked-almost obliterated. Jefferson
lies amid the rank grass and the brambIes;
the graves of the generals Of the RevoIu-
ton are, many of them, forgotten; and
the country which they have established
and made renowned has consigned to OBJ
srurty the memories of those men whose
lives were marked by her ingrattude.
DEATH OF Coz. MooRE.-CoI. Jacob
B. Moore, late Postmaster Of San Fran
cisco, died at Bellows Falls, VI. Col.
Moore was i'll at Washington, and left
there for his health about four weeks be-
fore his death. Col. Moore had been
out of health for some time, and it is sup
posed that tie great heat of summer ac-
celebrated his death. He was for many
years editor of the New Hampshire
Statesman, of which he was the origina-
tOr-.AHa.
A bachelor friend of ours is about get
ting married for no other reason than to
have some one to take care Of him when
| he is sick. The treatment he received
at fashionable boarding house, when
he last had the ague, has cured him not
only Of single life, but single bedSteads
and SINGLE Mattresses He ordered. he