The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-08-04

A SEVERE REBUKE.-We would the fol
lowing were gentler; yet we cannot sup.
press it;
From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. july 0.
ihgrdtHHde. $50 il is true that Mt. Yer.
mon mas been sold to spectators. An old
woman peddles canes at ten cents apiece by
the deof OF Washington's tomb; and pretty
soon a whiri-gig and swing will be erected
10 the grounds, a saloon opened in the ven.
cradle mansion, and along the piazza. thro'
Which, with slow dignif9d step, the best man
OF me age usedto walk for recreation, there
Wide a line Of smokers aud obacco-cbew-
ers, with their feet up, guzzling mint iuleps
ahd taking politics! Win the spocuIators
De good enough not TO use the sarcopliagi in
"nlch are the remains of the hero and bis
"lie' tor their contemplate penDy-gettino
operation. We hope that they WONT sell
them 10 Bdrnum. ~
sen Mount Vernon! IL is akin to that
moan spirit which leaves the resting places
OF our great meu unmarked and almost nm.
known. IL is akin to that disgraceruI ncg.
iect OF all obligation, all gratitude, which
mas characterized our National Legislature
ms Dragging country of ours which g,orv.
mes itseli over its territory, wealth. enter.
PRISE aud ever extending limits, has per.
mitted It's old, feeble, blind, to subsist on
the cold charity Of the alms.house.
Our Westminster Abbey, our ST ponI,.
where are they! Where the mouumets
70 our patriots, our statesmen, our generals
nr,ars una thistles overgrow their graves. or
niue the Wondering tablets that mark the
spot II o commission for a foreign consul
snip or post office were paid at the bend of
each' and the whole hungry swarms of OF
heo-setkers set upon the hunt with such
P'|es ~ prospect, not ono in one thousand
Gould md tncm. The paltry spirit of pnrtv
reused u memorial TO Clinton; and n Legis.
lature who could understand ar onnrecin,o
any thing that did not belong To party. Con.
gress hughes and debates over The comnen.
sa'oh whlch some Of the more patriotic of
'nu. miscellaneous crowd may attempt TO
"'ae 10 an Old soldier, and sqianders lbuu.
eanas III mileage on useless, aud worse than
useless, members. '"'"
W. saw venerable man TO day who had
seen ana talked with Washington. We
were glad to take the hand which had been
e'aspeu III that OF the grent chief, to listen
~ me interesting Incidents Of his life at
hiiadeiphla-to know how he liyed-how
u consolidated, and acted. When the ven.
eraoie lace OF our informant was lighted
up WIN The memories of his youth which
We're thus called to love and devotion 10
washington, We could understand some.
anlng OF that character which impressed
llseli so indelib'y on the age in which bs liv.
cd and on the men who were his cotemooro
ries. '"P"a
Congress q%uarrels and wastes the public
t.oaSure 10 the Capitol, under the shndow of
tne monument that begs It's way slowly to.
wards the skies, and hut a few miles distant
i,ph Tue scene OF his death and buriaI.-
grave OF Madison is unmarked, almost oh.
jefferson lies amid the RAM,
grass and the brambles; the graves of The
generals OF tho Revolution are, many of
them, forgotteni and the country which
.ney have established aud made renowned,
mas consigned toobscurity the memories of
those men whose lives were marked bv her
ingratitude.