Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-11-08
Nineteenth of October.

stranger Witnessing the parade of 10 day
might possibly suppose it an exhibition o
American sympathy with the great victory o
The allies at Sevasiopol. 1t is in honor of a bat
tie on a far smaller scale, but in which mightie,
beings figured, and which was followed by re-
suits such as throw in utter insignfcance the
consequences of all the great battles which have
since rent the face of Europe From the death
struggle of British power on this continent. a
nation was born, nation Graded in battle and
baptised in blood, now the greatest and noblest
nation on the face of the earth. The victories
of the Crimea are but the vulgar victories of a
war of kings against kings. in which the mass.
es of their people have no interest, and which
are followed by no beneficial results to the
world at large. The seige of Yorktown involv.
ed the whole soul of all America, the fate of
Anglo-Saxon liberty on a continent, the high
est interest of world.
1t was beautifully said by Daniel Webster,
in illustrating the extent of British power and
territory, that the morning gun of Britain, be-
ginning with the sun, and travelling with the
hours, echoes around the globe. tits truth as
high above that truth in moral sublimity and
significance, las the heaven is above the cath. that
the victorious guns at Yorktown, beginning with
the rising sun of American liberty, procaming
everywhere the march of human progress, and
travelling with the centuries will be echoed from
age to age, over the boundless tract of Tine.
What contrast between the leading per-
sonages in that great contest, and the pigmy
warriors who are strutting their brief hour of
triumph at Sevastopol. Compare St. Arnaud
with Lafayette or Raglan with Hamilton, or
all the soldiers of Sevastopol, and of every
country and of every age, with GEORGE WASH
INGTON! The intellectual and moral excellen-
cies of all combined would not make one like
him,
"The Worlds one Washington"
Scarcely had Washington departed from tie
earth, aud while the horizon was yet radient
with his descended sun, when the frey orb of
Napoleon arose; the gre.test couqueror, and
the greatest military genius, except Julius
Caesar, whom the world has ever seen. But
the lustre of a name which set the earth on
fire, could not cause the glory of WASHINGTON
for an instant to become DIM The Corsican
could equal the American hero, perhaps surpass
him, in the CAPABILITIES of soldier but never
could he approach, nor dared he even aspire
to approach the dimensions of that mighty
soul. Napoleon lived for himself
for the world; and the world, grateful benefac-
ton, has given him the first place in her heart
and the first rank among her immortals.
We look in vain, even iu orr own country,
for such man as WAsHINGToN; aye, in vain
among all our public characters, for one who
strives TO make WAsHINGToS his model
There may be, in the shades of private life,
WASHINGTON, unknown to his countrymen and
to the world, but were he launched from lis re-
.;rA'nnni r.nou the eaplicious waters of the po-
Principle his polar star, the inconsistent waves
would clamor for his destruction before his voy-
age had been fairly begun. Thank God, we
have had one WASHINGTON, and to his memory,
honor of the browning military achievements
of our patriot hero! Let us surround his ma
jestic brow with chapplet made, not Of lurels
dyed in the wars of vulg gar ambition, but of
leaves, fresh and full of life, plucked from the
tree of victory, that blossomed amid the battle
field of Yorktown, ana yielded fruit for the
healing the nations. Richmond Dispatch.