New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-07-15
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The national birth day was celebrated with nlach +
spirit in New York Besides the grand elspiays ~
ire works provided blythe city government oahus
If n,nsc were stationed in the squares and y. u
Browns statue Of Washington, at Union Square was
arlcurated with imposing ceremonies.
AS The statue is a bronze equestrian figure It has
heep for wears in course of construction, weighs 1ou
tons, and is placed upon a plain granite pedestfal
watching one hundred tons The whole is forty feet
high the statue being fourteen and half feet high.
Ii cost $4,000, and was cast in Chicopee, Mass.
The costume Of the figure is the Continental, the
head being bare, and the hair gathered up and tied
behind. When the shouts which arose on the unvell-
ing Of thestatue had in measure subsidized, says
the Tribune, the Rev. George W. Bethnne delivered
a discourse from the stand
DIR, Betbune commenced by eulogy on Washing
ton as soldier statesman citizen, and father
It was thus he sad that the consummate portrature
of our artist had revealed him to-day. He had not
nut off the Continental uniform, whose quaint rigid
ness was more graceful to eyes than any CLASSIC
| drapery5; nor had he dismounted from the charger
that bore him through the vain fires OF adverse pat
teres but he had ridden from out the horrors OF war;
Ibis heart injured only for its ends OF Justce' caiiy
restraining his proud steed amid the acclaalios u
victorious peace and assured liberty his sworo eyer
welded with strength, tempered by mercy was lri
sheathed not to be drawn again, Tor MS country ioes
Il were vanquished and he knew no other; MS oroao
benign brow was bare in acknowledgment u oul
unanimous love; and as he passed on from the s'et
mast of his glorious deeds into the great future which
would develope the supendous destlnes OF the iaoh
whose life he inaugurated, his hand was stretched
forth with grave gesture, not more IN promise 10
national LOYALTY than in depreciation of the atrocous
U vita unity NV nOaTnr
the Stiffness of sectional jealousy into the blind fury
of fratricidal hate.
Dr.. Bethune dyerged to tile goodness of God in the
rift of Washington, and after contrasting his char
aeter with that of Cromwell and Napoleon, proceeded
TO sneak Of his physical perfection The effects of sin
he said had been so deforming that we were otter
disappointed in the physical accidents Of those We
It loved or venerated But it was not SO with Washing
t ton, His outward form was worthy of his maSnal
n mons soul No ideal of Phdias Or Angelo equalet
his reality Gaze upon him there, his stature reach
D ing the extreme height of kind his long, sneW.
limbs compacted with graceful vgor; his chest roun
and full that his mighty heart might feel no cost1c
ton his proportions harmonious as those OF his soul
9 Init above all, his head-the calm, massive brow
Y aunust in goodness his firm, straight lips eloquent
e though closed of truth and justice the countenanct
Is too conscious of cares for smile, of kindness Tor
n frown-hs whole presence the impcrsonation of hin
self After paying tribute of honor to the munificei
citizens whose generosity had given New York tn
: morning her noblest decoration, and to the arts
=, whom he introduced amid the heartiest applause,
= Betbune closed in these words
:" And now, feloweitizens, not of this State, eSu
as we may at other times, and eNlllt more we WI
= we're born on its imperial sol-n that designation
pt it is not equal to this of the UN1o
hear me and bear witness, that in the name and |
the authority of those who have erected tins statu
IL give it. before God and country to the PEorI
et OF THE UNITED STATES! From the St. Croix to IL
Rio Grande, from the Atlantic to the Pacific shore
Oh it is theirs And you, people of New York, indyld
the trust, but as democracy, shall be its guardian
10 81" Cop SAVE TIE REPUBLIC"