The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-02-02

Let Us Tor few moments survey the
various epochs OF the youth Of Washing.
ton.
A, the age OF ten years he is left an
orphan; from the hour Of his fathers
death, he is educated by his widowed
mother.
A. the age Of fourteen miishipman's $
warrant 10 offered to him, with brilliant
prospect OF naval glory in the distance.
He accepts the warrant his destiny
seems trembling in the balance-when
his mother, who already saw noble tho
a,re open before her boy, induces him to
surrender the idea ut an ocean life.
He is seventeen when he takes up the
instruments OF the surveyors craft. and
crossing the Alleghanies, he beholds for
the first time the customs OF the Indian
people. Three years pass, and he is a
pilgrim amid the forms of external ma
tare.
We behold him on the ocean, amid the
terror of its storms. and very near the
doom OF its snipwrecks. His hear, pill
lows the head Of dying brother; he &C.
companies Laurence Washington on
voyage to Barbados, and is absen, on
the ocean, and on the shores of strange
land, from the fall OF 1851 until the spring
of 1852
When Laurence dies, his young bro
,her, George Washington, youth of
twenty years, is appointed executor of his
immense estates.
AT the age of twenty-one, lie is desig-
mated by the Governor Of Virginia, as
Commissioner 10 trea, with the hostile
Frencn and their Indian Allies, who
threaten our western borders In pursuit
of the object of this mission, he journeys
$50 miles into the trackless wilderness.
He is twenty-five when he mingles IN
battle; his sword is unshea,hcd July 3D.,
1854, a the fight of the Great Meadow.
And at the age Of twenty three, July
9th, 1865, lie shares the danger Of Brad
docks field, and saves the wreck Of tke
defeated army.
The great epochs Of the youth OF Wash
lngton are written III the preceding par
agraphs. A wonderful youth in Deed!
From the com.non school house into the
untyodden wilderness; from the couch Of
A glng brother, into the terror of battle.
Washington had already lived lie, be-
fore ne was twenty- three years old.
Lei as, my friends, write the unwrit-
ten history Of Washington. TO, the dim
outline which history sketches, but the
picture Of the man wi h color, shape,
h(e, aud voice. Yes, life, for as we 60
on, among the shrlnes OF the past the
dead Will tive with Us, and theyoice too
for as we question the ghosts oil other
days, they will answer Us, although the
shadows Of hundred years brood over
their graves.
And ere we hasten forth upon our
Journey, let US for moment compare the
youth OF Washington with the boyhood oil
Arnold.
Washington, nourishcd 10y tie counsel Of
a mother surrounded by powerful friends,
aud with many a kind hand for his brow
when 1t was stricken with fever, many a
kind voice Tor his heart when it was hca.
W with sorrow.
Arnold, a frendless boy, left by all III
temperate iatAcr to the world, guided, it
it is true, Y kind mother. bnt mother
W saw the clouds of misfortune lover
ing upon her path. and felt the heaviest
blows Of misery upon her breast,
A contrast OF terri Is meaning.
Washington learns from bis mother TO
bear all, TO suffer all. and to hold n,
through calm and storm to the right.
Washington becomes the man of t}e
world.
Arnold, the" gh swayed for while by
the lessons Of us mother, learns the Bit
ter lesson which the world teaches to bin
learns by heart 10 return hate with hate,
and fling wrong into The face OF wrong.
Arnold becomes the omen of world
Learn from tals the awful importance
OF ,Hose early influences which shape the
mind and mould the hrart. Youth is
'cnder plant-bewarc how YOU tread up
omit! Nurse il generously, and one day
it will bloom before you il manhood OF
Washington. Crush il aud it will one
day wound your heel with The serpent
sting OF Arnold
And while We read together tie great
lesson Of WasAingtons youth, and trace
side hy side tie gradual steps BY which
hc rose 10 greatness, let Us never forget,
that there was one blessing Which folio :
cd like good angel and breas sd upon
his soul the very atmosphere OF Heaven.
!" The memory Of Mary, bis Mother
Il Loreiy Qn,ea.-A correspai den, OF
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