The Washington union., 1857-05-23


institutions of the State alone their end is at hand
The church cannot control the State 1t must be IN n
ordination to the State
The new board OF commissioners are still at their wnt
The of collision between the two forces is abroad
daily and timid people greatly alarmed Tod
the conflict may The Draper board has trid
Mr. Matse the chief Of police for nsubordination H
not present He does not recognise the new atho
ities He was dismissed from Office His place was an,
piled by one of the revolving captains who went over @
Mayor Wood To-day the demand viii be made On MAJ
sell for his Office books and papers The demand Win
be resisted, when we viii see what VIII follow
MANHATTAN.
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g Waahiagoa il Dogac9;s Life from Original Lts and aau
&rgt, BY Richard Rush Philadelphia j. D. Iiu.
pincott s Co., 1851" s-yo., PIP. s.
We have here little body Of such memorials Of Ina
greatest Of all characters euogy however unstint
seems thus far have dreaded to present. as IT, in truth
there were sort Of irrcyerenoe in bringing to view M
most ustTious Of men in other aspects than the sk
hcroic ones as if the utmost glory Of the public vit
could by any possibility, stand spart from those private
ones which are not only their very source but the bright
compliment that rounds out their circle and in short
as II there natures entirely elevated that er
ht them in the plain light of the personal affections
would be to yuIgarize them. Who that really great
could bear to be without the compensations Of loving
and being loved What could be intolerable bur
den than grandeur from which one was never to soOu
power that must have relaxation, majesty that was
to allow no approach Happily, there is for true up
riority no such hard condition. ON the contrary he
greater that superiority the easily is it ever wom
The false alone needs to be trickei out all the while
was not wisdom but the conscious lack Of IT. that frs
invented gravity; and power began to wrap ief
in state its counteFfe until il knew itself to be growing
too weak to go naked. If there be familiarity that
breeds contempt it only he where such contempt
merited and if the modern axiom that nobody isa
hero to his yaIet-dc- -chambre be true ii only proves
that our heroes and are Of much tho
same stuff
Not one OF that sort OF fctitios heroes whom mere
buzz has made and the opinion OF valois can unmake
was he whose more familiar doings We have here Could
the lackeys the lying yaets of his day. the culenda
crew that set at him, have unheroed him. never
would his the most purely great of all ustous names
have down to with the slightest honor Certain
w. whole host Of such worthless did their utmost to con.
vince the world that he ought he cxecated instead q
being aimire One in particular, very eloquent and
extremely patriotic person, male it plain as possible
by his speeches and by resolutions which he offered
Congrrss that George Washington was ANYTHING but
friend 10 American freedom and deserved al our hands
sort Of gratitude Strange to say however though
the testimony OF these political Wallets who had been
skuking while he lighting and had been intriguing
while he trying 10 secure ps by good government
the freedom he had won for us In though the te
timony cf these Wallets, say, shcek for time what
should have stood firm and fas-sct as the rocky
hills I'VE the popular confidence and affection to-
wards the most conspicuously yirtuous citizen that
vedl yet il was bat for little time that the peoples
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speedily rallied again to be disturbed it had been
shaken only just enough 10 settle II forever Ienoec
LET whatever else that is of popular instability vary M
doctrines change they have changed let passions fu
tuate as they may until. in their wild excesses every
thing else that is safe good SHALL in the folly Of tho
hour be set at naught still 50 long as there shall
left in this country ANYTHING Of law 20 ba veneiaed
OF liberty to be loved the name Of George Washington
will forever be to every American the great household
word Of all national affection, the rallyng cry Of all civil
duty when danger calamity shall have So long
shall be happy, must hail the galdenng bright
of his example and the utmost darkness Of our pub
lie fortunes VII only all eyes the more to that star
of our safety.
But to speak more particularly of whacyer gives value
- e present collection il consists Of series Of near
thirty letters addressed by General Washington to TeN
Lear who long his private secretary and possessed
his utmost personal confidence. They relate mainly TO
domestic life and matters of private business but
sometimes advert TO public questions and events The
dates run from September, 1929, to August, 1898 g
that they begin about Ear after his accession TO h
presidency they end before his death They are not
given entire, nr often they were marked pred an ~
junction which the editor has very justly thought by no
TO be lightly disrcgaryled while in other in
stances, the text made up Of details such could
have sort Of interest st an analysis is given a
whatever Is thus emitted 80 that tho actual oonten
and character Of each letter put before MS which
just rs IL should be- For though we would read much
Of General Washingtons remains than Of any Other
mans merely because they were his we should not choose
to lessen by everlasting reverence OF the written
records Of his everyday life wish 10 disclosed
merely enough to show that the excellence OF his doms
tic character entirely matched the gTesness Of his public
o,d,c. in all its parts one wos1 Ike to examine the
mighty actor not simply on the stage, but pehind uS
scenes 10 yey the hero in his doublet well as np
harness and the fight For we all know 90 well the c0h
trasts which the pabc life often ors to tho private
that we cannot be satisfied until having looked ON bo'ni
we say as Pope does OF SIR Robert walpolc
+" Seen him have but in his happier hour
OF social pleasure III exchanged iur power;
Seen him, unclrnbered by the oourtly tribe,
Smile without art AMI win without bTibe
Certainly there never existed las we have already ln'
mated, the lofty and unadOrned greatness Of WHOSE
virtues civil and military 50 much assured did hO
Of Washington. everything that most becomes pVa'
life and makes II happy And, indeed, nothing sho's
strong though uneSpresscd feeling Of this truth can ~
count for the fact That our co,ntymen have heretofore