Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-08-07

I character which has yet appeared" Nor W
France behind England in her admiration
Z Washington. Notwithstanding the uneasy I
lations OF the two countries at the time OF B
} desease. when the news OF his death reach'
Paris. the youthful and fortunate soldier, wi
had already reached the summit OF power
paths which Washington could never have tro
commanded the highest honors 10 be paid
him. A solemn funeral sefyiee was Performe
in the "Invalides," in the presence OF oil 'hu
was most eminent In Paris. "a scrrowiu
cry" said Foniares, the orator s' usen BY Ma
spoleon for the oecasion, "has reached us iron
AmvJicn, which he liberated !, belongs 4
France to yield the frs. tcsronse 10 the lau'en
ia,ion whichwill be echoed BY every great sorl
Thesc august arches have been well chosen fci
the apotheusis Of hero.
4 How often, IN those ytill seeres 6i her ievo.
luton. when the best blood df Frdnce was
shed by the senorsecss and cphemeral tyrants
who chased each other, aogget III hand ntfcs:
that dismal stage Of crime and woe during The
reign OF terror--how often did fhe thought:
Of Lafayette and his companions in arms, who
had fought the battle OF constitutional liberty
HI America; call up the Image ii the pure, the
lust; the huRiare; the tinumbitious Washing
ton How different would haze been The fate
OF France il her victofiods cheftain, when he
had reached the giddy heights Of power had
initiated the grca, esalhple tcliich he eulogi,ed I!
He might have saved his country from being
crushed by the lcagued hosts Of Europe he
might have prevented the names of Moscow
and Waterloo from being written In lcttets of
blood on NE pages Of history; he might haze
escaped himself from the sad signifcante OF
those memorable wordsof Fontaincs, ON the
occasion to which have alluded, when, in the
presence of Napoeohi he SPOKE of Washing.
ion as man who, ''by destiny seldom shared
BY those who change the fate Of empires, died
in peace, as private citizen, in his iatite land,
where he had held the first rank, and which
he had himself made free"
How different would have been the fate df
Spain, Of Naples, of Greece, Of Germany, OF
Mexico, a,td the South American Republics,
had their receh; revolutions been conducted by
men like Washington and his patriotic associ-
ates, whose prudence, patriotism, probity, and
disinterestedness conducted DIR Revolution to
an auspicious and honorable result
But it is of course at home that %e must
Iook for an adequate appreciation Of our
Washingtons name and WORTH He is tht.
friend OF other countries he is the father of
his own. own, Mr.. Mayor, that 1t has been
to me source Of inexpressbe satisfaction to
find, amidst all the bitter dissentions of the
day. that this one great sentiment, veneratlon
for the name Of Washington, is planted down
in the very depths of the American heart. 1t
has been my privilege within the last two
years to hold it up to the reverend contempla.
tion of my countrymen from the banks o! the
Penobscot TO the banks of the Savannah, from
New York to St. Louis, from the Chesapeake
Bny to Lake Michigan, and the same reri-
mens, expressed in the same words, have eve.
in the American heart.
TO that central attrac ion have been de.
lighted to find the thoughts, TIE affections, the
memories of the people, in whatever part of
the conntry-from the ocean to the praires of
The West; from the land Of granite and ice to
the land of the palmetto and the magnolia
ins,inctively turn. they have their sectional
loves and hatreds, but before the dear name of
Washington they arc absorbed and forgotten
In what ever fegion Of the country, the heart
of paroniSm warns to him; as in the starry
heavens, with the crcling Of the seasons, the
POINTERS go round the sphere, but their direc-
ton is ever towards the pole. "They may
point from the East, they may point from the
West, but they will point TO the Northern star"
1t is not the brightest star in the heavens as
men account brightness, but is always in its
Mace The meteor kinded into momenfary
blaze from the rank vapors of the lower sky, is
briobter. The comet is brighter that stream,
H.. Er,,,,,rent
"And from his horril hair
Shakes pestilence AMI war;"
But the meteor explodes, the comet rushes
,ack to the depths of the heaven, while the
oad star shines steudy Mt the pole, alike in
summer and in winter, in seed time and in
harvest, at the equinox and the sostice. 1t
,hone for Columbus at the discovey of America;
t'.hone for the pioneers of settlement, the pill. |
rrims of faith and hope, at Jamestown and
Plymouth; it will shine for the marine who
shall enter your harbor tonight: it will shine
Tor the natives which shall benr the sleeping
thnnders of your power, while the flag of the
Union shall brave the battle and the breeze
So, too. the character, the counsels, the exam
ple of our Washington, of which you bid me
sneak; he guided our farthers through the
storms Of the Revolution: he will guide us
through the doubts and difficulties that beset
US; he will guide our children and our children's
children in the paths of prosperity and peace
while America shall hold her place in the FAM
ly Of nations.
The New NAVAL VEssELS.--The Washing
on Star, of the 26th ult., says.
The Secretary of the Navy, as yet, has NOT
definitely decided whether the new vessels au-
thnrized TO be constructed bY recent act Of