Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-08

TnEoDoaE PARKER in imitation, perhaps, of
Mr. Everett is giving his views of the life and
character of Washington. In his lecture on
washington, tho Man of Integrity" we find
these sentences:
In June 1874, he was chairman of the com.
uittee that drafted the Fairfax Resolves, and
they declared that no slaves ought to be import
ed into any of the British colonies on this cOnti-
nent They express their wish to have an en-
tire stop put forever TO this wicked cruel and
unnatural work" When lafayette bought a
plantation on one of the French Islands, for the
| purpose of emancipating the slaves, Washington
wrote to hiin-"I should be happy to join you
in so noble a work. Would to God like spirit
would infuse itself into the minds of the people
of Virginia. But despair of it. By degrees
| it might be done. Decidedly, it ought to be
effected, and that by the legislative authority.
He sought to promote the emancipation OF all
slaves in Virginia. This could not be done -
I At last, by his WILL he sets free all his own
boHdmen, their deliverance to take place at the
death of his wlfe-it could not before; and he
charges his executors to see that this clause re-
speeding the slaves be religiousy fulfilled, with
out evasion, neglect delay. Here he was
superior to his age; here find proof of his
religious character.
| have heard it stated that Washington was
not great soldier. Certainly he created an
army out of the toughest material and out gen.
eralled everything that Britain sent against him;
and in the midst of opposition, organized vic
| tory. He was not brilliant nor rapid; he was
slow, defensive, and victorious. He knew how
to make empty bag stand upright, which
Poor Richard says is hard thing.
Washington Is the first man of his type
| When will there be another? As yet American
rhetoricians do not tell half of his excellence,
because they are afraid the people cannot COM
prehend il. Cromwell was the greatest Anglo
Saz tl,,F In
tellect he was superior to Washington, in integ-
riiy UNNECESSARILY below him. Washington new
er disSembed-he sought nothing for himself /;
| in him there is no unsound spot, save his wrath,
and that is hardly unsound-rather q protuber-
snce than weak spot. There is nothing little
| OF mean his character. The whole was clean
and presentable think better of mankind be-
cause he lived, enriching the earth with life so
! full of humanity. Shall we max an idol of him?
| Worship him with huzZas on Fourth of Julys
and stupid rhetoric the rest of the yearg Shall
we build him great monument and bottom it
in slave pen they may do it who like. His
| glory is already written on the continent More
than two hundred places bear his name. He is
entrenched in the great earth works Of Ameri-
ca. The people are his monument. The In
dams understand him. The New York Indians
say Washington alone of all white men, has
been admitted to the Indian heaven. There,
opposite the gate where the good Indians go in,
there is, in park, palace which is General
WashingtOn's home. There every Indian sees
him, with his military coat, and his great hat,
and hiS::sword by his side. With revercnt.hom-
age they salute tine great man; he returns the
salutaticn, his hand upon his sword, but says
nothing. Such says the Indian, is his reward
FROM the Great Spirit, for his justice to the red
men. God be Thanked for such men:
"sous supreme in each hard instinct tried,
Above all pain, all passion and all prids
The rage Of power, the blast OF public breath
The love OF lucre, the dread OF death"