Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-04-05
An Eloquent Aiiusion TO wash
ingtOn.

AS my friend Mr.. Cochrane was speak
ing, | recalled to my memory the fact,
that nine years ago sailed down anoth-
er stream 1.-THE Bosphorus) to see the
great capital of the Orient, where | visit
ed the tomb of the great Sultan Mahom-
med, who there resoses amid the nina
rets and domes of that magnificent city
of the Turk. l well remember that be-
fore | was permitted to go within the
hallowed precincts of that tomb, dressed
as it was in the rich cashmere shawls of
the East, and built of the pearls of the
Orient, was compelled by the vigilant
january to unsandal my feet before l
could pay that homage to the hero of Ma
hommedanism. But | was reminded by
the scene at Washington's s tomb to-day,
that in America we do not walk around
that awful shrine of patriotism with un-
sandled foot; nor is it guarded from pro.
fame touch and Times decaying finger
by the patriotic hero-worship of this land
(Cheers.) And when | compare the
Government which Washington estab-
lished and the civilization in which he
lived and worked with that government
and civilization on the far Bospborus,
which the great Sultan carved out with
his bloody scimeter-have we not reason
to be ashamed at the ignoble manner with
which the American treats his departed
hero, com pared to the noble tribute which
the Moslem pays to his Departed Great?
(Applause.) | now see before me the
gentleman to whose courtesy | was in
debted. while in Constantinope, for these
facilities of observation. l refer to Mr..
DANES. the United States Consul at that
city. He will remember that we passed
many regrets that the American people
were so careless of the tombs of their
great men as to let them rot in decay,
even when they are so fortunate as to
know the burial spots of their heroes; while
even the heather and the Turk cared so re-
ligiously for theirs! Loud applause.
All over the world examples may be
found which are lessons to us in this re-
gard. Could you go to Naples, you will
find beyond the Grotto of Posillippo,
where the soft waves of that delightful
bay make their music on the shore-the
tomb of the great Latin poet, Virgil
Men from every cline go thither to pay
their homage TO his tomb, although two
thousand years have gone since his Epic
was given to the world. His tomb is yet
the mausoleum of Genius. 1t is respect
ed, protected and honored. Some of
you have visited the tomb of Walter
Scott, at Dryburgh Abbey, and have not
only admired it's beauty and its repose,
but have admired the vigilant care with
which it is guarded and protected
Go to Rome! Beneath St. Peters Ba-
silica, you will find there the tombs Of
the Apostles Peter and Paul. They are
guarded ever by priestly vigilance, and
around them burn the evertrimmed
lamps of religious veneration. At Paris,
the great Napoleon sleeps, honored in
death beyond all human conquerors, in
the Hotel des Hcalides, surrounded by g
hundred banners, emblems of his victories
and his genius!
England has her Westminster Hall
wherein is enshrined her royal line, and
by higher heritage n line of genius, from
Chaucer, who sang the dawn of English
verse, to Macaulay, who illustrated hel
history in the undying eloquence of his
prose. France has her St. Dennis, the
last abode of her kings. and Paris has its
Pantheon, in whose vaults her literary
demigods are immortalizedl
But pass these "reminiscences by. W.
have tomb which l trust, in the future
will be cared for and protected; and as
long as woman is the watcher, her pa
tience and faith will guard it with vesta
vigilance. Applause.
1t is neither Il trite nor an untrue say
ing. that if a man bears the blade Of pat
riotism, woman is the jewel in it's hilt.---
Applause. She has and ever will make
that jewel shine, wherever there is a fail
opportunity and an enobling civilizatio on
Loud applause.
Why has this association Of American
women been formed? For the purpose
of purchasing; preserving, reclaimin2
and protecting that spot we have us
left so sacred in our historic annals ant
in the nations memory. 1t is because
the man who there lies buried was not the
mere hero of novel-not the mere hero
of to-day--not the mere soldier who
achieved with his sword his own fortune
not your Sultan Mahmoud or Emper
or Napoleon. who, with bloody ambition
created an Empire on the Bosphorus or
dynasty on tho Seine. The career o
these heroes of the battlefield is as yon
der blood red moon, just risen above thu
Potomac applause compared with thu
bright eflnlgcnce OF the MONDAY sun
which shines, with no borrowed light, a.
an auriole around the memory of Georg,
Washington Applause He can be ad
dressed at this day, when he is so canon
lied in our hearts, only in the languag,
of that poetry which has likened him t.
the brightest imagery which the matera
uuinerse can furnish, lie has been spo
ken as the illastrious but lost Pieiad il
our American constellation. One of ou
poets has sung tho song of that los. sta
as the requiem of the departed Great ant
Good; and his nolas words might hav
been set to the sad dirge-like music whicl
our hand hero has Just played at tomb;
Wall for the glorious Pleiad fled.
Wall for the ne'er returning star.
Whose mighty music ever led
The spheres in their high homes Affair."
Bring burial weed snd sable plume.
What! lift the funeral song Of woe,
Such as should ore the loved ones tomb
In sorrows tenders accents tow7
All! FRrEDoN's kindling MINSTREL No.
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