Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-03-14

fence % Was it on that stormy Christmas night,
when by the frozen Delaware, under the driving
sleet and with the very uniform stiffening upon
him, they found the patriot praying amid the
torn banners and bleeding troops of his country?
Was it at Valley Forge, when, as desertion and
death were timing his ranks, and treason, re-
volt and calumny, were Matching mischief in
his tent-when its very threshold was stained
with the blood prints of his bare~footed soldiery
and the air grew heavy with their cries for
bread-he stood up, the great Waterman of the
night, unchilled by the tempest, unawed by the
Toe, cheering his men and giving promise of food,
ralment and brilliant dawn? Was it at York
town, when, after furling the filthy colors of a
king, and driving back his lase and beaten
mlnlons, crouching under the throne from whence
they crawled, we lind him turning his great
mind and talent to the civic policy of his coun-
try, her consolidation, and the restoration of her
| shattered credit and finance? Did Annapolis
witness his browning act, when, on the 23d of
December, 1888, in an address of surprising
beauty and dignity, he SO modestly hung up in
our Halls "his bruised arms for monuments"
and sought the sweet shades of home? Is it in
that admirable State Paper, to which we have
just listened and which comes to us in the last
throes of the Republic, with healing in its wings?
Believe it, the richest rarest, sweetest rays, were
in the setting SUM- And perhaps, one of the
happiest triumphs of Christianity, one of the
most touching instances of the souls communion
with its Creator, and one of the finest lessons for
the study of American youth and the moralist
everywhere. was presented at Mount Vernon.
December 1893, when, high above the hollow
voice of the wind rang out the spirit call, and
the soul of the great Captain passed the portal
and was free.
.sNohing in his life
Became him Ii Ike leaving it;
He died as one that had been studied
In his DEATH
We contemplate the departure of this good
man from earth with soothing sadness, if not
a melancholy pleasure, for we know that "the
hand of the reaper took the ears that were hoary"
We mourn, indeed, but it is with the feeling OF
which we view the closing of the year. when
nature herself is falling to decay and seems to
be putting on the shroud of death. We must
be solemn, for it is memento which comes
home to our own hearts, and tells us, that how
ever bright the tide or proud the wave on which
we ride, they bear lis swiftly to silence and night
| have hastily and feebly drawn for your con-
sderation this morning this rough outline of a
grand picture, in which Washington stands
boldly out upon the canvass. purposed, in
deed could have promised nothing more His
tory has upon its pages the finished painting
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long as we preserve our country, his fame can
not die, for it is reflected from the surface of
everything that is beautiful and valuable in our
land. You cannot recur too often, nor dwell
too long upon the character of such man.
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