The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-08

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swhS9 It Ne RssteeatioD. Louis XVIII re-.
nsnedto HGfis, and Was received Win dom.
6satiShs a. welcome ~ the pepulaes, IL ODD
,ial Monis.Mr Of the following day put In bis
mouth some pithy observations most apt for the
occasion. .but never said anything Of the /
lind" said the King to one Of bic Court when |
,e read Il "Sirs," replied The ohicial, 81 .
accessory Aat yosr Naiaty skosad hax said o.. 4
s Somewhas 70 with JeG Davis inaugural, tho
L vas, no desbt, psonounced BY him - printed |
In reading y We must bear In mind that he vss
under necessity Of saying what be6tted the oc-
casiop. with little reference 70 facts, or exsct
ness Of statement His position required him 70
nreseut the most hopeful and encouraging g.
nects Of the struggle into which he may be- ssid
himself to have plunged the people Of the Con
federate States
He would have played his role very badly In
deed in the drama that was being enacted, II be
had yentured NOON candid and sincere exposi-
ton Of the real state Of affairs Necessity %
manager, had written down his part for him, and
be could not deviats without spelling the play,
and being, q the theatrical phrase has It,
slammed" by boxes, pit and gallery. The select
audience would not permit even star perform
q Nick Bottom, the Weaver" He must roar 10
character.
The august ceremonial Of Inauguration, In the
accounts given Of it in the Richmond papers, Sc
rious as they are, seems more like burlesque
than the solemn Inauguration Of :" . permanent
government" by men in their right wits. Yet
we doubt not the crowd of adventurers, +. +.
coxcombs, swaggerers, lavish Of "the last drop
of blood" but careful Of the first, behaved with
all the solemnity betting such an occasion.
The ceremonies, it appears by the programme.
took place upon platform erected for the pur-
pose, against the east front Of the Washington
monument To this JEFF. refers in his exordium:
"On this, the birthday of the man most identi-
fed with the establishment off American Inde-
pendence, and beneath the monument erected to
commemorate has heroic virtses and those of his
con,patriots, we have assembled" &c. The stage
is described o. extending from the pedestal In
front Of the statue Of Mason to that in front Of
Jefnson."
That Monument in Capitol Square, Richmond,
is one of the noblest works Of art in America
Those who have seen aud studied it, unite in
Epronouncing it alike worthy Of the great subject
and Of the distinguished artist Crawford, who
designed and partially executed the work. The
main figure is a colossal equestrian statue Of
Washington. Around it, upon subordinate pc
destals, are statues Of life size, of Jefferson Hem
ry, Mason and -virginia's sons in the pc.
Rod when she produced heroes and statesmen Of
honest renown in all time.
These figures are in bronze, cast ct the royal
foundry, Munich. The monument itself is de.
signed to commemorate to posterity genuine be.
roism and patriotic devotion. The very shadow
even the very steps of that noble monumental
structure, are chosen as the place of inauglra-
ting government founded upon the overthrow
Of that which those great men organized, and
having as its ''corner stone, that slavery which
they one and all abhorred The utterance to.
day by either of the four Virginians named, Of
the sentiments they promulgated, in their life.
times, would cause him or them to be driven
from ''the sacred soil" of Virgins, as "Aboli
tionists" aud traitors to the Davis Confederacy.
1t was the presence Of these magnificent efkgies
of the founders OF the National Government,
that the arch consprators chose for displaying
before the world their formal organization for
its overthrow. With impious lips, the Chief
pretended to invoke such an example in justi6-
cation of his crime. How applicable the fol.
lowing words Of Washington to this scene en-.
acted near his statue:
''Ihe Constitution sohich at amy time EXISTS, TIL
changed by an erphcit and authentic act of the
sO1ole people, is sacredly obligatory upon aA The
very idea Of the power and the right Of the peo-
pie to establish government, pre- supposes THE
DUTY OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL TO OBEY THE EsrA b
LIsBED GOVERNMENT"
Again: 81
However combinations or associations Of
the above description may now and then answer
popular ends, they are likely, in the course of
time and things, to become potent engines, by
which CUNNING, AMBITIOUS AND UN.
PRINClPLED MEN ,ciN be enabled to s,sbuert The
alo,re.. off he .,.oslo <,.JTn YYCHnD EnD mupM
SELVES THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT"
The assemblages there that day, we may we'll
suppose, was made up in no small part, of an
empty and pretentious class of Virginans, fop-
lings proud Of ancestry whose virtues are grown
obsolete. But Virginia surely is not without
some men in whom ''the ancient spirit il not
dead" Let US imagine such an one present on
that occasion. As he regards first that magniR-
cent monument, and the silent figures of Vir
ginia's heroic men, and then turns and listens to
the specious harangue Of the living trickster,
demagogue and traitor, must he not be reminded
of the degenerates of another age and country,
who "built the tombs of the prophets and gar
nished the sepulchres of the righteous" but
were ready to stone him who should follow such
just example!
Was it not Washington who said cit is my
most ardent wish to see some plan of smanci-
patton adopted in Virginia."
Did not Jefferson say 10 reference to slavery:
II tremble for my country when remember that
God is just, and that justice cannot sleep for
ever. The Almighty has no attribute that could
take sides with US in such a contest"
And Mason-quite another from him of that
name who figures now-declared in the most
forcible language, the dangerous and corrupting
tendencies of slavery in its effects upon the
Patrick Henry (whom the sculptor has repre-.
sented in the attitude of high wrought passion,
in which he might be imagined when he exclaim-
ed, "Give me liberty or give me death!') bore
bis testimony no less emphatic against that sys-
tenn by which Virginia makes men and women
one Of her two staple crops for the market.
Regarding that whole scene together, and
thinking Of the dissertation Of that presence BY
such pageant of treason, one might almost
have expected the spirits of the mighty dead to
utter audible rebuke through the bronze lips of
the statues erected to their memory.-St. Louis
Democrat
DEATH OF GEN. LANDER.-The brave and chiy.
alric Gen. Lander is no more Last evening the
melancholy tidings reached us that he died du.
ring the afternoon at Paw Paw, in Western Vir-
ginia This intelligence will fall mournfully
upon the country in its hour of general rejoicing.
The nation could lily spare SO good man and
10 daring soldier at this juncture
Frederick w. Lander was born in Nassachu.
setts, and was BY profession an engineer. In
1889 he surveyed the great wagon road to
California, and soon after his return was brought
prominently before the public a. the second of
the Hon. John F. Potter, when he was challenR.
ed by that pink Of Virginian chivalry, Roger 4.
Pryor. By his judicious management Of that
case he enabled Mr. Potter to vindicate the rep.
resentatives Of the North against the bragearts
OF the South, When Pryor declined to fight
Potter with Bowie.knives, Lander politely offer
ed to espouse the cause Of his principal, and
give the Virginian the choice Of any weapon he
pleased, but Pryor discreetly declined. That
affair put stop to the insolence of the chvalry
IN the United States House of Representatives
for some time, and taught them to mend their
plantation manners
When the Southern rebellion broke out. Gen.
eral, then Col. Lander, threw himself into the
struggle in behalf Of the Union, and was detailed
to Western Virginia, under Gen. Mcclellan
There he participated with Col. Kelley in the
attack upon Phillippi on the Sd Of June. and
distinguished himself throughout that brilliant
campaign, which eliminated in the victor len Of
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