The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-02-28
THE HAWK-EYE


AS "Wednesday, February IS.
IN MEMORY OF WASHINGTON.
The one hundred the thirty-frst anniversary
Of Washingtons Birthday should recall to
every American the great virtues and the
llus'rious character Of the Father of his
Country.
The name Of Washington stands at the COM
mencement Of q new era. The discovery Of
the new world BY Columbus in 1892, and the
Landing of the Pilgrims in 1920, would have
been comparatively barren of results, had not
Providence raised up Washington, to be the
chief founder Of . great nation, whose basis
was laid in the rights of man. To him, under
God, we owe it, that we are q nation, and that
We have government, without throne, with.
out an aristocracy, and without castles, orders,
or privileges. Washington is the representa-.
tive of the peculiar greatness and glory Of
America, and of the grand ideasth belong to
our political system. The reverence Of our
people for his memory, and our approxima-
ton to his character, must therefore always be
the true measure Of the nations virtue and
glory. His qualities, says Bancroft, were so
faultlessly proportional, that his, whole coun.
try claimed him as its choicest representative,
the most complete, expression of all its attain
ments and aspirations His countrymen felt
that he was the best type of America, and re-
joiced in it, and we're proud Of it. They lived
in his life, and made his success and his praise
their own. s i9 p
The genius and eloquenee of all lands have
We'd with each other in tributes to his fame
And whenever in other lands America is spoken
of for honor and praise, it is called the coun-
try of Washington In every quarter Of the
globe his name is spoken with, eulogy and adj
mira,ion. ''The Arab of the desert talks of
hun in his tent, and his name is familiar to the
wandering Scythian. % s3Q .'4l.s3
20 From Bancrofts beautiful tribute to his
character we make the following extracts:
~ ''They say of Giotto, that he introduced
goodness into the art Of painting; Washington
carried it with him to the camp and the cab.
met, and established 9 new criterion of shu-
man greatness. The purity Of his will con-
frmed his fortitude; and as he never faltered
in lis faith in virtue, he stood fast by that
which he knew to bel just Never detected by
difficulties and perils, he drew the promise Of
success from the justice Of, his, cause. He
loved fame, but no fear of censure or prospect
of applause could tempt him to swerve from
rectitude; and the praise which he coveted was
the sympathy of that moral sentiment which
exists in every human breast and goes forth
only to the welcome Of virtue. ioa 9g ii -
profoundly impressed with confidence in
Gods providence, and exemplary in his re-
-spect for the forms of public worship, no phi.
losopber Of the eighteenth century was more
firm in the support Of freedom Of religion.
opinions; none more tolerant, or more remote
from bigotry; but belief in God. and trust in
His overruling power formed the essence of hi.
character. Divine wisdom not only illumire.
the spirit, it inspires the will. Washington
was man of action, not of theory or words
His creed appearsi in his life, not in professions
but his whole being was one continued act o.
faith in the eternal, intelligent, moral order c,
of the universe Integrity was go completely
the law Of his nature, that planet would
sooner have shot from its sphere, than he have
departed from his uprightness. i .l
'There have been soldiers who have achiey.
ed mightier victories in the field; statesmen who
have been connected with more startling up.
heavels of society; but it is the greatness o.
Washington, that in public trusts he used
power solely for the public good; that he wa,
the life, and moderator, and stay of the. most
momentous revolution in human affairs il,
moving impulse and its restraining power.-
Combining the centripetal and the centrifupa
forces in their utmost strength, and in perfect
relations, with creative grandeur Of intellect
he held ruin in check. and renewed and per
fected the institutions Of his country. Find
ing the colonies disconnected and dependent
he left them such united and well ordered
commonwealth as no visionary had believed t,
be possible. r,.f 4, !; 90,
"rhis is he who Was raised up to be not tn,
head of party, but the Father Of his Country.
III ANOTHER ConvEs1los !AIs is stated that
call will be issued in few days for Conven
a ton Of oil the Democrats elected to the mex
Congress, 70 be held in New York on the 9Th O
March next, for the purpose Of determining tb
policy to be, pursued by that party in reference
4 to the war! It will be an Interesting ASSEMBLE
a.-almost a. much 90 as that of the malignan
copperheads called together by the comics
''martyr," Aahony, on the 4th Of the same month
The only difference viii be, that in Mahony'
Convention, auwil Be unexceptionably cooper
heads" In the other, If al meet who are inclu.
ded in the call, We believe there will be foun,
. few loyal and patriotic men. But We fear tn
few will not number more than the .just mer
required Of old to save the Cities of the Plain
from destruction.
PRICES IN RlcHxoND.-The following is tn,
latest Richmond list Of prices for necessary ar.
ticles which has come our notice: Mems boots