The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-28
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fFro1I The Brooklyn Dafzy Eagie.i
Gerry O,Lssus' Bpisilc.
Wsaaisgtos and HE Birthday- Washington
.Asssured By tho. Latest Standard -.4s a
! Great Nan, aad otherrise-- Tdshington's
| T5sit to Brookiya, Vhere he Boarded,
and Why he Mored Awdy-Aaecaote Of
the Same.
DEAR EAGLE:
have just got over celebrating Wash
ington's birthday.
see that You celebrated it by not
issuing any fourth edition yesterday.
As mark of respect the sacrifice of
your fourth edition was tribute that
would no doubt have been gratifying to
Washington if he had lived to see it:
If he had lived till yesterday he would
have been a hundred and thirty-five
years old.
just think Of that.
1t is about the age of the eldest in
habitant.
Washington was great man.
He was first in war, first in peace, and
first in the hearts of his countrymen,
and belonged to one of the first families
of Virginia.
He was likewise Father of his Coun-
try.
If he was alive now don't think he
would feel proud of his offspring.
Had he still continued to reside up to
this time Mt Mount Vernon he would
not be eligible to seat in Congress.
That lovely patriot, Thad. Stevens,
would consigu him to martial law and
Acknowledgement.
The soil on which he was born and
on which his bones rest is mo- longer OF
the land of the free, but crushed and
dismembercd; Virginia wears more
CALLING chains than those which fell
from her limbs when the last foreign
foe yielded at Yorktown.
Pennsylvania, where rebellion first
disturbed the peace of the Young Re
public, has spawned forth an arch ma
1lignant, lineal descendant of the
whisky rioters whom Washington
crushed, to riot in the degradation OF
the State ennobled as the birthplace OF
Washington.
OF course you have heard Of the liv-
ing dog and the dead lion.
What are the glories of the past COM
pared with the glories of the present
Or the great men of the Revolution
since greater have arisen who know so
much more about government and the
fundamental principals of Republican
ism.
If Washington had lived in this gen
Grafton he couldn't have been great
man.
One of the earliest traits of his char
acter was his inability to tell lie.
That alone would have ruined his
| pioSpSSto'
Asa general he wouldn't have done
either.
He didn't believe in marching on the
enemy's works. sufficiently to have in
sured his retention in command of the
army of the Potomac.
He never expressed an intention of
fighting it out all the summer on any
particular line.
1t took him seven years to crush the
British Lion; we did up more en-
teusive war business in four years, killed
five times as many men, and spent fifty
times as much money.
am afraid Washington was slow.
Then We don't hear of anybody max
ing fortunes by army contracts for beef
and shoddy in his day.
4 Republican administration never
could have tolerated such commander
in-chief.
Then his farewell address would have
been fatal to his reputation.
The principles he ennnciated would
have shocked the Radical press, and
he would have been denounced rs
Coppcrhead.
He was open to suspicion of free trade
proclivities because he affiliated with
Boston party who refused to pay the
duty on tea.
Consequently the Tribune would have
been down on him.
Some men are born too soon, some too
late. Washington was born about the
right time.
People didn't know so much in his
day.
Or at least they didn't send such wise
men TO Congress.
People were satisfied with the Union
under the Constitution then, entertain
ing very foolish respect for the Consti-
tuition without the amendments.
Washington paid n visit once to
Brooklyn with his army.
He put up ut the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
the name of which has been changed to
Washington's Headquarters.
The accommodations were not first
class, but the Pierrepont House was not
built at that time, and the boarding
houses down town were all full.
Washington would have staid longer
in Brooklyn only the British and Hes
siahs came in from Flatbush in such