The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-04-04
WASHINGToN'S BIRTHDAY.
A "REBEL ANNIVERSARY.
[Fron the Lexington (aIo.) Caucasi

[Fron the Lexington (AGo) Caucasian.I
The Twenty-second passed without huzza
or tire-crackcr. No celebration In Lexington.
No flags nying No school holiday No pro
ccssion No brass band. No big speeches, big
fuss. big dinner. big drunk, big humbug. No,
no nothing. And it is well. Why celebrate
the tweuty-second of February! What makes
it n memorable day! Listen.
One hundred and forty years ago, last Thurs
day in Westmoreand county, Colony of Vir-
glnia. late Military District J." George Wash
ngton was born at very early period OF his
existence. George was n good boy;-There-
fore was he not like unto the loyal youth OF
present days George never told n lie;-There-
fore was he unlike "Our Cesar" who was
convicted of deliberate, willtul, sneaklng false
hood, by four of his Cabinet associates, IN n.
J. time and therefore, also, was he unlike
the "rebel outrage" manufacturing hu-hiuX
Committeeman of the 1ankonlgger Congress
sional kennel. George never said naughty
words, or stole anything; Therefore was he IN
nOwiSe qualified to become bright aud shining
light in the nineteenth century "god-and-mor-
ality" synagogue. George, In the course of
events. became MAN. Therefore was he not
similar to the whinnying Sumner or the moxaed
Morton. AS time rolled or, little unpleas-
and her thirteen blooming daughters, one of
whom Virginia was which. Bostonan school
marms refused to pay one cent n pound, duty
on their Young Hyson and BOhea-(we pay
fifty times that now. Connecticut wooden
nutmepcers didn't like stamps s"-(We've all
got 'em now). Virginians didn't like trials
without iury-(We all submit to them now
One objected to this diminutive indignity, and
another said he'd be cussed if he'd endure that
inGnitesmal outrage. Therefore was the d.
addy of loyalty to pay among the Colonies
Red. coated defenders of the Uuiop " were
poured, by thousands, into the "rebelllous !"
nrovinces. A few "rebels" were slaughtered,
n few houses burned and few outrages COM
mitted, by way of reconstructing the way
ward sisters" on the old despotic plan. The
wayward sissies didn't see it in that hght
called grand pow-wow; and ''seceded." We
know il was very naughty They oughtn't TO
have done it. But they did They determined
TO set up shop on their own hook; to paddle
their own canoes down the wonderful river of
Time. Yes, they secessioned. Thereupon, n
mighty, sky-cracking shout of Loyalty" ;"
Down with the traitors" and Rally round
the old flag" went up from Britishers Hes
slams and Tories. But George didn't care a
single continental rubefactum centum damnum
for "oyalty." Alas no. The truth must be
told, though the heavens fall and catch white
niggers-(which is just about the last thing
they'll ever do)-George was rebel" AN
"old Virginia rebel" TO use the pious phrase
ology of North Methodist Bishop Simpson, "a
id old Virginia rebel slave.holder-ah Soon
as the blood Of "rebels" stained the sod of
Lexington, George put clean shirt. red
bandana, box of paper collars, fine-tooth
comb, pack of cards, pocket-bible and
flask of doube-rectifed presidential delight
and senatorial befuddlement, in his saddle-bags;
buckled on a huge cheese-knife; told bis old