Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-03-07

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The Statesfelks to abuse.
He said that this was a jobber.
And that one ground an axe,
And the other was but q robber
In the laying Of the tax.
But he saw a poor old woman
Alone in her closing years,
With a glad face look on Congress
And bright eyes dim with tears.
And he said: "Old girl, what is it
You are looking down upon?"
have come to Congress to visit,
Bless God" she said, "my son!''
Ross, Of Bladensburg.
In the county Down, Ireland about thirty
miles south of Belfast, is the village of Roestre
vOr, on Carlingford bay. often called, for its
coast side and mountain beauty, the Irish
Montpelier. 1t is q watering place village,
aboundiDg in cottages and lodging houses, and
Belfast, and Dublin come In the summer to
battle in the surf, walk the beach, and drink
spring water in the soft summer air under the
Mourne mountains, which rise in solid walls.
covered with moss, and keep off the cold wind
Of the North. Most prominent in Rosstreyor ia
a great white obelisk with huge base, which
can be seen delineated against the darker
mountains from q far distance at sea. II Ia the
substantial and durable contribution of the
officers Of his army to the greatest native Of
koestreyor, relative OF David Ross, the owner
Ross. Every citizen and visitor of Washington
viii remember this officer as the capturer OF the
American capital, and the inscription on the
Rosstrevor monument endeavors to make il
appear that Ross fell at Washington, like Wolfe
at Quebec, IN the instant OF superlative victory.
It says:
" The officers of a grateful army,
which, under the command of the Iamented
Major General Robert Ross,
Attacked and dispersed the American forces
At Bladensburg. on the oath of August, 1914,
and on the same day VIGOROUSLY entered Wash
The Capital Of the United States,
But Ross fell near Baltimore, September II,
nineteen days after Bladensburg,)
Inscribe upon this tablet
Their admiration of his professional skill
And their esteem for his amiable private char
His well-earned fame is also recorded
BY the monument erected at his grave
In Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the army in that
By tina, which his Go%mans brother officers o,
the 10th foot
Raised in his parish church at Rosstrevor;
That placed in st. Paul's Cathedral,
As the last tribute Of q Nations praise,
BY his country"
Here, then, was an Irishman with four differ
ent monuments for the same victory. Truly the
English beat US in obsequy faithfulness!
Roses fathers arms say: "David Ross, of
Ross Trevor lie Down, Esquire" Ross's postum
nous arms say: Major General Robert Ross.
Died August 4, 1914; slain at Washington in
America, commanding his Majesty's troops.
h,s widow and descendants to be called Ross OF
Bladensburg."
Ross had the good taste not to be slain at
BladeDsburg, where 50 many have since died a
voluntary death, and the late Judge Purcell
was scarcely an exception. Therefore there lie
An Heraldlc fable in his embattled argent,
dexter arm, cuff azure and broken American
flag, with the motto ''Bladensburg." He might
as well have had the motto "Giesboro" and the
symbol OF sinister mule in chief lssuant,
encircled by wreath of thistles or bale of hay
proper.
Ross was younger son of q retired officer
who was distinguished at the battle Of Minden
ID 1859, and married a sister Of the Earl OF
Cbarlemont. The boy served at the Helder, in
Egypt, in the disastrous Walcheren expedition
and at the battle of Nader, by prompt ma
neuvre, he brought British victory out of the
jaws Of danger. His Twentieth regiment was
raised to superb discipline and Sir John Moore
("Not drum was heard nor funeral note")-
placed it in his rear, retreating to Corunns
For this work Ross was made Royal Aide-de
Camp, and soon afterward Major General. He
asaa and in sas battles
having two horses shot under him at Pamplona,
and being struck twice in the stomach without
any more injury than Senator Pomeroy sus-
May 81, 1914, 2,4oo of wellington's troops in
SPAN sailed from the Garonne to Bermuda
under General Rose, and there increasing to
$500 men they sailed again to the island of
Tangiers, in the Chesapeake, 80 named In
honor Of the birth place Of Governor
Of D,,s ssn Slaves There ES the
whereby the Emperor of Russia after,
wards awarded 100000 pounds sterling to the
Americans. August IA, Cockburn, for Ross,
and In one month Ross was q corpse. He was
shot near North Point with q musket ball.
which passed through his arm to his breast.
on the obscure village of Georgetown Gross
Roads, Eastern Shore of Maryland, forty days
before Ross, on August 8, 1872, received
st. Paul's. The two bodies were forwarded in
spirits from Tangiers Island, near the mouth
OF the Potomac, to Halifax, N. s., on the ship
Of war Tonnant There Ross was buried. and
Parker, who was but twenty eight years of age
at the time Of his death, was sent TO England
for interment, where the officers and crew of
tie chip Menelaus gave him q monument near
staDzas on Parker's death, tho last Of his line.
Cockburn wrote on ROSES death:
"Whilst his wounds were binding up, and we
were placing him on the bearer, which was to
carry him off the field, he assured me the
wounds he had received in the performance Of
his duty to his country caused him not a psng;
dearer to him than life."
The British historians have almost without
exception praised Ross while deploring his bar
baIous Instructions; American critics have
rather softened on the instructions. He
marched very far to take q very little and
sprawling place, but his soldlery and himself
learned pillage in Spain where Wellington
could not control them. He was Scotch Irish
Episcopalian.
The Non Equestrian Scott.
What to us says Winfield Scott,
As in bronze from yonder height
Stationed on the browning spot
All the city, bathed in light,
Lies before him in a glow,
Warm and soft as Mexico?
"Countrymen," the hero's word:
Gan this fair domain of land
For your Capital to grid,
1 did win at mere command,
As . forfeit from nay foe,-
Captive, conquest Mexico.
"Brave and freedom loving state,
Made like ours in form divine,
Faction brought 1t to that fate,
Feud and passion ibertine.
None would serve where all would show;
All would plumber Mexico.
Cheerful take the gifts of fate,
And while Freedom Is, submit
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