The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-26
TUBaIC OPINION.
Showing How the Memory of washing.
ton Is Respected.
IN. Y. WORLDLY

ton Is Respected.
IN. Y. World.l
II the great Virginia gentleman whose ami
versary is celebrated to-day-the purest and
most majestic character IN history--couId look
down upon the country, he would be ashamed
private life; he would be grieved to see th want
of common patriotism and the prevalence OF
epirit OF hatred among men whose ancestors
fought shoulder to shoulder, but he would tingle
with indignation to see the csrelessness with
which we submit to the encroachments of power.
The study of his works and his example is the
best safeguard of the republic, and yet we live to
see lieutenant colonies OF United States infantry
such thing was to be expected after We had per-
mitted corporals of United States infantry to dis
perse State legislatures.
Iohicage Tmss.l
II is useless to deny this much-George WASH
ington is being rapidly forgotten in the metropolis
of the West Hestarted Ii to life by the custom
ary process las years age, and had he lived until
now would have been about the age Of "old
Parr" when that worthy was gathered to his
fathers. George Washington was an excellent
surveyor. q good border fighter, perseyering if
not brilliant general, and thoroughly honest
man. according to his lights. He did his country
good service, and his country reSSfded him II
mot richly ut least comfortably. The Americans
can hardly be called Retrospective people.
They prefer to live to-day or to contemplate the
dead is of the negative order. They honor them
in theory, but hate the fuss of showing their
appreciation by pubic demonstration. Nobody
viii deny that George Washington deserves the
venerstion of ali men, Americans, Europeans,
and the rest, but few people can summon up
enough energy to tramp the streets because he
was born on certain day in February, l7S2 He
came inte the world, by the way, before the
Gregerian calendar moved time forward eleven
days, (which made the date of his birth, accord
ing 10 The present style, February IL, Instead Of
a.. In fact, the Gregorisn Cslendar has knocked
good many anniversaries into confusion.
[St Louis Repabican.l
Although the day is likely TO be treated with
even lSss respect than usual, it is well enough,
perhaps, to remember that this is the one hum
dred and fasty-ffth anniversary OF the birth Of
George Washington, A man of considerable con-
sequence III his generation, and playing some
what pr minent part in the drama OF american
independence he belongs SO completely to the
past that his example has ceased to be initiated,
and his principles and practices gone quite oat of
fashion, The people to whom he gave
national n2ae and fame regard him very
much as the Greeks nnder the thirty tyrants
regarded Aristides--as 3 combination of myth
and miracle, too wise, too honest, and too patri-
otic to be copied by men of a more degenerate
era. The Washing gtoRian idea was exterminated
long sge, and the leaders who now control the
destinies of the IepRbllc have no more sympathy
with .hat idea than though they had been Graded
In another planet. In short, the Father of his