The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28
TIE TwEsrY-sECOND OF PRBRU-
AIRY


No name in history awakens in the minds
of Americans such sacred memories as that
of George Washington, and no history, an
cient or modern, presents character as
symetrical; no name SO collassal, growing in
its grand proportions as the years roll on
and presenting this phenomenon, that while
other names grow dim washingtons mounts
into sublimer prominence. This, the 22d
day of February, is the one hundred and
forty-ffth anniversary of his birth. He was
born on the 22d day of February, 1882, las
years ago. American by birth Virginia can
not claim him. The grandeur Of his achieve
ments makes him the representative man
since the days of Moses, and Mount Vernon
Is not less sacred than Mount Pisgah. He
worked for humanity, and as nations rise
up and break their fettes and throw of
their bondage, they claim him as their own.
The home of freedom is the land of Wash
ington, no matter in what cline or country
it is situated; and to-day in all lands the
name OF Washington Will be spoken with
veneration- To the oppressed IL will awaken
hopes; to the free it will eXalt aspirations,
and it will be only in America that It's lus4re
will be obscured by the damning crimes of
radicalism. The anniversary Of Washing
toms birth is national holiday, secular
Sabbath. BY law public business is sus-
pended man and beast may rest, even the
lightnings will be comparatively still. The
wire arteries of thought and passion will
pulsate more sluggishly, and thoughtful
men, in deep seclusion. will ponder passing
events with painful forbodings. The gov
ernment that Washington founded, OF which
he laid the corner stones, and saw it rise in
glorious proportions and outline, is rocking
in the throes of political earthquake. The
radical conspirators have murdered states,
murdered the republic; sovereign states lie
bleeding, rsyished and dead, every jewel
stolen and every corpse mutilated and man.
gied-bloated radical scoundrels with pas
Gons iHfamed, eyes protruding. the saliva of
political lechery dripping from their beastly
mouths, whetting their tusks like wild
boars are sitting around the council board
of the government established by Washing
ton. Thieves, loaded with stolen plumber,
are made the custodians of the peoples
money; perjured villains, ready to damn soul
and body and country, receive distinguished
consideration. Supreme judges, upon whom
the whitening curse and blight Of corruption
rests have made their office a their court
a thing for filings and jeers Radical return
ing boards have been substituted for the bal
lOt-box-perjury for truth, and crime for
integrity-and over all this wreck of q gov
eminent once pure, "a chief magistrate waits to
be hoisted into office by derrick of fraud and
villainy. The advocates of perjury will be
his counsellors, thieves, as under Grant, will
riot in Office, and fraud will hold high car
nivsl in all the departments OF the govern
ment- Washington has been dead
seventy-eight years, and this is the condition
of the glorious heritage be bequeathsd 70
coming generations Radlcalism began with
cursing the constitution and proclaiming
higher law" and in its insane zeal has de-
stroyed both constitution and law, and to-
day there is scarcely guarantee OF civil
liberty remaining that promised so much for
his country when George Washington
yielded up his spirit to God.
What patriot in the land can contemplate
the situation in Washington to-day without
being overwhelmed with humiliation.
Grant is getting ready TO retire from the
white house, place that he has bofouled TO
an extent that it would require the Potomac,
II it were soap suds, hundred years to
cleanse. He went into the white house
poor, he comes out rich as Cresus. He has
been a bribe taker. He has peddled
Office for pelf- He has been the
friend and boon companion of thieves. He
Is coming out of an Office made grand by
Washington. Coming oukwith the proceeds
OF his rsscslity-pups and Horses, houses and
lands, bonds and stocks-a creature of
radicalism an outgrowth of its infamies.
He has made his record as president He
has ovenwed state legislatures with his
army; he has upset supreme courts by his
order; he has protected fraud with
bsyonets and Endorsed villainy in its
worst forms Such is the situation on the
145th anniversary of Washinglon's birth, and
81 years after he retired from the presiden-
tial mansion, and 81 years since he penned
his farewell address But this is by no
means the saddest feature of the picture.
While Grant is getting ready to leave, the
radicals are manufacturing his successor.
The process forms the most infamous chap
ter in history. Every movement is that ola
serpent; every advance is marked by perjuryj
bloated bribetaker comes out; a creature
of crime goes in. The white house
Is pest house, the retreat of political
lepers, a place for the reception of such
creatures as Wells and Kellogg. stearns and
the majority of the radical electoral deadfall
commission.
We are told that Hayes is a gentleman. but