New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-23
HUMAN LIFE OF WASHINGTON.
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life o, Washington. The text was found IN Daniel K
IL: "A man greatly beloved"
I suppose the most Of you have noticed. SAID
tho preacher that the drift Of our time
"a away from Washington the man toward WASH
incton the myth, so that the real man as he
lived has begun TO grow dim to us, and wonderful
preseuce has taken his place, which only resembles
Washington as marble resembles flesh and blood
think this is great pity because good man IL always
more OF satisfaction TO us his ghost Though the
ghost is ever stately. We ike the manu- 'na'
Will CRASH ours as II 1t meant something
the sound OF foot which comes down strong ana rue'
and the laugh which wakes TO laughter But We miss
all This In the Washington OF and are gradually
Iorgettng that II was ever there. And so want To
touch the human heart and life o: him tonight In some
poor fashion. 49,
notice this to be with respect to his early me-
that Master George was very much Ike other chiren
and not at all like the children In the good DOCKS VINO
die vonne The voung gentlemen at Harvard made
ballad once OF which this the burden, that to he as
good boy as darlington, yOu must cut down cherry
tree and then tell your father the story OF the eheyee
Ii s one Of rst OF the myths There Is not the east
authority for 1t in any record you can trust
Old Mr. Weems a sort Of hedge parson, was the frat
10 tel it, but those who knew him best believed MIN
least Az we used to say Yorkshire, he only told the
, truth when he had no lie ready. fLaughter.l Ana
there Is one thing in the story should be very s"rY
Indeed To believe was true that Is where tie laher
makes the boy crlminate himself. This Is what We
shrink from in court Of justice. ~
ia what we should never do in the nome,
Rut have no doubt that the little fellow could play hls
prsnks and get into mischief much rs all boys do
who make their mark afterward az men OF action lie
was fond OF playing ct soldiers TOO out theh ne
always would he captain they say, and from
what VIC know OF boys he would have to earn his post
in many well-fouGht battle. He was swift OF ioo''
also and could beat young Dade at last who bad kept
nil
In 10 take Il from him. So this, doubt, Is the truth
that Washington q boy was very much alive Ihefe
was mischief I'm him. but no meanness ana no cowhdce
He WAS a good boy because he whole boy ana TINS
is to me ga good thing we can wish for
Washington fell in love before ne Vas fifteen 1t Is
eupposed The maiden more be Identified than
Junus I remember coming to the conclusion that
this must have been mistake. and there was no such
love or maiden. because If there had been she Woud
have told that other maiden her one dearest rlend ana
then we should have known by this time also nave
given up this theory She did tell. The evidence Is 10
HACK and white. VINO wasiti Did you say Well. that
Is my secret. He wrote poetry about her. tn very
depiorable poetry indeed.
He never went college, but he was great at figures
and had very pretty turn for surveying land SO that
before he was he would sometimes earn $50
day AND this was the way he grew from boyhood to man
hood helping to work the great farm out IN the wilder
ness. surveying, educating himself as well as he
was able when he could find time. But he
was always very uncertain IN his spelling
what never have occurred 10 him was that no
had any time daude about doing nothing or 70 SOW
his wild oats and take his chance az tho crop when old
age drew on He n whole boy, said. venture TO
say also that when his youth was over he was whole
man.
Itts well worth knowing also that when he man.
,uu grown, he stood six feet two IN his stock
inrs IL is also n comfort to some OF US TO
know that he had probably tho largest
hands OF any man In the thirteen colonies. lie
had also great muscular arms and vast deep chest.
and could hurl n rock with the momentum OF young
1aut And then have found out this about him. that
tnough the event proved presently ne ~ brave
90 a non he was at the same tIme a bashful ~
Girl Tne young maidens, when he went INTO COMPANY,
would talk 10 hn and Try TO MAKE mn tah, oy thso
nos and surprises that IA old as Eden ana to nap
less young fellow would blush ana stamnsr hnd try TO
answer them, and break down aud te oau enough no
douht He never got over this baahuness. try as ne
ugbt except when there was that TO say there was
mighty need should be said, wheh u Ws ql'st0n OF
life and death. set the young man taking 10 ndlans
he AGENTS of tho great Louis plotting for the
master OF Continent, or o. shout ringing orders IN
the early frontier battles, and then see whether no
cnuld talk without blush or staInmer love th5 blush
and siamincr In WarhingtOni love to watch u ana TO
his manhood II Is revelation the perfect Dur
nv and grace Of his own nature "omhnhoOl VS. to
Wiashngfon what IL should be 10 all young men,
sacred AS that OF bsOwp mother and ssers aa sacred
as married wien he was thirty years old 1--WE years
laie in my opinion; and both In winning MA wife aud
1Tnat ,ne had lie seems To have known what he
cosf had very great fortune And this brings me TO
cousider Wnshin gtOn's abilities "A business
There is by gone idea that great men desplse money
and cannot attend TO business aa common people do
Nny thai NAV be true OF some great men, but ihink It
"a mot true Of the greatest Washington kept hs own
accounts perfectly and regulated his own weights and
measures so carefully that after bis trade
aonr With the washington brand on it
went o and aS a % could not cheat 80 he could not BE-
cheated this il TO be noticed under This mead.
| thar whilo Washington went everywhere aud saw 10
everything on his great estate down TO the fat and
| trifies he never grew close and mean, but
| while he knew where every penny went no kept
| a state equal 10 bis fortune and standing. The
truth is that these thngs as IN so many others Wash
| IngtOn all-sded man. Let Washington be re-
| inembered, when we see how he could take
his money bS as 1s T cr %a8 c2d drew give nc
| pay so far / know, IN the war Of tho Rev
oiliOn, and paid $4,000 out OF his own purse Let
draws hr salary hide his face In this mystic presence
Washington dld freely without pay what such men re-
| IlInes OF the war he would write from the camp
10 the good wife Martha t, BE sure my de s
the best picture can make for you OF the in his
| house and about his business
| AT TIE OPENING OF THE REVOLUTION.
While It may startle you for when say II,
| 7 know that moments reflection Will make my state
| roent good TO YOU that Washington was not one OF
the men who gurated the Revolution and very
doubtful indeed whether there would have one In
that age II il had left TO Of washingon's make
| 10 open the ball
Take your map, STICK pm IN Ne"-Engand frst, then
IN Massachusetts then In Boston, then IN Faneu Hall,
q, tho tovp Of Boston. then up Sam Adams and
| sot him down in Faneuil Hall, and then
Won have tho roots and the aproos of the Revolution
| I, Sam" Adams OF all men, you find the oit of white
fire for FREEDOM which struck la The dry finder and set
| The world afire. Washington was true 10 the land In
| every beat OF his heart IRON the hrst day
| 20 the last. let us be sure OF that But
ben the battle o. Lexington fought Adams cried
| What glorious day |" but Washington wrote what
denIorable affair - and twenty days after Lexington
|
| of Coysress in an humble and dutful petit
| lion 10 the King, whioh John Adams denounced
as an mhece measure. The truth Ia the pioneers
OF freedom in New England were a. untamabe then
thew always are-the first 10 spring ON the tyranny get
| a good grin on IT, and hold until the rest
come up: and it was New England. not old
| Virginia, that made Washington commander