The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-20

/ tale Of faify-land.
We see the grand French Army drawn
/ up Tor upwards OF a mile IN battle array,
yen iusi regiments, including Legion Of
cavalry with Corps OF Royal Engineer
BourDonnais and Solssonais, Royal Deux-
/ Fonts, Saintongc, and Dillon, who have
come from Newport-with tho Touraine.
the Auxonnc, the Agcnais. and the Gait
nais, soon 10 win back the name OF the ROYAL
Auyergne, who had just landed from the
neet. They are oil In their unsoiled uni
forms OF snowy white, with their distln-
/ gushing collars and nppels OF yellow,
and violet, and crimson, and green, and
pink, with the Fleurs dc Lis proud
! iy enblazoned on their white silk
rsgimental standards, with glittering stars
and badges on their officers breasts, and
with dazzling gold and silver-laced liveries
on their private servants; the timbreI, with
Its associations and tones Of triumph, then
ga delightful novelty lending maecus-
toned brilliancy to the music Of their
bands.
Opposite, and face 10 face, TO that splen-
did line we see our own war-worn Ameri-
can Army, the regulars, II we had anything
which could be called regulars. in front,
clad In the dear old Continental uniform,
still g in pasSable condition." New York
brigade; Maryland brigade; the Penn
sylvania Line; the light companies made
I up from New Hampshire, Connecticut, and
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New
Jersey battalion, with two companies from
Delaware; the Canadian Volunteers;
park OF Artillery, with sappers and MI
ners; and with q large mass OF patriotic
( Virginia militia, collected and commanded
by the admirable Governor Nelson. Not
quite oil the Colonies, perhaps, were repre-
sented in force, rs they had been at Ger
mantown, but hardly any Of them were
without some representation, individual il
not collectiye--many 81 them i'm simple,
homespun, everyday wear, many OF their
dresses bearing witness to the long, hard
service they had sccn-coats out at the
elbow, shoes out at the toe, and i'm some
cases no coats, no shoes, At all. But the
STARS AND STRIPES, which had been raised
first at Saratoga, tloated proudly above
their heads, and no col0r-blindneSs on that
day mistook their tintS, misnterpreted
their teachings, or failed TO recognize the
union they betokened and the glory they
foreshadowed
a just tribute was paid TO the British
soldiers and officers, to the British nation
and to Queen Victoria, and then was
skctched, "a only one full OF the subject
and full OF patriotic fcryor could do it, the
prominent American and French officers.
American and foreign authors have OK
hausted eulogy in their tributes to Wash
ington, but nothing ever pcnned or spoken
on the subject SURPRISES this tribute and
eloquent appeal to Virginians:
WASHINGTON.
There was another representative Of the
Old Dominion here, greater than Nelson,
greater than any one who could be named.
present or absent, living or dead. | do not
forget that, while America gave WASHING
TOS to the world, Virginia gave him TO
America, and that il is her unShared priVl-
lege to recognize and claim as her son him
whom the whole Country acknowledges
and reyeres as Ms Fathcri
Behold him here at the head Of the Ame-
rican Line, presiding with modest but ma
jestic dignity over this whole splendid
scene OF the Surrender! lie is now in his
ftticth year, and has gone through ankle
ties and trials enough Of late to have filed
out the full measure OF threescore and ten.
That winter at Valley Forge, those cabals
of Conway, that mutiny in Pennsylvania
md View Jersey, the detection OF Charles
Lee, tn, treason OF Benedict Arnold
with all the distressing responsibilities in
which i involved him,-tke insuflieitncy
OF his supplies OF men, money, food, and
clothing, must have left deep traces
on his countenance rs well as in
his heart. But he is the same incompara-
bic man ~ when, at only twcnty-one, he
was e1t rs a Commissioner from Governor
Dinwiddie 10 demand OF the French forces
their authority for invading the Kings
dominions; or, rs when, at twenty-three,
he was the only mounted officer who
escaped the French bullets ut BraddOcRs
defeat. And here he stands foremost
among their Dukes, and MalqHiseS, and
Counts, and Barons, receiving the sirren-
der OF the standards under which he had
then fought against France as British CO.
lonial officer.
THERE NEVER WILL BE SECOND WASH
NGToN.
From the siege OF Boston, where he OBJ
tanned his first triumph, TO this browning
| siege Of YOrktown-mOre than six long
years-he has been one and The same;
bearing, beyond all others, the burden and
heat OF our struggle for independence;
advising, directing, commanding; endur-
ING depYiyationS and even iniusticcs with
out Il murmw, and witnessing the sue
ccsses Of others without ieal0usy-Uhile
10 such signal victory had yet been vouch-
safed to his own immediate forces rs could
bsye satisfied heart ambitious only for
himself. But his ambition was only for
his country, and he stands here at
last, with representatives CT all the
States around him, and with repre-
sentstiyes OF almost all the great
[ Il. fO
ceiye. ON the soil of his own native and be-
loved Virginia, the SURPRISING reward OF
his fortitudc and patriotism. lie has many
Great functions still to fulfil-in presiding
over the Convention to frame the Constitu-
tion. and in giving practical Interpretation
and construction to that Constitution by
ajght wears OF the first Presidency. But
with this event the first glorious chapter OF
hia career Is closed, and he will soon be
found At Annapolis in the sublime attitude
of voluntarily rcsigning to Congress the
nlenary commission he had received from
them. and retiring 20 private life.
Virginians YOU hold his dust as the
mort Drecious possession Of your soil, and
would not let it 20 even TO the massive
mausoleum prepared for il beneath the
Canlfol at Washington, which no other dust
can ever fill. Oh, let his memory, his
nrinciples. his example be ever as sacreGy
and iealously guarded in your hearts No
second washington will ever be yours, or
ever be.ours. OF no one but him could 1t
have been Justly said
All discord ceases at his name
All r1nks contend TO swell his Tame.
ALL Re fmGINIAYs AGAIN.
The highest snd most coveted title which
onv man can reach-not In orr own land
only. or In our own age only, but in oil
lands and in all ages-will still and ever be
80 :. bn or,,roached nearest to Washing