Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-13
A ROMANCE OF TWO GENERATIONS.
A scene in the United States Senate
Chamber in 1893.

at On December %, 1888, the floor
le the senate chamber at Annapolis w.
k. filled TO overlooking by stately dame
ie and geutle maidens who had Go,kei I
1t the capitol as if the weight of stal
g; questions had been for this one hon
'e inirusted to their wise deliberations,
p Washington, the mighty vet unan
10 bilious hero of the time, while still IN
idol of the public heat. WAS on thi
n day to lay down his laurels by resign
Il ing TO congress bis commission as com
J; man3er in chief of the bIaye it'll
d army whose triumphs he had directei
Il and whose sufferings he had shared
e Accompanied by his aides, Colore
d Benjamin Walker and Colonel Dayi.
II Humphreys. and the officers appointe.
!, as escort, Washington entered the hal
e where the assembled congress awidre
b him, every manly voice among H.
n spectators cheering, and every fem
niue kerchief waving an enthusiasi
e Of approval and welcome; but Il
: cheers were hushed into breathlee
., silence by the first words Of the grea
= IerO's digniied address, to whic'
| General Miflin, as president of tn,
; senate, made an eloquent and appro.
pirate reply. On Washington's left
stood the valiant soldier, Colonel John
; Eager Howard, of Maryland, and
facing Colonel Howard, conspicuous
among the foremost group ef senators,
was General Read of South Carolina,
the hero of this short legend of a by.
gone love. How little did either of
these young men, strangers to one
another, dream of the day TO come
when son and daughter of each were
to brcOme husband and wife to thn
daughter and son of the other! Many
were the men who 81 names were alrea-
dy distinguished or TO become historic,
who were present either AS members of
congress or spectators of the impres.
sivc scene, Madison, Jefferson, Mon.
roe, Lee, OF Virginia; Osgood, of Massa-
chusetts; Morris, of PENNSYLVANIA;
MrCNnb, of Delaware, and General
Ohio Williams, and Generals Smith
and Swan of Maryland. The well
known Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
wa4 accompanied by his two daughters
one Of whom was afterward as MIS-
| Cl'On, mother to TIE celebrated trio OF
American beauties who became re-.
spectlvplr Lads Stafford, the Marchio
ness ot Weilesy and the Ducpps, uf
Leeds,
Bat absorbing g was the attention
given to W;shiugton hv the al,..lst
assemblage oL heroes and patriots. who
recognized in him the greatest hero
and patriot of an. the young Caro-.
linian'5 eyes wanaere1 up The gallery
above, where Mr. Washinelpn with
her young grandchildren At her knee.
WAS seated in ali the digri'y and legit,
innate pride of the wife vino clowns
herself with her husbands glory.
Grouped around her .Gir wa tie three
Calvert sisters, Maryland's olood royaI
the family of Loli Bmtimore: and
never was the fame Of MARYLAND beau
ty better maintained than by the CON
Trusting lovcliness of the Youngest
Miss Ariana Calvert. with The moro
brilliant charms of her eldest sisters
who had been espou.iug during all the .
perils of the war, both on the same
evening, the one by Washington's step.
son, Parke Curtis, and the other by
Mr. Gear!e Stuart of MARYLAND. II il
told of these gentlemen that each re-
ceivel the announcement of the birth
of a son-born on the same dav. a venr
after the marriages-while on the bot.
tie field.
But it was not the rich bloon or
dark eyes of the beautiful youpg ma.
irons which so rivited the ,ifcntion of
the Young soutberner tbat oycn tha
sublime presence or Woshinctoy wa.
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and Le oayeJ nm at tLo ,noon,nir,,. rmU ,c,' %,
young oirl until tbo friord ot hia cI,
how NJ I,mos Nonroa too |Lnnni, naS -
Virgirian not ~ rocnau;,o uGU 'uoaCIs tha ,'la
nomn9a of a love Of GrSt nJ s;nbt '"V nlhis fHo
nsrpd bar noma in bis oar srJ thois "''iS !
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