Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-12-06

and John Jay was the conscience. Waslile
tons Just and serene ascendency was the
lambent flame in which these beuetcent pow
ers were fused, and nothing less than that
ascendency could have ridden the wlirlwind
and directed the storm that burst around
him. Party spirit blazed into fury. john
Jay was hung IN f'iIy Hamilton was stoned.
lnsurertion raised its Head II the west.
Washington himself was denounced, and sud
denly the FTcncA revolution,
TEE easily spECTER
rising from delrium aud despair the aycng
lag fury Of in'Olerablc oppression, at once
hopeful aud heartrending seized modern civ
illza,iun, shook Eur ipe to the center divided
the SYM atby of America, and, A. tue child uf
liberty appealed to Washington. But tie
great ul, amid battle, and defeat, aud long
retreat, and the sinking heart of people
undism yel, was not appalled, by tn 60 yul-
ion Of the world. Amid tue upruar of
ChrIstcndom he kuew liDerty too well TO be-
deluded by it. mad pretense. Without a bca
con, without chart, but with unWayrrinG
eye and steady hand, he guided his country
,.lc through darkness and through Stun
In the angry shock OF dome tic parties "thCre
is tut one character which keeps them IL
awe, - wrote Edmund Raniolph. "Ihc iOln-
datiOns of the moral wOild,n sail vie
teacher in Oxford university, bidding the
NbhuS lug IlNAlllliu illd' N VIZ llAANl'tTN Nill
'thc foundations Of the moral world were
shikCn, but not the unGc standing Of Wash
ugtonn He held the stcadiast way, like the
sun across the Ornament, eiv NJ life, aud
he ,ltb, and strcug Il 10 the new natl u, an
upon seltching sllrteyOf hi ad LiniStr,tt H.
which established the fu Il mcutal principles
OF American POI cy every deparmc il'rr
is no great act which iiS country wuuli
annul, n word spoken, no line written, no
Il e done by him which Justice would reverse
or wisdom drplrc.
FcllOw-ciiiz rs, the solemn de LEGATION Of
Washington to this august and Triumphant
task is the event to which this tatuc VIII
COMMEMORATE TO UNB ,tN GENERAilO'S.
El'cwherc, in trpnHc and marble, aud upon
glowing canvas, genius 'sdclightcd tOiny, st
with til. Immortality of arr tnr brsi-bcloy,d
and most familiar Of American figures. The
engineer II the Nirg mia wilderness, tIc | ad
cr of the Rcyolui II, the president III man,
are known 10 all men; they are everywhere
beheld aud reyCrcd But here, at last, upon
the scene Ot the C'ORniIg event Of h IS tc and
Of his coun' ry's lifc-hctr in the throbiug
heart Of the great city, where Il will be- seen
by countless thousands, here in the prcscn t.
the president Of the United States, " the
governOrof New York, f the Official aut'Od
tlrs OF other states, Of The DrgIn'Z u body
Of New rk merchants who, as in Other
years they have led the city ia 50 any pari
otic deeds up Il this spot, lead now in this
mmrmu'atlUn ui the grcn est, and finally ot
this vast and apyruv NJ COuCuursc Of Nmrr.a
can citizens, we raise this calm and adm m
ishinl form Its mi site reposr shlli charm
and subduc the mutt tuliuu- life that hca,cs
and murmurs around it, and aS the moon
draws the ing tides OF ocean, It's lofty
serenity shat lift the hurrying crowd to uu-
selfish thought, 10 generous patriotism, tu