Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-19

form and with every degree of interest and
zeal, such people does insist and should
insist that these glor1es of their inher-
itance should never fade from the eyes of
themselves or their posterity. They will
mark scenes where momentous trensac-
tions have had their birth with durable
monuments; they will search out and COM
memorate every noble purpose and every
virtuous act which have made up tho COL
lective force and secured the general tri-
umph; they will emblazon with their ad-
miration and their gratitude the names
and deeds Of the illustrious actors in these
great affairs, and finally they will swell
impulse and vellme of the impressions of
the heroic past, which they preserve and
transmit to their descendants with their
own homage and applause. These natural
and necessary sentiments and habits of
generous and grateful people are constant
and should be perpetual. Their disuse or
decay will not dim the luster of the histor-
ic period, but sim ply mark, alas, the de-
generacy of latter times, and forebode the
failure or at least eclipse of the splendid
fortunes which have proved too weighty
for the shrunken virtues of unworthy
heirs"
The orator then passed in review the
theabee inning and end of the war of the
Revolution, the delay in settling the terms
of peace; the transition from war to peace;
the gloomy outlook of the veterans; the
movement to raise up patriotic king at
the head of united people, with
Washington's refusal to accept
q crown, and Weshington's energetic
action. In December Of 1872, the officers
of the army here encamped had entrusted
to committee of their number careful
and Impressive memorial, for presentation
to congress. But little reflection is needed
to appreciate the gravity of this situation,
and the feeling of the army soon broke
out in the tone of menace, or armed re-
monstrance and military defiance. The
crisis had come for which neither the con-
gress, the states nor the people we're pre-
pared. 1t came on them with shock, be-
cause the processes, the Influences, the
natural sentiments leading to it had been
silent, gradual and unnoticed. The
people whom they, the SOL
diers, expected to be grateful, were
stating how to escape the obligation to
be just. The chief share in enjoyment of
the advantages of glorious and prosper
Gus peace. which generous consent should
have assigned to those who had borne the
chief brunt and burden Of the war, was to
be withheld from their humiliation and
penury, embittered by pity and charity,
were to be their inglorious fate. Against
this their intelligence, their spirit, their
pride, all that had made them the army of
independence, the glory and defense of
their country--rebelled--a eloquent, pas
slonate, resolute expression of the
hot in bn
breasts of all was circulated among the
officers and was accompanied by sum-
mons to meet at once for the consideration
of thsir wrongs and assertion of
their power and their right to redress
them. These appeals have no name nor
did they need any personal authority to
command or quicken the purposes which
were already formed and wanted only to
be combined. The deliberations thus in
vited were to conduct to a conclusion and
peremptory determination to confront
congress with the alternative of promptly
meeting the demands of army or behold
ing them refuse to lay down their arms or
surrender their organization. My
countrymen, what was there to breast
this sudden food of mutiny and rage?
What to still this storm? what to stay this
rising conflict between the civil and mill
tary arm of the government? What indeed
but the name, fame, power and character
of Washington. With instant decision
he set aside the anonymous call for
meeting. He convoked an assembly
for day appointed by himself and pre-
scribed its constitution, its duty and its
method of proceeding. He attended and
addressed it himself, and mastered it by
force of his reasons his earnestness, his
expostulations, his authority, and his
presence.N The united service of the as
sembled officers was but the echo of the
wisdom, the patriotism, the all enduring
obedience of the great citizen, the over
whelming authority of the great COM
mander-a and thus the illustrious leader
suppressed military revolt against the
supremacy of civil government as swiftly
and as surely as he had oyerthrown the
scheme to subvert its fame. The COM
mander-in-chief here penned his address
to the governors of the United States, in
which he spoke to them, and through them
to Legislatures and people in far-seeing,
far-reaching counsels of wisdom and duty
as enc having authority. On this very
day. one hundred years ago, congress is
sued its proclamation di,banding all the
armies, and Washington from Princeton
under date of November End, 1888, put
put forth his farewell address to the ar
mics of the United States. These two re-
markable papers embraced within their
counsels, their exhortations, their instruc-
tions and their warning and their bsnedic
tions, the citizens and soldiers of the whole
country. They we're at once evidence and
annunclation that the great work of in
dependence was accomplished and the Da-
ton was established. No formal pro-
clamations,. no authentic acts of the
government could carry the weight.
could receive the attention, could pervade
the public mind, could animate the hearts,
could stimulate the conscience, could con-
troll the conduct of this people passing
from the wilderness into their promised
land, as did these personal words of their
great leader. He stood, he was to stand
upon the level OF common citizenship
with themselves; but it was a citizenship
which built up and was to endure crown
of glory to the whole people and an inher-
itance never TO perish till they had lost the
virtues illustrated and inculcated by Wash
ington.
The interest, the reverence that we feel as
we recall these great transactions-as we
stand upon the spot where they were en-