Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-28
WASHINGTON MONUMENT
The Lofty Eloqucnce Of the I.ofiiest
Memorial Ever Reared 10
Man.
It's History--The Story II Tells To-Day,
and It's Lessons for the Flu
turc.
tsa-asHsss=a+
The Participation Of Texans In RcariHg
This Tribute TO Liberty.
special Correspondencc OF The Gazette.

SpcVlAi NrtftNpunucncc OF the Oafcttc,
Washington, November 2s.--Now,
that the Washington national monu-
mcnt has reached the height of 4l0
feet and the tasks of its builders, FOR
the winter, are suspended, Iproposc to
| tell the readers of the GAgsrrs some.
what Of La history, and of the pnrtici-
patton OF Texans In the Inauguration
OF hisgrcat work. Nearly forty years
ago the erection OF tho
monument began. On the
Sunday morning before Lincoln's first
Inauguration, he aud Mr.. Seward stood
at It's base and looking up its massive
sides, mentally inquired whether the
then gathering political tempest would
ever admit of its completion. Its
height then did not exceed 100 feet.
Mr.. raugborne, n Whig editor OF Jer-
sey City, whom l have never encoun-
tered since Tint morning, was beside
me. We talked then much in the
vein of The story am telling, War
came. The South was devastated,
slavery abolished and there followed
the terrors OF reconstruction and the
sway OF Africa and of the frightml
carpet-hnggcr. The monument,
paralyEed 10y shameful events,
stood still. In fact, Il slowly
|
mother earth. But when the states
were NJ length reproduced, with the
union of our fathers, the monument
grew again. lts shnpely colossal pro-
portions lifted themselves far above
tho collntry's capitol. or structures
on the continent, reared by human
hands, Il Is first kissed 10y thereverent
god OF day where rising from his couch
in the aea.
THE LONG AGO.
This recital of facts incident TO the
origin of the great monument
! will be read with keen interest
| by those who remember now
generously the whole people of the
South, rich and poor, made contribu-
tions that Westinghouse name aud
deeds might bo properly honorcd aud
his fame perpetuntcd. This was In an
age when we celebrated with earnes
zeal the annual recurrence of the natal
day OF American ficcdom. Ita chief
lesson taught reverence for the foun-
dcrs of the republic aud dcathless de-
votion Ia the federal union. Party
leaders had not then dared, Ia con-
travcntion of Washington's inlunc-
| tons, To exasperate 10y acts Of dem
ngogism the people of ono section
against those OF another Reckless,
passionate newspapers aud deeper
ate adventures like Malone hid
never sought 20 cmbltter Northern
against their Southern iellow-coun-
| trymcn.
STORM AND SUNSHINE.
| But such leaders OF the people
sprang into the arena and public lie.
They did their worst, and hell, sick
cned by the spectacle, spewed up all its
! horrors. But the end came and
slowly, with the lapse OF years, and Us
rapidly ns warning peoples learned the
truth aud understood one another
peace and unity were reproduced. The
! people of Texas, as thoroughly ~ those
| Of Maine, were gladdened 10y the re-
Election that the rapidly approaching
completion oi this majestic monument
| would surely witness the perfect rch-
toation OF American unity and broth-
erhood,
A STANCE COINCIDENCE,
But even now, ut the very moment
when artisan and engineering genius
reckless men, who would win or re-
tain power Mt any cost,
/ propose 10 make partisan contests
race contest. They would have man
bind believe thai Southern people,
| hating negroes, would disiranchise
or re-nnslAVc them. surely the
| North lius learned, ~ well MS the
South, that the bloody shirt IL liaunl-
| ing lie and TINT this glaring falsehood
itself begets every evil incident To the
relations of races in the South. The
| foul device and emblom of fectional
dlscord Ia unfurled by Malone ~ the
only means maintaining the solidity
of the blacks, and, borne over the
North, To arouse the hostility Of the
sympathetic aud generous masses
| against their own race aud kindred In
the South.
WHAT MAY BE Been FnOaf ITs suNHlT.
But this scheme of party leaders Will
fail of its most roprebensible purpose.
From thesuninit of thlHgrowlnX mon
nnIent, whose story we tell, intel
llgencc and patriotism may discern
and contemplate with unmlxed satls-
faction the Integrity and unity OF the
states. This lnteHt dmbolical plot in
yolying necessarily the determination
OF one or the other race and these
PROGRESSES employed In exasperating
the one against the other, win surely
DC condemned by the wise and good
everywhere.
tine duAsTLIIsST CHAPTER IN TuB
nook or TIME,
How pitinl would he
the story which Malone and
his Economical Inouthpicce would
have postcrity read
IL would tell that in tho year IsSj,of
the completion Of the majestic nionu-
ment, reared IN honor Of the deeds
and virtues Of George Washington,
presidential election occurred. Party
lenders, for purpcses Of selfish aggran-
dizemcnt, had consolidated blacks
against whites Exaspcratcd by
every conceivable cAnggcration of =
fact and theory Of government,
diverse races were coinpactly arranged
In partisan conflicts against one an0th-
err Each day the relations Of these
races became more and more danger
ouA 10 society aud " law and life, dem
agogues and newspapers cooperating