The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-19

MS personal character with the
armies being led to victory more
thrllilngly manifested nor its value
TO the country proven more import
antly, than in this dangerous crisis,
when the crown of an unchartered
power and military ambition was
held out to his grasp, only to be
dashed to earth by the love of
country, which never for a mo-
ment was obscured by persona!
interest or ambition. If art ever
preserve in marble or canvas true
likeness in soul and body of this
great man, the occasion of his thus
putting under his feet the Solicita-
tions OF AN unlawful power and
ambition, will surely be selected.
The speaker then said if we looked
for the cause of the success of the
united colonies of the embattled
farmers, who withstoOd the mighty
ornaments of Great Britain, it was
due not alone to the valor and de-
termination, but to the common and
practical virtues essential to the
people so weak in wealth and re-
sources. How high and clearly cut
against the sky Of history rises the
column of the personal character of
these patriots sires! said the orator
He contrasted their integrity with
the venality historians have dis
closed to have been the rule among
The English politicians, from George
III. down.
Senator Edmunds said it was
war on one side for dominion, re-
CARELESS of justice, by a rich
and powerful empire whose
forces were welded under
an administration weakened by
corruption, immortality and profit
gate expenditure, n which patriotic
objects were but little regarded, and
the qualification of passion stood in
| lieu of the conscientious pursuit of
public welfare. On the other side,
with forces numerically feeble and
almost wholly unsupplied with tie
sinews OF war, the scanty band of
agricultural colonists, animated
by pure and lofty love of liberty,
standing in defense of their birth
rights, homes and fresides, sustained
by religious faith in the justice of
their cause, and aided by the prac.
tice of honesty and frugality in the
administration Of their resources.
emerged from the unequal contest
. victorious and unstained. He con-
!. Guided by declaring that SO long as
their course was emulated the re-
public would stand. s
/ "IIail Columbia" by chorus and
the band; original poem by Wallace
i Bruce and grand chorus, mo King
| but God" followed. Senator Bayard
then presented the orator, of the
day, Hon. VIM. N. Eyarts, who re-.
ceiyed the most cordial welcome.
i What measure orr limit can, there
. Or should there be, to, the JOY; and
|, pride with which the great, FORUM
ate. prosperOusa and powerful people
|, look back upon the men actions and
events which hayedetermined their
desire and made sure their happi-
ness? Such a people should and
do insist that these gloriesi of their
, int eritance should never fade from
, the eyes of themselves lof their Dos
ter.ty. They will mark The scenes
where momentous. transactions
have had their birth with durable
: monuments; they will search out
and commemorate every noble
purpose and o1qevery sIyirtuous
!, act which made up the collective
force and secured uihe general tri-
umph. They will emblazon with
their admiration and their gratitude
the names and deeds of tberillustri-.
GUS actors in these great affairs, and
! finally they will swell the impulse
| and volume of the Impression OF the
heroic part which they preserve and
| transmit to their descendants with
their own homage. {Applause) The
orator then passed M,~revieW the
beginning and end Of the " az Of the
revolution, the movement to raise
| up q patriot king at the headIof the
united people, with "a Washing
tom refusal - to : = accept the
crown and Ibis energetic aTae-
ton. What was there to breast
this sudden Hood OF amufiny rand
rage !? What 70 still this storm ?
What to stay this rising conflict be-
tween the civil and military 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. a meeting, con-.
voked the assembly for a day APP
pointed by himself, and prescribed
its constitution, its duty, and its
method of proceeding, and he at
tended and addressed it himself.
He mastered it by the force Of his
reason, his earnestness, his expostu
lations, his authority, his presence.
The united voice of the sssembled
officers was but the echo of wisdom,
and thus the illustrious leader sup
pressed military revolt against the
supremacy of civil government ss
swiftly as be had oyerthrown the
scheme to subvert its frame. On
this very day. 100 years age, Con-
gress issued a proclamation dis
Landing all the armies, and Wash
ington, from PrincetoW1, under
date of November 2, 1883, put
forth his farewell address to the
armies of the United States These
two remarkable papers embraced
within their councils. their exhorta-