The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-27

than that ascendency could have ridden the
whirlwind and directed the storm that burst
around him. Party spirit blazed into fury
John Jay was hung in effigy. Hamilton was
stoned Insurrection raised its head in the
West. Washington himself was denounced,
and suddenly the French revolution. the
CHASTITY spectre rising from deiirium and
despair the avenging fury of
lntolerable OPPRESSION, at once hope
full and heart-rending seized mod
ern civilization, shook Europe to
the center divided the sympathy of America,
and, as the child of liberty, appealed to
Washington. But the great soul, amidst
battle and defeat, and long retreat, and the
sinking heart of people undismayed, was
not appalled, by the CONFUSION of the world.
Amidst the uproar of Christendom he knew
liberty too we'll to be deluded by its mad
pretence. Without beacon, without chart,
but with unwavering eye and steady hand, he
guided his country safe through darkness
and through storm. In the angry shock of
domestic parties there is but one character
which keeps them in ave- wrote Edmund
Randolph. The foundations OF the moral
world said a wise teacher in Oxford Uni
versity, bidding young Englishmen mark the
matches man, the foundations of the
moral world were shaken, but not the under
standing OF Washington He held his stead
fast sway, like the sun across the firma-
inent, giving life, and health, and strength
ing survey of his administration, which
established the fundamental principles of
American policy in every department, there
is no great act which his country would an
null. no word spoken, no line written, no
deed done by him, which justice would re-
verse or wisdom deplore.
AN ELOQUENT PERoRATIoN.
"Fellow-citizens the solemn dedication of
Washington to this august and triumphant
task is the event which this statue will COM
memorate to unborn generations. Elsewhere,
in bronze and marble. and upon glowing
canvas genius has delighted to invest with
the immortality of art the best beloved and
most familiar of American figures. The en-
glneer of the Virginia wilderness, the leader
of the revolution, the President, the man,
are known to all men; they are everywhere
beheld and revered. But here, at last, upon
the scene OF the browning event of his life,
and of his country's life-here, in the throb-
bing heart of the great city. where
it will be daily seen by countless thousands,
here in the presence OF the President of the
United States, of the Governor of New York,
OF the Official authorities of other States, of
the organized body of New York merchants
who, as in other years. they have led the city
in so many patriotic deeds upon this spot,
lead now i'll this commemoration of the great
est and finally, of this vast and approving
concourse of American citizens, we raise this
calm and admonishing form. It's majestic
repoSe shall charm and subdue the multitu-
dlnous life that heaVeS and murmurs around
it, and as the moon draws the swaying tides
OF ocean, its lofty serenity shall lift the hur-
rying crowd to unseiish thoughts, to gener-
GUS patriotism, to a nobler life. Here de-
scended upon our fathers the benediction of
the personal presence of Washington. Here
may the moral grandeur of his character and
his life inspire our children's children for
ever"