Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-02-22

dangerous to !" LIE. liberty, aud tno
pursuit Of happiness than those oil
others who in later days corrupt the
suffrage in the rank growth Of cities;
build palaces and pile up millions amid
crowded paupcrs monopolize telegraph
and railway lines by corporate ma
chincry; spurn all relations to politics
save to debauch its agencies for per-
sonal gain; and know no Goddess OF
Liberty and no Eagle Of Country. save
in the images which satire itself has
stamped on the Almighty Dollar.
In 1857. while yet "a Cromwell
filled the Stuart's throne" there came
to Virginia with party Of carlists who
had rebelled against him. John wash
ington. of Yorkshire. England. who be-
came magistrate and member Of the
House Of Burgesses, and who distln-
guished himself in Indian warfare as the
first Colonel Washington on this side oil
the water. He was the nephew OF that
Sir Henry Washington who had led the
forlorn hope of Prime Rupert at Bristol
in lG43, and who. with starving and
mutinous garrison. had defended Wor-
cester in lG49, answering all calls for
surrender that he awaited his MaJeS-
tvs commands"
And his progenitors had for cen
turies, running back to tie Norman
Conquest. been men Of mark and lair
renOwn.
Just pride and modeSty Of indyid-
uality alike forbid the seeking from
any source Of borrowed lustre, and
the Washingtons were never studious
or pretentious Of ancestral dignlties.
But we are quotations from our an
cestors," says the philosopher of Con-
cortland who will say that in the
LOYALTY TO conscience, and to principle,
and TO the right of self-determination
of what is principle. which the Wash
iDgtons have ever shown, whether rs
loyalist or rebel, was not the germ of
that deathless devotion to Liberty and
country which soon discarded all ancient
forms in the mighty stroke for indie
pendcnce?
Two traits of the Anglo-Saxon have
ever been equally conspicuous-tcspect
for neutrality-suspicious. to its abuse.
Exacting service from the one. even the
second Charles learned somewhat OF
the second. When pressed by James
TO an extreme measure he answered ::
=. Brother. am too old to start again
| on nv travels" James becoming king,
and forgetting the hint, was soon on his
travels, with the revolution oil 1858 III
full blast. and William Of Orange upon
his throne.
The Barons Of Runnymede had. in
deed, written in their great charter that
| if the king violated any article thereof
they should have the right to levy war
against him until full satisfaction was
made. And we know not which IS
most admirable. the wit or the wisdom
of the English lawyer, John Seldcn.
who. being asked by what law he juNti-
fed the right of resistance, answered
BY the custom Of England. which is
part of the common law.
THE INSTRUMENT or PROVIDENCE
Mountains and Wales are natural cor
responsiveness. \ very Tempe had |lr
ginia been. shclterng the loyal cavaliers
in their reverence for authority. The
higher trait of the AnglO-SaXOn wa
about to receive more memorable illus
tration, and she uprose. Olympus-like
in her resistance 10 its abuse.
And the instrument of Providence t
lead her people and their brethren, ha'
he lived in the DAYS when mythlc lor
invested human heroes with a sodlik'
grace. would have been shroudcd IN tn
glory of Olympian Joyc.
one hundred and iitty-three year
ago. on the banks Of the Potomac. II
the county of Westmoreland. on spo
marked now only by memOrial-stone-
. Of the blood OF the people whom hay
family described the fourth in dcscel
from the Colonel John WaShingto
whom have named. there was born
son to Augustine and Mary Washing
- ton. And not many miles above hi
f birthplace is the dwelling where he wa
reared and lived. and now lies buried
Borne upon the bosom Of that rive
, which h.re mirrors Capitol, dome. an
monumental shaft. in its seward ii0'
, the river itself seems to reverse II
| current and bear us silently into tn
mast. Scarce LA, the vista of the CIT
faded from our gaze when we bchol
on the woodland height those swell
above the Understandable walks an
: groves and gardens-thc white pore
= of that old colonial plantation hon
@ which has become the shrine OF man
= pilgrimage.
- Contrasting it. a. there it stands to
+ day. with the marble halls that We hay
; left behind Us. we realize the truth
# Emerson The atmosphere OF NOR
: sentiment is region of grandeur whlC
: reduces all material magnillccncc
# toys, yet opens to every wretch that hi
d reason the doors of the universe.
o The quaint old wooden mansio
d with the stately but simple oId-iaS
o ioncd mahogany furniture, real and u
garnishcd; the swords and relics
/ campaigns and scenes familiar to eve
- school-boy now ; the key of the Bastl
re hanging in the hall encased IN Sla-
+ calling to mind Tom Painc's happy e
If preston that the principle OF t
~ American Revolution opened the la
l. tile is not to be doubted; therefore t
:. KEY comes TO the right place y: t
= black-yclyct coat worn when the ia'
T. we'll address to the army was made
ne the rooms all in nicely Of preparatI
c. as if cxpectant Of the conf
ID hoS;-we move amongst these men
re rails Of days and men long va
H. ished-we stand under the great tire
v and watch the solemn riyer-wc ga
s. upon the simple tomb whose silence
al unbroken. save by the murmur OF
II. waters, or the wild birds note-a
Ks We are envcloped in an atmosphere
H. moral grandeur which no pagcantry
ed moving men nor splendid pile can gel
to rate. BY the tumuluS OF Marathon
h. creeks have the tradition that in
nv gloom Of night may vet be heard