The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-27

, | tory of the whole realm ChlSeled with
.. appropriate inscriptions.
Great blocks added from many ma
lions under the whole Heaven@thev
too adorned with sculptured notices
appropriate to the man, and to the adj
miring people that gave the massive
impershable blocks.
thus too, cities, corporations. So
cieties, Institutes, temples of learning
and of science; every and all sendinS
their adamantne gift, with approprE.
ate motto and symbol to do honor To
the man. exalted, the
| FIRST OF ALL HUMAN KIND!
The treasures-the millions OF
money that it required to build
whence came they?
From the treasury of the nation:
from the treasures of states and of
cities; from the funds of associations
and of societies; from the banks and
bankers; from the rich who gave of
their millions; from the poor who
gave of their poverty; from the widow
and orphan, who gave the pence water
ed by their tears; from the boy and
girl, who had saved their small coins
from buying the toy, that it might 90
into the fabric of the monument; from
these treasures of all the civilized peo-
Piles of the globe. All wanted some
possession in the fabric that was to
commemorate the virtues of the model
man Of all mankind.
Was it said of him that "He was first
in the hearts of his countrymenP" Here
was the proof that he was first in the
hearts of all human kind
Meanwhile, the most skilled archi-
tects and engineers, exhausted all
heir skill in advancing the work and
n placing every boulder and carrying
Up every abutment, and angle, and
inc, in accordance with the most i'm
laws of gravitation and
laying the level and the
quare, and extending the compass;
nd suspending the line and the plum
net, on every perpendicular and angle
nd horizontal, that all things might
ccord, and be in harmony with the
avs of the infinite Master Builder
yhen he laid the Foundation of the
arth," and fastened the corner stone
hereof, and stretched the line upon it.
When the morning stars sang TO-
ether and all the sons of God shouted
II joyr'
Thus year by year the stupenduous
brio went up, adamant and iron upon =.
yer, as high as st. Peters, as high as =
Q colossus, as high as the towers
Babylon and the spires of the Tenn
e of Bel, still higher than them all;
an the pyramids, twenty feet higher
an any structure ever before reared
the prowess, the wealth, the skill
d resources of man.
AS the name and fame and character Z
Washington assembled above the alti-
lie ever reached by any mere man;
his monument should most fittingly
er-top every structure reared by the
nd, and the resources and the genius
man.
And how came it to pass that we of
lerica, should have given TO the
rid the greatest of all mankindp
Ah, who can tellP Was it because
had so many of the best models of
ages before him from which to copy,
l absorbing the best from all, he
'duced in himself the combination
passing all the single and meaore
situations of greatness scattered
ong so many, by concentrating all
hin one. and that one HIMSELF But
J cannot be for one hundred years
@ since produced their generations
men, and these have had all the ex-
Piles that had Washington, and
shington himself besides, fromwhich
'opy, but they have not produced
equal, much less his superior. And
s it is that our hero remains the
lei man of all the world without a
lie rival.
ut he was not such man as Mar
| made him to be in "Marshall's J
of Washington" The kind of
that Chief Justice Marshall paint
i'm. was an impossible human be-
rather like ''molten and craven
ye' of some monstrous production
idolaters worship than a possible
1t has gradually come to the
ace in those detached geographic i.
craps that have appeared, that
hington had strong passions.
int1exible will, and that his Ian
re when in the very torrent and
lwind of his passion" swept away
barriers of the third command
!, and his anger was terrible.
Iced, the great Washington was
human. If he had not been he
r could have reached his unequaled
ortions. But it was in the clos
+ his public career that he proved
elf to be master of himself and
hannah weaknesses. 1t was I'M
tedly in his power to havo ad-
ed into the highest place of her
ry rulership, kingship. Impera-
ip. Perhaps he could have seat
mself upon an entailed throne.
Gould have done whatsoever he
to do. 1t was then that he chose
what proved him to be the very
est of the great, for he chose to
own all office and all power that
d welded more greatly than ruler
ever had done. After
g shown what a perfect ruler
perfect captain should be, he
side all power and Office and
nelly retired to the peaceful o.
ions of rural life, and spent the