Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-03-10
George Washington.

must be an appropriate time to IN
dulUe in the contemplation OF his char
acter. saws the Rev. DR.. Bell, in Ihe
Md Continent.
And first, rs with our minds eye we
behold the completed monument at
the capital Of our nation. 1t of itself
alone deserves an elaborate chapter to
do any Justice to its history; its design,
its progress all the matter connected
with but the adamant, and metal that
make its mighty proportions, as they
have been in the laying these many
years, unto its topmost stone; placed
amidst the shoutings of fifty millions
of free people.
The foundations were tested, and
re-tested, until they were pronounced
stable, immovable enough to hold an
Atlean world. Then the huge blocks
of granite from every state and terri
tory of the whole realm chiSeled with
appropriate inscriptions.
Great blocks added from many ma
tions under the whole Heaven-they
too adorned with sculptured notices
appropriate to the man, and to the adj
miring people that gave the massive
imperishable blocks.
Thus too, cities, corporations, So
cieties, Institutes, temples of learning
and of science; every and all sending
their adamantne gift, with appropr
ate motto and symbol to do honor tC
the man, exalted, the
FIRST OF ALL HUMAN KIND!
The trcasures-th millions o
money that it required to build
whence came theyP
From the treasury of the nation
from the treasures of states and o
cities; from the funds of association
and of societies; from the banks anC
bankers; from the rich who gave o
their millions; from the poor whC
gave of their poverty; from the widow
and orphan, who gave the pence water
ed by their tears; from the boy anC
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 tC
commemorate the virtues of the model
man of all mankind.
in the hearts of his countrymen?" Her,
was the proof that he was first in tn,
hearts of all human kind
Meanwhile, most skilled arch;
tects and engineers, exhausted al
their skill in advancing the work anC
in placing every boulder and carrvin!
up every abutment, and angle, anC
line, in accordance with the most i'm
pregnable laws Of gravtatiOn anC
mechanics; laying the level and tn
square, and extending the compass
and suspending the line and the plum
met, on every perpendicular and angl
and horizontal, that all things Nigh
accord, and be in harmony with til,
laws of the infinite Master Builde
when he laid the "foundation of tn
earth" and fastened the corner stOn
thereof, and stretched the line upon il
"When the morning stars sang to
gether and all the sons of God shoute
for joy!'
Thus year by year the stupenduou
fabric went up, adamantand iron upo
layer. as high rs st. Peters, as high 9
the colossus, as high as the tower
of Babylon and the spires of the Tenn
pie of Bel, still higher than them all
than the pyramids, twenty feet highe
than any structure ever before reare
by the prowcss, the wealth, the ski
and resources of man.
AS the name and fame and charactC
of Washington assembled above the alt
tude ever reached by any mere MAJ
so his monument should most fittingl
over-top every structure reared by tn
hand, and the resources and the genil
of man.
And how Cnmo IL To nass that we I