New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-08

the services on the day of Washin gton's in.
:auguration We're conducted by tine bishop of
New York, the Rt Rev. Samuel Provost. At
8 o'clock The committee on states escorted
the president from the Fifth Avenue hotel,
ACCOMPANIED by the chief justice and men,
bers of the cabinet, and under an escort of
police, proceeded to Vice President Morton's
residence. The vice president entered Pres
ident Harrison's carriage, and the procession
moved down to st. Paul's At the Vesey
street gate the party was met by the COM
mittee of the vestry of Trinity church. and
the president was conducted to the Washing
ton pew. The editice was filled with the
wealthlest and most pr ointment people in the
country. The address delivered bv Ri.
Rev. II. c. Potter. D, D., bishop of New York,
in substance rs follows:
One hundred years ago there knet within
these walls a man to whom, above all others in
Its history. this nation is indebted. English
by race and lineage. he incarnated in his own
person and character every best trait and attri-
butte that have made the Anglo Saxon name a
glory to its children and a terror to It's enemies
throughout the world. But he was not so much
an Englishnan that, when the time for
him TO be So he was not even more American
and in all that he was and did a patriot exalted.
and leader great and wise; that what men called
him when he came here to be inaugurated as the
first president of the United States the civilized
Worid mas not since then ceased to call him
the Father of His Country.
And so, with ineXpressible tenderness and rev.
erence, we md ourselves thinking OF him here,
forth to his great tasks with mien august and
majestic that Fisher Ames who sat beside him
in this chapel, wrote: Il was present in the pew
with the president and must assure YOU that
after making all deductions for the delusions of
our fancy i'll regard to characters, still think of
him with more veneration than for any other
person"
yield to no man in my veneration for the
man who framed the compact under which these
states aa, are bound together: No one can easily
which they wrought out. But. after all. we may
not forget to day that the thing which they
made was dead and not a living thing The con-
ceptl0n OF the general government a huge
machine, existing mainly for the purpose of re-
warding partisan service-this was conception
80 alien to the character and conduct OF Wash
ington and his associates that il seems srosesque
even to speak of it. 1t would be interesting to
imagine the first president of the United States
confronted with some one who had ventured to
approach him upon the basis of what are now
commonly known as practical politics." But
the conception is impossible.
Here in this holy house we find the witness of
that one invisible force which, because it alone
can rule the conscience, is destined one day to
rule the world. In native majesty he was a
ruler, wise and strong and fearless in the sight
of God and men, because by the ennobling grace
of God he had learned. first Of ALL to conquer ev-
so to rule himself. For
What are numbers knit
BY force or custom? man who man would be
Must rule the empire of himself--in it
Must be supreme, establishing his throne
OF vanquished will. aueling the anarchy
VI hopes and fears, being himself alone.
Such was the hero, leader. ruler patriot,
whom we gratefully remember on this day. We
may not reproduce his age, his young environ
ment, nor him. but none the less rejoice that
once he lived and led this people, lied them and
ruled them prudently" like him, that kingly
ruler and shepherd of whom the Psalmist sang,
with all his power God give US the grace to
prize his grand example, and, as we may in our
more modest measure, to reproduce his virtues.
After the ceremonies in the church We're
concluded the presidential party escorted
by the committee, were driven down to the
subtreasury building at the corner of Wall
and Nassau streets. where the literary exer-
cses of the day began. The moment the
exercises at the subtreasury began the
military parade started up Broadway from
Pine street.
At the close of the services the doors lead
ing out on the west porch We're thrown open
and the distinguished congregation which
had entered the Broadway entrances passed
out this way under the canopy which had
been stretched to the Vesey s treet gates
The guests took the carriages assigned them
according to the arranged programme, and
moved along shors spaces at time Till the