The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-02

and the weapons for the promotion of
national power and greatness, but
WashingtOn's steady support carried
them through. Parties crystalized,
and party passions were intense. de-
bates were Incorporate. and the Union
openly threatened and secretly plotted
against, as the firm pressure of this
mighty personality funded the debt
and established credit, assumed the
state debts incurred in the war
of the revolution and SUI
perseded the local by the national OBJ
legation, imposed duties upon imports
and excise upon spirits and created rev.
enue and resources, organized a nation
al banking system for public needs and
private business, and called out an
army to put down by force of arms re-
sistanee to the federal laws imposing
unpopular taxes. Upon the plan mark
ed out by the constitution, this great
architect, with unfailing faith and I'M
faltering courage, builded the republic
He gave to the government the princi-
pies of action and sources of power
which carried it successfully through
the wars with Great Britain in 1912
and Mexico in 1913. which enabled
Jackson to defeat notification, and re-
cruited and equipped millions of men
for Lincoln and justified and sustained
his proclamation of emancipation.
bloody reality of France and the night
mare of the civilized world. The
tyranny of centuries eliminated in
frightful repriSals and reckless re-
venges. AS parties lose to power and
passed to the guillOtine, the frenzy of
che revolt against all authority reached
every country, and captured the imigi-
nations and enthusiasm of millions in
every land, who believed they saw thai
~ nrfshU ho
ing of all institutions, the confiscatiOn
| and distribution of property, would
end in a millennium for the masses
and the universal brotherhood of man.
Enthusiasm for France, our late ally,
and the terrible commercial and in
dustrial distress occasioned by the
failure OF the government under
aroused an almost unanimous cry
for the young republic, not yet sure of
| its own existence, to plunge into the
vortex. The abiest and purest states
men of the time bent to the storm, but
| Washington was unmoved. He stood
| like the rock-ribbed continent between
| the urging billowssso f fanaticism and
| first law, and the mind of Washington
was order. The revolution defied
God and derided the law. Washing
ton devoutly reVerenced the Deity and
believed liberty impossible without
law. He spoke to the sober judgment
of The nation and made clear the dan
1 ger. He saved the infant government
from ruin, and expelled the French
minister who had appealed from him
TO the people. The whole land seeing
safety only IN his continuance in Office.
Joined Jefferson in urging him to &C.
cept second term" North and south, -
pleaded the secretary, will hang to-
gether while they have you to hang
on
No man ever stood for so much to
his country and to mankind as George
| Washington. Hamilton, Jefferson and
Adams. Madison and Jay, each repre-
sented some of the elements which
formed the Union. Washington en-
bodied them all. They fell at times
under popular disapproval, were
burned in effigy, were stoned, but he
with unerring judgment was always
the leader OF the people. Milton said
great. peace greater" The superior
ity of WashingtOn's character and
genius were more conspicuous in the
formation of our government and in
putting it on indeStructible founda-
tions than in leading armies to victory
and conquering the Independence OF
his country. The Union i'll any
! ONcilGs Is LHC CCLlOBdI OlIOuSAO VI Liz
farewell address. and all the years OF
his grand life were devoted to its for
nation and preservation. He
fought as a youth with Braddock
and in the capture of Fort Du
Quesne for the protection of the whole
country. AS cOmmander-in-chief Of
the continental army, his commiss on
was from the congress of the united
colonies. He inspired the movement
l 10 T1rnQI6Rnf q n
dominant spirit of the convention which
framed its constitution and its preSi-
dent for eight years, and guided its
course until satisfied that moving safe
Iy along the broad highway of time, it
would be surely ascending toward the
first place among the nations of the
world, the asylum of the oppressed, the
home of the free.
Do his countrymen exaggerate his vir-
tues? Listen to Guizot. the historian
of civilization: Washington did the
two greatest things which in politics
1t is permitted to man to attempt. He
maintained by peace the independence
J of his country which he conquered by
war. He founded a free government
in the name of the principles of order
and by re-eStablishing their sway
] Hear Lord Erskine, the most
famous of English advocates: ~ OF
are the only being for whom l have AT
awful reverence Remember the tri
butte of Charles James Fox, the great
! est parliamentary orator who ever
Swayed the British house of commons
Industrious man, before whom all Dor
rowed greatness sinks INTO insight
cance.a Contemplate the charac
ter of Lord Brougham, pre-emi
F nent for two generations il
every department of human activity
and thought, and then impress upoI
: the memories of your children his de
D liberate judgment: Until time shall
be no more will a test of the progress
2 which our race has made in wisdom ant
' virtue be derived from the veneratioI
, paid to the immortal name of Wash
]. ington."
= Chatham, who, with Give, conquered
p an empire in the east, died broken
3 hearted at the loss of the empire in thu
3 west. by follies which even his powe
5 and eloquence could not prevent. Pit
4 saw the vast creations of his dipiOmac,
+ shattered at Austerlitz, and fell muir
e muring: My country how / leav
y my country ~ Napoleon caused no
. bic tribute to Washington to be read a
the head of his armies, but, unable +
rise tn Washington's greatness. wit
messed the vast structure erected b.
conquest and cemented by blood. {
3 minister to his own ambition and pride
:; crumble into fragments, and an exil
= and a prisoner he breathed his las
= babbling of battle-fields and carnage
, Washington, with his finger upon hi
} pulse, felt the presence of death, an
= calmly reviewing the past and forecast
ing the future, answered to the suI1
,, mons of the grim messenger, 1T
= well, % and as his mighty soul assemble
~ to God the land was deluged with tear
and the world united in eulogy. Bic
out from the page of history the name
Y of all the great actors of his time i
- the drama of nations, aud preserve tn
- name of Washington, and the centuT
y would be renowned.
We stand to-day upon the dividin
= line between the first and second cen
~ ~ fury Of constitutional government
~ There are no clouds overhead and q
= commissions under our feet. We reve
y entity return thanks to the Almight
3 G.1,d fn1. the mast and con GdnIat On