Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-09-06
1 FnRNnrTEN OcclNLON.
Thc Celebration Of the 5Oth Anuiver-
-nry Of Wnshington'- inauguration.

Thc Celebration Of the JOth AnniVer-
-nry Of Wnshington'- inauguration.
Much has been written about the celebra
.iun of the centennial Of the first inaugu
ration of President Washington and Of gov
nrument under the constitution, but no
has been made, so far as has been
observed Of the celebration Of the jubilee
pr that great event in 1889 yet one was
had. John Quincy Adams was President
Of the United States, and was invited to
deliver an address in New York and &C
cepted the invitation. lie arrived in New
York ON April 2gth, and in the evening
met large number Of members Of the New
York historical society at their rooms in the
Stuyvesant institute. On Tuesday, the 3Oth,
that society with their guests, comprising
large number Of distinguished people, as
semhled at the City Hall, and at twelve
o'clock the company moved in procession
to the Middle Dutch church on Cedar street
where an immense concourse Of people was
assembled Tickets were issued for admis
sion to the church to prevent confusion
On "A temporary stage the orator was seated
in the same chair occupied by President
Washington at the time Of his Inauguration.
An appropriate prayer was offered by Rev.
John Knox, D. d. This ode, written for
the occasion by William Cullen Bryant, was
then sung
Great were the hearts and strong the minds
OF those who framed, in high debate,
The immortal league Of love that binds
our fair, broad empire, state with state.
Aud ever hallowrd bc the hour
When. as the suspicious task done,
4 nations gift, the sword of power,
Was given To glory s uuspuied son.
That noble race is gone; the suns
az fifty years have risen and set;
The holy links those mighty ones
Had forged and knit are brighter yet.
Wide as our own free race increase
Wide shall it stretch the elastic chain,
And bind in everlasting peace,
state after state, a mighty train.
The delivery of the Grafton occupied two
hours and half, and surpassed in ability
learning and eloquence the expectations of
the friends of its distinguished author In
closing, he said
Fellow citizens, the ark of your cove
nNlll Is Tue lIttlhIullDl vi independence ,
your Mount Ehal is the coufederacy of sep
arate state sovereignties and your Mount
Gerizim is the Constitution Of the United
States In that scene of tremendous and
awful solemnity narrated in the Holy Scrip
lures, there is not curse pronounced
against the people upon Mount Ebal, not II
blessing promised them upon Mount Geri
zm. which your posterity may not suffer or
From, and tb.ir alharanga IN ~,
departure from the principles of the Dec
laration of Independence practically inter
woven in the Constitution of the United
States Lay up these principles, then, in
your hearts and in your souls, bind them in
signs upon your hands, that they may be as
frontlets between your eyes teach them ia
your children, speaking of them when sit
ting in your houses, when walking by the
way, when lying down and when rising up
write them upon the doorplates of your
houses and upon your gates cling to them
as to the issues of life, adhere to them as to
the cords of your eternal salvation. Sc
may your childrens children, Mt the next
return of this day Of jubilee after a full
century of experience under your national
constitution, celebrate it again in the full
enjoyment of all the blessings recognized
by you in the commemoration of this day
and of all the blessings promised to the
children of Israel upon Mount Gerizim as
the reward Of obedience TO the law of God.
At six o'clock a large company sat dow
to dinner at the City Hotel prepared in tn,
best style of that then well known estab
lshment. Peter Gerard Stuyvesant pre-
sided assisted hy others. In response t,
the toast to George Washington, he gave
personal description of that man. On thi
subject he said His department in lif,
was not plain, nor was it at all pompous
for no man was more devoid of ostentatioi
than himself; his style, however, CAV,
universal satisfaction to all classes in tn
community. Possessing desirable stature
an erect frame, and, superadded, loft,
and sublime countenance, he never appear
ed in public without arrestng the reverence,
and admiration of the beholder; and tn
stranger who had never before seen hin
was at the first impression convinced it wa
the President who delighted him Gen
Scott was present, and responded to tn
toast to the army; George Folsom, Esq.
! was 'alleu upon ny Ihe preslueHI vi vi
evening, and made appropriate remarks
Grenville Mellen rected an ode compose
by him for the occasion and William Cut
ter read an ode upon the Grafton, compose
after its delivery. A fine transparency wa
exposed, representing old Federal Hall a
the first Inauguration, with the figures c
Washington and Chancellor Livingston i
the balcony, the former laying his hand VI
the oath of office. 1t drew forth long an
loud applause. Stuart's portraits, painte
by himself of the first five Presidents de,
grated the hall The festivities continue
to "A late hour, and brought the commemC