The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-01


and hsithef the judgment nor the
writes bf the tnan were ever dis
turbed. Armies were led to the
field with all the enterprise of a
hero, and dismissed with all the
eqnanmity of a philosopher. Power
Was accepted, was exercised, was re-
signed, precisely at the moment and
in the way that duty and patriotism
directed. Whatever was the difficult
ty, the trial, the temptation or the
danger, there stood the soldier and
the citizen, eternally the same, with
out fear and without reproach, and
there was the man who was not
only at all times virtuous, but at all
times wise.
The merit of Washington by no
means ceases with his campaigns:
1t becomes, after the peace of 1888,
even more striking than before; for
the same man, who, for the sake of
liberty, was ardent enough to resist
the power of Great Britain and
hazard every thing on this side the
grave, at later period had to be
temperate enough to res S. the same
spirit of liberty when it was mis-
taking its proper objects and trans
crossing its appointed limits. The
American Revolution was to ap-
prJach him. and he was to kindle in
he general flame: the French Re-
volution was to reach him and to
consume but too many of his country
men, and his own ETHEREAL mould.
incapa Die of STAIN" was to purge
off the baser fire. victorious" But
all this was don he might have
been pardOned, though he had failed
amid the enthusiasm of those
around him, and when liberty was
the fashion: but the foundations of
the moral world We're shaken. and
not the understanding Of Washing
ton.
To those who must necessarily
contemplate this remarkable man at
distance, there is kind of fixed
calmness in his character that seems
not we'll fitted to eng ,ge our eff-c-
ti"ns, (cOnstantsuper venerate
than lDvel. but he had those
who loved him CHS friends and his
family, as well as the world and
those who admired.
As a ruler of mankind, however,
be may be prop ,sed as a model
Deeply impressed with the or ginal
rights of human nature. he never
Forgot that the end and meaning.
and aim of all just government, was
the happiness of the people, and he
never exercised authority till he had
first taken care to put himself
clearly in the right. His cando-.
his patience. his love Of justice, were
unexample1: this, though naturally
he was not patient-much other
wise, he was highly irritable. He.
therefore. deliberated we'll. and
placed his subject in every point Of
view before he decided, and his un-
lerstand NJ being correct, he was
thus rendered. by the nature of his
faculties, his strength of mind, and
hi" principles, the man Of all Others
to whom the interests Of his fellow
creatures might with most conf
dence be entrusted: that is, he was
the first Of the rulers Of mankind"
For Mayor W. j. Christian.
o. next Monday the penpe Of
Du ham. will be called up % to seIect
The next MAYOR 81 Durham. There
are Nv" candidate bis orpon, nj.
apt. Frt"land /, u pure upright
hri'tian gentleman. lie served a.
: aver five years, and made a mus
I'll: ent tfi;er
NJ. Chistiar filed for four years
he office OF clerk Of the Superiot
court. lie has been q Resident II
this place siuce long Def re thsr. wa.
! Town, He has made one Of the
nest may0rs ID ,rnam has ever had
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