New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-28
PRESIDENT WASHINGTON.
THE BIRTH or THE REPUBLIC.
snlRrEEN SovERElGNTIES MAKE A NATION
TIL, WORK or THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONvEN.
1ION-ONLY WASHINGTON COULD DE


HALL and lifting the other high above Inn, called
on, 70 the mulitudcS IN the streets below, Long
live George Washington. President Of thu United
4 States -, long, grand. shout arose from ten
4 thoa>,nd patriotic threats and the first act Of
National Government in America was accomplished
/ All d.y long IN, people gave expression TO their
| reJoclncs. All day long bands played and soldiers
rarad, d. cannon doomed and bells pcalcd ioyouSly
/ All day long shook each others hands and
pl,decl their loyal faith TO the Constitution
/ and 10 The noble man, foremost among them ALL
4 whom with one voice the whole land had chosen
4 AS its first Executive.
But thrrc were many in the multitude and many
tlrou ghout the now united country whose faces
! wore an anxious and ominOu> aspect ana who
shook their heads doubtfully They had passed
throueh SIN stormy years since thrir beaten foes
had fed. and IN the events that had preceded this
day Of Grand and portcntous ceremony they had
pcrc Hvci little Of glory and less Of promise and
4 hope Nor we're they certain now whether the
| words Livingston lad spoken words Of i'll or
happy omen. The Constitution had not been
4 adopted without a mighty struggle Arraycd
against II in every State was powerful oppoSi-
ton whose patriotism and sincerity were be> ond
4 al question. Governor Clinton in New York;
Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee in virginia
4 Eihridce Gerry in Massachusetts. Sumter and
Burke in South Carolina; Whtchill and Findicy
in NdUSW0rtn
Anterior in NcWIIarpshnc, and Chase, Mercer
80 N,,,,, -, N.rvl,nJ wore some Of the valiant
90, la:,o., ,,.. ,,I hod frc.l,- offered their lives
Il g. - o,,,.. ,ofc,co I'm, who stocd ont in
-. ,1.,,r,,r 90 49,. N,,ionoI scb.mc Of the
Cnr.,i,,,ior They were no, immersed with the
49,, had co,,o ,,n,, the land in ,hc snort
70 preserve harmony among thirteen separate
sovcrcl-ntIcs rl~' they ascFihcd such evils as
f thcy were compelled 10 acknowledge to other
Gauss ''"" '"' ii.,,I,I,
II j. mol mere '''''I"'1' - go III"
OF ''' N'."'"'m .''I1 -.
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/ poor "'''.'' VI Wv , . h
/ pT'"'' ""'O' ' ~. or,
4 common N'"N' VI '''' ~ '' -. ,,1 j.
/ days III WHO" N"' '"'''l'" = 'I'
A Small esteem anu i''''''- - nv"
than the part They took in tAc cS''p"S"i''''. VI
the Government. Inc "d' b'' ''''''','
which even the Io"llc>t 81 'hem s"ieN i'.' ""
they were bound not 10 lose hy internal dISNch
siols and Jcalousic> the pri~e th"Y i'i 50 haruN
Won They We're sensitive to the hh''rH an"
prophecies Of their enemies "h"' l"iIn- =" 'I'
due them. wcr' waiting gl"cfnIly eAlFc'"t Oh INV
reign Of dIscord. They were not long III per
ceivlng that anarchy was the lheNitihF eilu u
government which was without inherent "u-
shortly. which rendered the greater dependent
A
che ricbt f. create one, which resolved in bind
a rese and dccr,cd IN impotence.
o,oir Conc,c>s. whose early achievements were
b an magnificent, the Congress that, coming to-
SORT of colonial conference, had seized
,,.a... ro,,,r had raised and equipped
-, Ia, l,,,,rbcl ,a,ic, upon the sea. had
,.,od rrn,r,!> had sent ont ambassadors,
q g., ,,d ,,,, ,.c,ti,> had procaimcd indie
3 - L., ,.,,,,.,l International alliances had
and
& -, ,,.,,., ,.nic,, Of supreme power had
.,o ,,.r to . successful end. WA, now
n .n. $780,, ,;,,,,,l ,o,tor,,t All It's glorious deeds
- ,.,,, II lead M, 50 much - II home:
-, ., from, most to pillar its authority
aac, =, ,ro,,,i>c, launched at IT'S recommends
"a ,ions IGNORED II had become the butt OF ridicule
b And H.. ,1c,i Of National DISGUST. The country
81 o. an, re-.,d with a debit for which provision
"a 49,. r,,,l.r made, nor possible The States we're
So xiolo,in, trcal., - which the whole Nation was
81 ,.,d H.,cll,.n, were breaking out here
81 ana there which 10 authority competent To
.,hlu Issue, Of paper money were making
E h.,o ,,,tl commerce. There was nc security
& ae,.,,, foreign INVASION. no power 10 prevent any
81 NJ tn States from rro>ckIus War with Other
q Power or with each other. 10 urit to establish
10 tariff - collie, taN,s to declare war, I" conduct
NJ defence. or 10 do any other act mat r'hd'fo"
~ che States nthic m common for consequences III
portart - AL The very sov'rrign'l'N Tor "h'"
s. the pcollc had spilled thoir blood ami spent 'h'lr
y treasuic WEI hcc 'mc the rock upon W"'h az
their hopes, all tt'iF AMBITIOUS were p'l"- N''"N
s. wrecked
81 TO such men IL Washington Franklin llamIl-
81 Non, Adams and Madison TINS condition "i aHairs
was rncndurhlc HE Articles Of Confederation
- were formed III l'''. ana Were 'htf'N S"'h''cn'
20 long ~ the p"f'''' To them ma '"' N'"N"
RI end and that a common or - TIC INSTRUCTION "I