Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-25

sstd his earnest longing for Et,e1t There aIso n Masaehusetts and Con Ezsctielit Was ti1e Phi fii6 child df fIiose who ean1e nj the May Yer, pearing with them the sacred thoagllt. for which Cromwell had fought and John Elliot had gone to prison.
 Where was the man who could in carnate all these powers? Where was the power that could gather into it's strong hand every one of these ener- gies? We wait and we look for single moment. Then, ladies and gentle men, out of the shadow there at Cam bridge steps George Washington [applausel, with his sword flashing with every page of this history; his eye glowing with every touch of this enthusiasm, and that spirit never res el until new Nation was born. and until George Washington stood and asked England to surrender to these new ideas, Ladies and gentlemen, it was the old fght-it was Cromwell meeting Charles I. and at last con- quering him. It was the transferrence of that old conception to our own land
 When this great leader had finished his course as a soldier, the great ideas with which he had to deal had the r g~andest battle and their surest triumph. If we call the field of York town and Valley Forge and Bunker Hill sublime, what shall we call the days of that constitutional conver- tion, where this sublime man sat with the same fearless power that made John Gage acknowledge George Wash ington General of the United States How could we dispense wish the great force that had held the post for six months against English power? Through that constitutional conven- tion this new American idea shone like north star. It was a genuine Americanism which day by day held that convention when it seemed inn possible to hold the forces of freedom and to mass them in the form of gov ernment. At last, the Constitution came. The Constitution of the United 1 States, my friends, is the record of a noble Americanism, but It Is not so noble as the Americanism of George Washington. He saw within its com promises something which other m n might not clearly understand. Tlis man Washington had fought against the monarchy, and he wanted non- archy in America. He had fought with loose confederacy of poor colo nies behind him, and George Wash ingtOn wanted no confederdcy. He had stood face to face with the proud est monarchy in the world He knew it's strength and he knew its weakness, but as he stood there he reflected how it would be, and then it was that he blttled for d Nation, just as he did at York town, just as he did at Mon mouth. He battled for an organized commonwealth of the States, and no man can so far do Washington's gen jus discredit as to suppose for mo- ment that he believed in any joint stock corporation of States called a confederacy. It was for Nation that he gave his life and his thought. Alp plause.
 Now, it was precisely this thought ill Washington which carried his gen. jus on through all our political times until now. He saw, as I said in the compromises of the Constitution danger. He knew that secession would some day lift up its head. He could already hear the mutterings of the slave power. He could already see down the centuries the lifting up oi the hand of single State and the asking of single flag, instead of the flag of the stars and stripes. And ladies and gentlemen, when Calhoun had staked everything on nullification it was the genius of George Washing ton that stood in the stalwart form oi old Andrew Jackson [applause] and said, By the Eternal, the Union must be preserved" When Robert Y Hayne, the most skillful orator of the South, stood in the United States Senate, and lifted up the principles oi Calhoun in an almost matchless speech, it was the genius of George Washington again that massed its splendid powers into the oratory of the great defender of the Constitution Daniel Wets5er [applausel ard he made this Union tremble in its very citadel as he said "Liberty and Union now and forever, one and inseparable.' | Loud applause. When at lastsiFezE very powers that had lifted thenaselTel up in skillful orations and great stats papers massed themselves al ofl Sumter and hurled against tlie e2fia} and fortress their shot and shnljs Il was the genius of George Wash l-sssSs again that stood down yOndtr la Springfield in the person of Abfahan Lincoln [great applause and sad C the country: Il believe that tl1si country can not endure half sla lse :alls half free" And at last, when ollg, xic tory came in 1865, it was the geTlius D this incomparable leader which, 1hors than all else, seemed to promise fol North and South large and splnndA future. Ladies and gentlemen, present. t you George Washington as the tFpicsa leader of our Amercan thought -ss4 genius is American in every fibefs1iil thought is our hope, and his ireplra tion shall be our praise. We look a him to-day in the heavens of history far removed from the Caesars ans Napoleon He is with Williar1 Q Nassau. He is with Oliver Cromwell He is with Phocion. He is with tn great leaders of the heart and ho ae 70 mankind, and we say, My father, m. father. the chariots of Israel and tn
 horsemen thereof. [Tumultuous1 aF l plause. Yankee Notions.