The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-09

the services on the day of W~ashington's in.
auguration were by the bishop OF
New York, the Ri Rev. Samuel Provost At
8 O'Clock the committee on states escorted
the president from the Fifth Avenue hotel,
ACCOMPANIED by the chief justice and men,
bers of the cabinet, and under an escort OF
police. proceeded to Vice President MortOn's
residence. The vice president entered Pres
ident Harrison's carriage, and the PROCESSION
moved down to st. Paui's. At the Vesey
street gate the party was met by the COM
mittee Of the vestry Of Trinity church, and
the president was conducted to the Washing
ton pew. The edifce was filled with the
weaithiest and most prominent! people In the
country. The address as delivered by RI
Rev. II. c. Potter. D, D., bishop OF New York,
in substance rs follows:
One hundred years ago there knelt within
these walls a man to whom, above all others in
its history. this nation is indebted. English
by race and lineage. he incarnated in his own
person and character every best trait and attri-
butte that have made the AnglO-SaxOn name q
glory to its children and u terror to It's enemies
throughout the world. But he was not so much
an Englishman that, when the time came for
him 10 be so. he was not even more American:
and in all that he was and did a patriot exalted.
and leader great and wise; that what men called
him when he came here to be inaugurated as the
first president of the United States the civilized
world has not since then ceased to call him
the Father Of His Country.
And SO, with inexpressible tenderness and rev.
erence, we ind ourselves thinking ct him here,
kneeling to ask such gifts and then rising to 20
forth to his great tasks with mien so august and
majestic that Fisher Ames. who sat beside him
in this chapel, wrote: Il was present In the pew
with the president and must assure you that
after making all deductions for the delusions OF
our fancy in regard to characters, I still think of
him with more veneration than Tor any otner
person"
yield to no man in my veneration for the
man who framed the compact under which these
states are bound together. No one can east y
exaggerate their services or the value OF that
which they wrought out. But: after all: we may
not forget to day that the tnins whi lGho sney
ception of the general government as a huge
machine, existing mainly for the purpose OF re-
wardin9 partisan service-thts was a conception
so alien to the character and conduct OF wash
ington and his associates that 1t seems grotesque
even to speak Of it. It would be interesting to
imagine the first president. Of the United states
approach him upon the basis of what are now
commonly known as practical politics" Blu
the conception Is impossible. e.
Here in this holy house we find the witness oil
that one invisible force which, because It alone
scan rule the conscience. is destined one day te
rule the world. In native majesty he was q
ruler. wise and strong and fearless n the sign,
of God he had learned. first OF all, to conquer ev;
cry mean and selfish and self-seeking aim. and
90 to rule himself. For 3
By force or custom? man who man would be
Must Julet the empire OF himself lin 1t
Must be supreme. establishing his throne
OF hopes and fears, being himself alone"
such was the hero. leader. ruler, patrl0g
whom we gratefully remember on this day. We
may not reproduce bis age, his ,s young ns,e ensi ron
ruled them prudently" like him. that kinely
ruler and shepherd Of whom the Psaim1st sang
with all his power" God give us the grace tt
prize his grand example, and, as we may In OIL
more modest measure, to reproduce his virtues