The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1889-04-05

On another was sun, and under 1t
"Behold the rising empire" A third
was the rattlesnake flag, with the
threatening, "Don't tread on me- On
the hill overlooking the bridge and the
river was signal to give the people
warning Of the Presidents approach.
Toward noon on the Goth of April
the signal was suddenly dropped, and
soon after, Washington, with Governor
Mifflin and host of gentlemen who
had gone ont to meet him at the boun-
Diary line of Delaware, was seen riding
slowly down the hill toward the river.
As he passed under the first triumphal
archway the crown of laurel was drop
ped on his brow, and salute was fired
from the cannon on the opposite shore,
and the people, shouting "Long live
the President went over the bridge
with him to the eastern bank, where
the troops were waiting to conduct
him on to Philadelphia The whole
city came out to meet him, and as he
passed through dense lines of cheering
men the bells Of every church rang out
a merry peal, and every face, says one
who saw them, seemed to say, "Long,
long, long live George Washington
That night he slept at Philadelphia,
was addressed by the Executive Coun-
ell of State, by the Mayor and Alder
men, by the judges Of the Supreme
Court, the faculty Of the University of
Pennsylvania, and the members of the
Society of the Cincinnati, and early the
next morning set out with troop of
horse for Trenton. On the bridge
which spanned the Assanpink Creek,
over which, twelve years before, the
Hessians fled in confusion, he passed
under a great dome supported by thir-
teen columns, and adorned with Il huge
sunfower, inscribed .'To thee alone. y
The women of Trenton had ordered
this put up, and just beyond the bridge
were waiting, with their daughters,
who, os he passed under the dome, be-
gan singing:
Welcome mighty chief once more
Welcome to this grateful shore;
Now no mercenary foe
Aims again the fatal blow
Aims at thee the fatal blow.
"viryins fair and matrons grave.
Tho-e thy ccnquering arms did SAFE.
Build for thee riumphsi bowers.
Strew, ye fair, his way withd overs
Strew your Heros way with howers.''
As the last lines were sung the bevy
of little girls came forward, strewing
the road with flowers as they sang
Washington was greatly moved, thank
ed the children on the spot, and before
he rode out of town the next morning
wrote a few words to their mothers.
From Trenton he passed across New
Jersey, escorted from county to county
by the State militia, to Elizabethtown,
where committee, with a barge pro-
vided by Congress, was really to carry
him to New York. Rowed by thirteen
of the harbor pilots, the barge sped on
through the Kill van kull toward
New YorkBay. followed by train of
boats bearing the few officers of the old
Confederation necessity still kept IN
their places. In one was the Board of
Treasury; in another the Secretary of
War; the Secretary of Foreign Affairs
was in q third.
About the entrance to the Kill was
gathered navy Of river craft gay with
flags and brightly dressed women, and
noisy with cheering men. As the
barges of the President and his party
passed by, SHOWS and shallops, track
scouts and row-boats, with one accord
took place in line, and the procession,
stretching out for more than mile,
swept on toward New York, past the
Spanish war ship ''Galveston," which
saluted with thirteen guns; past the
ship "North Carolina" which answer
ell the Spaniard's salute, while over
the water to those OH shore came the
blare of conchs and trumpets, the
sound of song and music, and the stir
ring notes of "Stony Point" AS the
little fleet came around the head of
Governors Island the shouts were tax
en- up by the crowd that lined the
shore or stood in a dense mass about
the spot which, bright with flags and
bunting, marked the landing place at
Murray's Wharf There Washington
WAS met BY Governor Clinton and the
members of Congress, and escorted by
all the troops in the city to the house
made ready for his use. That night
the revelry was louder than ever. for
scarcely tavern but had song OF an
ode written for the occasion by some
frequenter who passed for a poet. OF
the few that have come down to us,
one was sung to the air God save the
King:
..Ha. thou auspiciou, day'
Fur let America
Thy praise re>ound
10y 10 native land.
Let ev'ry heart expand,
For WAshingtons at hand,
With glory crowned,
Thrice beloved Coluinbia. hail:
Behold before the gale
Your chief advance.
The mAtchless Hero's nigh;
Applaud him TO the sky,
Who gave you liberty,
With gen'rou. France
Thrice welcome TO this shore.
bur leader more,
But ruler thou.
q truly gooi and great,
Long live 10 glad our state.
Where countless honors wait
To deck thy brow'
, Prof. JOHN BACH MCMASrER, in
Harper's !Ndya=ine for April.