Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-27

asked him to prepare him to become q member
| and commitment of the church The reverend
gentleman told the general the most important
duty incumbent on him would be perhaps TO
him the hardest to perform, but II was i'm
perative.
General" he said, ''that duty is forgiveness
OF your enemies, and in the long life of political
| strife in which you have been engaged you may
| find it difficult, but it is one Of our. Divine
Lord most imperative commandments" The
| general said be recognized the necessity and
the difficulty. for his life had been filed with
| much Of bitter controversy that he was unpre-
| pared to say if he could really do so, and asked
the pastor to give him until the next day to
| consider it. He consented, of course, and after
praying with the old hero for the assistance of
Almighty God promised to return the next
day. When the minister came the next day, as
he writes, he told him he had forgiven them all
and goes on to tell DR.. Gwin the names of q num-
Der Of those he had forgiven, and among them,
/ remember. he says: Yes! forgive Poindex-
ter. though he had treated me very badly, as you
know" Others he names, and appeals TO the doc
tor to remember how unkindly they had
acted toward him and says Mt last: eyes, I for
give Buchanan for having for SO many years
deceived me AM caused me to do 80 much in
justice to Mr.. Clay" This unreserved and
hearty forgiveness from a man of Gen. Jack
sons implacable nature was regarded as o
manifestation of Almighty power and the sin
cere desire of the general to become o devout
member of the church. The reverend gentle
man expressed himself as entirely satisfied and
1t was arranged, as the general wrote. that on
the following Sunday he should be formally
received into the church. He concludes this
most interesting letter in his characteristic
said to him: 4 have most freely forgiven all
my enemies, but, by the Eternal, will never
forgive the enemies OF my dear wife,
A REMARKABLE PARALLEL.
The most remarkable parallel exists between
the preparation made for death by Frederick
Wilhelm of Germany and Gen. Jackson, as re-
lated by Carlyle. In the case of Frederick
Wilhelm the king was aware of the near APP
proach of death, and Carlyle says: Sends for
Chief Preacher Roloff out to Potsdam. has
some notable dialogues with Roloff, and two
other Potsdam clergymen. of which there is
record still left us. In these as in all his de-
meanor at thus supreme time, we see the big
rugged block OF manhood come out very WV
ldly-strong IN his simplicity, in his veracity.
Frederick Wllhelm's wish is to know from Ro-
loft what the chances are for him in the other
world. which is not less certain than Potsdam
and the giant grenadiers to Frederick Wilhelm
ana where he perceives, never half 30 clearly
before, he shall actually peel off his kinghood
and stand before God Almighty no better than
naked beggar." Roloff prognostics were not
80 encouraging as the king had hoped and after
some discussions between them, in which Ro-
Ion lays before the king some of his public
acts winch must be repented Of and repaired
miles, Your majesty is bound to forgive all
men. or how can you ask to be forgiven?''
well, will; do. You, Feekn, write to your
brother (unforgivablest Of beings) after am
dead that forgave him and died in peace with
HIM. Better her majesty should write at
once suggests Roloff ''No: after am dead"
persists the son of nature. "that will be safer!'
An unwedgable and gnarled block of manhood
and simplicity and sincerity. such rs We rarely
get sight OF among the modern sons Of Adam
among the crowned sons nearly never.
GEN. BEALE's BoYIsH FIGHT.
learned the other day the true story Of the
boyish fight in which Gen. Beale was engaged
when Gen. jackson interfered and separated
the youthful combatants. They we're hard at
cane between them, said: stop this fighting"
Tor they were on the Presidents grounds. then
a most solitary place and under a stone arch
which formed the entrance to the grounds.
The tight, OF course, was stopped. when Gen.
jackson SAID to Ned Beale: What are you
boys tlghting about? Put on your jacket, sir"
Ned Beale said THAT boy was hallooing hur-
rah for Adams and was hurrahing for Jack
SON.. The President said: "What is your name,
sIr!' my name is Ned Beale." ''Now Won go
home, hurrah for Jackson am Jackson-but
don't tight, and when you want anything come
to me. Gen. Beale in the meanwhile attended
John McLeods school on 9th street. row the
residence of Mr.. William Gait and opposite. on
the corner OF street. stood until a few
years ago, the little wooden house where Mr..
Charles Strahan taught school. The memory Of
the old pedagogue, John Mcleod, remains with
many Of our older citizens who attended that
famed school. The old gentleman can see now
I'm my minds eye" He was q specimen of the
Irish schoolmaster when Ireland. the land of
scholars, furnished the world with teachers
Like the famed Irish schoolmaster, which Mas
ter Burke used to represent as the infant Ros-
Sous. he adopted his mold of imparting knowl-
edge by the application of the rod. IF the
mind wouldn't mark, faith he'd soon mark the
back that he would do wild a - of crack,
The old man would take the culprit by the
collar. and leading him into the middle of the
school, point out his motto painted on the arch
between the two rooms-"Order is heavens
first law'-he would lecture him on his outrage
against that motto, closing with: ..Order IL
heavens first law. Columbia Academy, John
Mcleod, principal" Il don't care to whom
related or by whom begot. I'll thrash YOU. be
jabbers," and then would follow a severe casti-
CATION, sometimes so severe as to trench
on humanity. An old scholar of Nc
Leods relates an instance of the discipline
exercised In the school that On one occasion
boy who had been tried by ''dramhead court-
martial, organized to convict. y was sentenced
to be hung to the bell rope, which was midway
in the school. The boy was brought into school
with hands tied behind him, the whole school
In solemn procession attending. preceded bv
Ned Beae with drawn sword and with all the
solemnity of realism. Mr.. Smith. the assistant.
an Irish gentleman scholar. who resembled. as
recall him, Dominic Sampson. interceded in
all the impressiveness Of reality, and ..old
Mcleod as everybody called him, relented,
and the boy was spared, and he was duly i'm
pressed with the mercy vouchsafed such an in
corrigible offender.
HOW GEN. BEALE ENTERED THE NAVY.
After leaving school the mother of Gen.
Beale took him to the President to ask an ap
pOintment in the navy, where his grandfather,
Commodore Truxton, and his father, George
Beale, had served with distinction. At this in
terview Ned Deale interrupted his mothers an
peal and said: Mother, the President has no
time to listen to US, and said. II am Ned Beale.
who was hurrahing for Jackson. and you told
me when wanted anything to come to YOU.
My mother wants me to enter the navy, where
my grandfather and father served. and l want
midshipman's warrant" The President tore
from q letter 1--WE had no envelopes in tbose
days, but waters were universally used) piece
with the wafer still adhering to it and wrote:
Appoint this boy in the navy. A. j."
Take that to the Navy Department. nv bow.
and the Secretary will appoint you Thus it
that Gen. Edw. F. Bea1e entered the navy.
A few weeks ago I came across the announce
ment in the Inteiliqencer of 1912 3 the arrival
of Sloop of War at Rio de Janeiro with Charley
Hunter (Alvarado Hunter) as commander and
Edward Fitzgerald Beale as master Mr., Beale
of the navy accompanied Fremont across the
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