Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-10

, and mile. bat Who can measure mans
i'm mortal paSsions? Restless and insa-
tiate, no roarns the earth, not 20 much
10 feed and clothe the body ~ 70 put
The ouick Of conscience and the play OF
faculty in harmony with environments
and 20 console longings that will not be
content with comfort. 60 10 comes 70
nass tina. he, DO he saint, sage, pro-
phet, hero, patriarch, or statesman, who
inserprets to the nations tho sublimities
OF worship, who elevates their minds TO
principles OF justice, who warns their
hearts with the frasernities Of union. or
who smsncipates their genius TO the
blessings Of liberty, opens unto them .
new heaven and lays Mt their feet new
earth. whose bounds no seas may CON-
pass and whose fruits no reckoning may
tell.
II is in such wise that, while no one
bothers himself about the lost splendors
OF Solomon's Temple. that temple not
made with hands will ever stand,
aud oil hearts attend the teacher
OF the soul, whose life of
agony lay between his cradle
in o manger and His death upon tho
cross. 1t is in such wise, too. that the
Father Of his country, the friend OF
humanity. the dsliverer Of bis people,
lives uppermost to-day in their great
love and high fancies. And before the
portals Of bis dwelling-place the splen-
doris that fash upon the eye pass into
the shadow, while in their stead comes
the delectable visions OF an age OF res
son, in which mans conquest OF him.
self made these things possible. and OF
the still brighter sge TO come, when the
human family shall be gathered In
closer communion, "each man's right
be ell mems rule, and all mems work be
spread for each mans edification.
NEW WORLD.
1t was for Leon and CASTLE that Co
lumbus won o new world. Americans,
name that never sounded on his ears
Americans conquered the land. achieved
its independence and fashioned its in
stitutions The largoss OF an ancient
throne sent forth his expedition. A gov
eminent Of tho people is fixed on the
fruit of its achievement. The Roman
Church claimed the land as its fief. 1t
is in religious liberty that it is governed.
a corporation chartered by a king
brought the first settlers to the Atlantic
shore. The unfettered forces Of indivi-
dual genius and spontaneous movement
have planted their seed over the CONT
nent and bound together the distant
oceans with bands OF steel. Hither
came the first of our line without a
dream Of liberty, and even as Columbus
found what he sought not, this is their
unseen goal. and this their implanted
consummation. How have the Fates
unravelled the tangled skein, and with
what muffled footsteps has Providence
moved to this accomplishments
Here i'll this great city of the inland
sea, by the side OF waters which could
not know his wandering sail by nation
unborn when he existed under a form
Of government unknown to the ancient
world, by race speaking language to
which he was stranger, his deed finds
celebration, and looks back over the
centuries and halls Columbus.
WORLDS TO CONQUER.
There are no more continents to die.
cover, but there new worlds Of thought
to conquer, and We look forward also
and hail Washington. the leader Of
States yet 10 be planted, Of institutions
vet to DO moulded, Of triumphs for
right and justice yet to be sounded down
1.-The ringing grooves of change" IL is
his blood, the English-speaking race,
thst here witnesses It's marvellous Ca
pacity for organization, assimilation,
adaptation, and expansion. 1t is his
folk, the American people, that here
glories in the emblems Of national great
| ness. Ii is his brotherhood. the lovers
of liberty. that here avouch the
triumphant work of free institu-
tons, and it was his State
which on this day 274 years ago
planted tho first seed on the shore OF tho
Atlantic. And hare let history grave
this lesson on the stone: They who are
stoutest 10 defend individual right. homo
right, local right, State right are they
who are most capable of noble conquests
and permanent expansions. This IL the
story Of the Anglo-Saxon in England.
This is the story OF the Englishmen
around the world. This is the story Of
the American in their rivalry with the
Frenchmen and Spaniard. and this is old
Virginia amongst her sisters. 1t was as
her soldier, and at the head of her sol
diers, that Washington rode into the
wilds to drive the Indian and French
man from our frontier II was as her
law-giyer that he served for sixteen
years in her House of Burgssses it was
as her delegate that he went 10 the Con-
tinental Congress, to the Constitutional
Convention. And il Bancroft might
say But for him the country could
not have achieved its independence but
for him it could not have formed its
Union, and but for him it could not have
set the Federal Government in motion"
what shall we feel toward tho State
which shaped his character, made his
opportunities, introduced him to his
great career, bled by his side in many
battles, sustained his arms with treasure.
and gave him illustrious counsellors for
guidance
From the time when the first heart
| Deat OF American lie ana American
liberty pulsated in their bosoms the
Virginians paused not in their onward
tread until they had torn down the ban
ners of the French at Pittaburg until
Andrew Lewis and his Virginia troops
had scattered Cornstalk and his braves
at Point Pleasant in tho bloodiest battle
of forest warfare, and Virginia army in
the Valley Of the Scioto had nullified
British jurisdiction north Of the Ohio I;
until George Rogers Clark. with his
Virginia soldiers from the counties OF
Fsuquier, Frederick, and Kentucky,
had raised here in the heart OF the north
west the American flag over the con-
quered British and established Fort
Jefferson on the banks OF the Mis-
sissippi; until another Clark, his
brother, had gone with Lewis to ex.
plore the new northwest aud prepare
tho way for extending our dominion to
the Pacific until Mason had framed
that code OF rights which all free States
copy until Jeifarson had drawn the