The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-15
IN MEMORY OF THE
NATIONS FOUNDER
CONTINUED FROM FIRST pAer. !

nation could not have achieved it's indie
pendence. could not have formed it's I'm,
ion, could not have put the Federal Gov
ermment into operation. His work was
original and constructive and has success
fully stood the severest tests.
'He selected the site for the capital
of the republic he founded, and gave it
the name of the Federal City, but the
commission substituted the name of
Washington as more fitting. More than
seventy million of people acknowledge al
legiailce to the flag which he made
triumphant. The nation is his best
eulogist and his noblest monument.
ETLOGIZED BY HIS CO .4ERS.
II have been deeply interested and
touched by the sentiments of his contem-
poraries, uttered hundred years ago ON
the occasion of his death. The Rev. Wal
ter King, of Norwich, Conn, in the
course of an eloquent eulogy delivered
in that city ON January 9th, $500, said in
part:
by one mighty effort of manly resolu-
tion we were born anew, and declared
our independence. Now commenced the
bloody contest for everything we held
dear. The same Almighty Being by
whose guidance we were hitherto con-
Quoted, beheld us with compassion, and
saw what we needed-a pilot, leader in
the periloues enterprise we had under
taken He called for Washington, al
ready prepared, Amounted him as His SER
want with regal dignity, and put into his
hands the control of all our defensive OPP
erations.
"But here admiration suppresses ut
terance Your minds must fill out the
active character of the man. But this
/ may say--the eyes of all our American
Israel were placed upon him as their sa-
vior, under the direction Heaven, and
they were not disappointed
THE Rev. Nathan Strong, pastor of
the North Presbyterian church in Hart
ford, spoke as follows, on December 9th,
1899:
"NHe was as much the angel of peace
as of war. as much respected, as deeply
reverenced, in the political cabinet for a
luminous coolness of disposition whereby
party jealousy became enlightened and
ashamed of itself, as he was for a cool
ness of command in the dreadfulu moment
when empires hung suspended on the fate
of battle. His opinions became the opin-
ions of the public body and every man
was pleased with himself when he found
he thought like Washington.
Under the auspices Of this great war
rior. who was formed by the Providence
Of God to defend his country, the war
was ended and America ranked among
the nations. He who might have been
a monarch retired to his own Vernon, nm
clothed of all authority, to enjoy the
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And ON the day preceding, December
26th, 1899. in the course of his nlemora-
bic funeral Grafton before both houses Of
Congress Major General Lee then a rep
resentative from the State of Virginia
gave utterance to the noble sentiment
as forceful today as i'll those early years
of our rational life:
TO the horrid din of battle sweet
peace succeeded, ard our virtuous chief,
mindful only of the common good, in Il
moment tempting personal aggrandae-
ment, hushed the d.scordant note of grow
ing sedition and, sllrrendering his power
into the hands from which he had receiv-
ed it. converted his sword into n pillow
share, teaching an admiring world that
to he truly great, you must be truly
good
while strong with his own generation.
he is strong even in the Judgment of the
generations which have followed. After
a lapse of Il century he is better appre-
ciated, more perfectly understood, more
thoroughly yenerated and loved than
when he lived. He is recognized as not
only the most faT-sighted Statesman of
his generatiom but as having had almost
prophetic vision He built not alone for
his own time, but for the great future, and
pointed the rightful solution of many of
the problems which were to arise in the
years to come.
"John Adams, the immediate successor
of Washington, said of him in an adj
dress to the Senate on the twenty-third
of December, 1893:
For myself, he had lived enough to
life, and to glory. For his fellow citizens,
if their prayers could have been answered
he would have been immortal
1.-THE nation needs at this moment the
help of his wise example We invoke the
counsel OF his life and character and
courage We summon his preeepts that
we may keep his pledges to maintain JUS
tice and law, education and morality, and
civil and religious liberty in every part Of
our country, the new as well as the old,
The President was interrupted fire.
quently by applause and at the close of
his grafton he was cheered heartily.
The exercises at the mansion We're
concluded with d benediction pronounced
by Brother Ed n. Calisch, Rabbi of
Beth Ahaba Synagogue of Richmond
Va.
AT 3 o'clock the Improved Order OF
Red Men in charge of the Great lncoho-
nee, Hon. George e. Green, of Bing-
hamton, n Y, held exercises at the
tomb Among the chiefs present was
Judge Robert IT, Daniels, Griffin. Ga.
Tonight the order supplemented their
Mount Vernon ceremonies with elabo-
rate exercises at Convention Hall,
speeches being made by Past Great i'm
cohonee Charles III. Iitchman, OF Mass
achusetts, and Great Prophet Robert
4. Daniel. of Georgia Senator Chaun-
cey M. Depew, Of New York, was the
orator Of the evening and was given a
hearty reception.
Memorial exercises were held at
Epiphany church this afternoon under
the auspices of local patriotic societies
Assistant Secretary of State David j.
Hill was the orator.
Tonight the George Washington me-