Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-02-15

sion He was not hasty in his acts, and
therefore not defeated; he was not swift as
a sea hawk in his decisions and therefore
he was never out OF sight OF those who
followed with him; he was not abnormal
in his intellect and therefore not cratic;
he was not fierce partzan and therefore
not dragged into the unsee nly squabbles
OF his day.
The grand old man of England whose
y.-Gladstone-hass said this of Washing
ton: 81 look upon Washington among
great and good men, as one parculiarly
good and great He has been to me for
more than forty years light upon the
path of life " 1t means that great hearts
are greater than national bounds that he
who lives right. he who lives unselisbly
hs whose words speak out grand inspira
ions belongs not TO a nation but to hu
nanty In which respect Washington
has no advantage over the humblest of US
who have open hearts for noble impulses
1t seems almost a coincidence that our
thoughts should have been directed last
week towards Lincoln and his actions in
elation to the sla,e conditions OF the
United States If we call him the eman-
.ipator Washington should be called the
great pre- visionary In 1889 he wrote: at
IS among my first wishes to see some plan
adopted by which slavery in this country
may be abolished Again in 1897 he
wrote: 81 wish from my soul that the
Legislature OF this state could see the pol
icy OF a gradual abolition of slavery 1t
might prevent much future mischief >
Alas, the mischief did come; the wine
press OF a nations blood was trodden in
righting wrong and the abolition came
when even those who benefited by it were
agonized and dazed the light OF liberty
around them Washington's great dream
and comparatively modest bequest was for
an anti ectional national university This
would have broughta better understand
ing where here should have been no mis-
unders andng The dream is not too late
for fulhlment and supreme efforts for
carrying out Washington idea to the full
should be made during this centennial
year of his death
Washington's sword was mighty-his
pen was mightier His sword wore out
the enemy more often by leading it on
truitless chasings and ewildered houn-
behring's than by pitched battles and de-
cisive combats But his pen-as | have
said on previous occasion hi pen and
those of the group of men around hun force
l. L. It, Ia.
foundations of a western mpire so ad
mirably that uneXampled expansion has
not rent aeunder work ceinented with
blood, with lives and with sacred honor
You impressionahe youths whose
brows already glow with the dawn of a
new century, compare Washington as he
finally sheathed h ) sword IN March, 1874
with the lace frIlled top, the English
George, who in the same month OF the
same year attained his majority and eel
ebrated 1t with pomp Clothes and title
have their glamou but glamour passes
The quiet, unobtrusive man, whose sword
was clean and heart also, is already more
t the world than all the four Georges
together
Our leader did not have cometic career
of splendid wickedness. His was a gay
life beside such a one Yet his told tells
and VIII forever tell the value OF modera-
ton in all things and devotion to an ideal
In this is a moral for US all. OF his end he
said year in advance: Nv neither to night
or tw enty years hence makes no difference
know am in the hands OF Good Prov
idence " And when the struggles of death
were upon him, he said: doctor, | de
hard, but am not afraid to die " lot
of nonsense this for hose who think life
goodness, all farce; but sense unutter
a bic and indescriba for those who are
busy about the worlds duties
Down the post office steps the Rev. DR.