The Portland daily press., 1900-02-23


Edwin p. Wilson, Mssisn y. Wilson,
Sarah q. Moulton. VIM. Grant Ella
10. 8. Hutchinson, Robert 8. 7homes
VIII. shurtlsff. Fannie II. Cornish. Leslie
@. Cornish, MP. Frank, Mrs.H. 8. Bur
rage, Edward Dsering Noyss, Mr.. and Mrs.
ME-. King, Mrs. Alfred KinR. Miss Luetts
King, n. p. King. Daniel Goodhus. Mrs.
y. o. 1lssier, Levi l.. Lincoln, Howard A
Lincoln. VIM. NJ. Marks. Mrs. VIM.
NJ. Marks, q. J. Mcdonald. Mrs..
To-. J. Mcdonald, Joseph A. Locke,
Mrs. L. b. Hunt, W. n. vinton
Gray; Miss s. II. bishop. Rev. Geo. N.
Howe, Lewiston; Edward A. Butler,
Kockiand; Thomas NJ. Bartlett, Jennie
Ii. Bartlett, Mrs. E. A. Butler. ho,k
land; Joseph b. Reed, Francis L. Little
field; Albert W. Butler. Rocklsnd; Her
bsrt Harris, Brunswick: J. ID. Cochrane,
Mrs Ida n. Coobrane. Saoo; J. W. ID.
Carter, Mrs. Agnes Ii. Carter; Henry
Mcfarland, Mrs. Mary y. mcfarland,
Concord, N. H.; Everard 4. Newc,mb,
Passport; q. h. Moron, Lewiston; N. p.
Frank, Florence r. Locke, Mrs. J. X.
vii son.
Ho,. A. +. Moulton presided at ths
post prandial exscrises. and Leslie q.
Cornish, Esq, of Augusta delivered the
principal addrets on "Chapter In Wash
ington's Life" He spoke as foilows'
MIR. CoRNIsH's ADDRESS;
Happy the nation that from its incep.
tion down along the years OF its journey
ing can claim long line of great men
as her children, men who, ~ Carlyle
says, taken up in any way ere profit
able co npsny." The day on which we
are gathered points to one who stands
out like an Alpine Peak which the storms
have ragged and the sunlight played for
mora than century, but Whose rugged
outlines have hesn brought into nobier
D o. o lions rs the storms have cleared
the atmosphere and the sunshine has
rendered vision mora perfect. Like the
other two sr.at s,ldier Presiients, Jack
son and Grant, Washington was man
OF silence, given to thought rather than
| to speech; man Of deeds, not words
yet 1t il safe to say that OF no other whom
| America and ger 5aps the English speak
ing RAGS have produced, has 40 much been
ur item and SO much been said. often
wonder II he him seif would care to listen
to the fulsoms suiogies that are poured
out whenever his name Is mentioned
he who In his simple modesty once said.
CAN res and most admire, the glare
| wtic hovers round the external hAppi-
ness Of elevated office; 70 me there Is
nothing In 1t teyond the luster which
mar b. reflected from Its connection
with q power of promoting human felioi-
| IT," Vast as 10 the subject, many sided
as It IL, 1t has teen covered so critically
and so.often that today could rot hope
| TO make even a suggestion that Is novel
or original. The life and the character
of Washingto form q part Of the eduoa.
ton and of the inspiration of every man
and woman In America, as they form
| the richest 70: tion OF our national heri'
tage. Sometimes l think he has been re-
garded too much as q god to be wor'
shipped aud too little as a man to be fol-
lowed; too much as a being above Us and
too little rs q mortal with US. Without
detraoti az at all from the truth. cannot
the ideal be made more rsals Addressing
n society composed of the descendants Of
the men who fought In the REVOLUTION
10 might be more appropriate to consider
the Washington of that epoch making
period, the Washington OF Trer ton, OF
Valley Forge and of Yorktown; hut
have In mind today picture Of him not
In war, but in peace; not unsheathinR
his sword against his oountry's foe, but
taking up the scepter Of constitutional
authority; not bringing disaster to an
enemy, but comfort and pI otsction to his
devoted people, and that single picture ID
all that would bring to yon this after
noon.
To me there Is no moment of his life &C
thrilling, none when the uniqueness OF
bis position stood cut 50 strong as when
on the seth day Of April 1889 on the bal
cony OF old Federal hall in the City Of
New York In the presence OF comrades
and friends he took the oath of an Office
which no man had ever taken tefore
promised to support q constitution
which he himsslf had helpsd to frame
and which then frat bTesthed the breath
of actual existance and when Chancellor
Livingston made for the first time the
proclamation Long live George Wash.
ington, President of the United States"
II "peaoe hath her Victories no less re
nown than war" SO too peace hath hsI
responsibilities no less weighty than war.
However firm the fibre Of his brain, how
ever answering the loyalty o. his heart
however steadfast his courage, he must
have been more than human had not his
hand and his voice trembled as he as
sumed the headship Of the new republic
How often IL painted fer Us the picture
Of Washington taking command of ths
raw recruits on Cambridge Common; Of
bis midnight crossing Of the Delawar,
amid snow and Toe; Of his pitiable CON
dition that long. Iona winter at VALLEY
Forge, and from each can be gained ,
vision Of the greatness of this grsa
man. But somehow my mind oftsneI
turns TO that April day when he raised