Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-23

and CALAMITY he succeeded and with
| the glory which encircles his name as
| a warrior. Not. however. as a warrior.
but as a statesman, do we owe him the
most profound homage, the deepest
gratitude. When the war was brought
to a glorious conclusion, Washington
found himself an object OF almost ador-
| alton by his countrymen, In the hollow
of his hand he held the destinies Of a
nation and then II was he showed his
true greatness, his magnanimity, his
| contempt for the gaudy trappings, the
| gewgaws Of royalty. The greatest of
Roman warriors. the immortal Caesar
had fought valiantly to add still more
! glory, give still more prestige 10 the
Roman name. but in the hour Of his
triumph. he wished 10 substitute the
imperial viii for the law Of right and
| liberty. TO rear the imperial throne on
the ruins of the majestic republic; but
no vulgar string OF ambition vibrated
In the heart OF Washington, RE had
drawn his sword against the tyrant, he
had battled for the true and the Just"
and in the day of victory, In the day Of
his exceeding greatness, in the day
when Apollo crowned with sunbeams,"
his loyalty he kept. his faith his love"
and so he spurned the kngly crown
presented by his officers.
Immediately after the war II was well
Indeed the country had a Washington
The paralysis and generalization nat
urally following a great struggle, the
clash Of rival factions, the jealousy Of
rival States, the scarcely suppressed
grumbling Of Tory hearts and British
sympathisers-all threatened to render
fruitless the glorious victory of the
colonsts.
Providence had, however. great de-
signs on the new commonwealth, and
the man OF destiny steps forward, steps
forward to mould the Earring and dis
cordant elements OF his country into a
nation such as the world has never
seen-a nation not where tigers shall
be developed In the lair OF oppression,
nor apes In the puerile atmosphere of
courtly sycophants,-a naiionl where
there shall be no sovereignty but that
OF mind. and no nobility but that Of
genius where there shall be no royal
Establishments, no lordly patronage, no
ducal smiles TO dazzle and make men
confound the figure with the substance:
nut nation where the Gospel princi-
pies shall have In SO many respects
their complete development; where the
fundamental principles OF the Consu-
tuition that all men are born equal and
with equal rights" simply re-ech0es
the words OF the great Apostle. That
IN Christ Jesus there Is neither jew nor
GENTLE, neither male nor female,
neither bond nor free" where the ma
ton Of law shall be that Of the Angelic
Doctor 81. Thomas. the real Catholic
doctrine, viz "a rule OF right reason
and not the debasing will OF man be-
cause II Is his will, nation'-where
the man can be a man II he Is willing
to TOLL" where all can drink at the soul
inspiring fountains of liberty; ana
where the oppressed Of other lands can
md a home, a welcome prosperity and
happiness.
This was the nation. that under the
presiding genius Of Washington was
10 burst forth like a meteor on a world
In the gloom Of political slavery and
degradation: that was 10 revolutionlze
Old Ideas Of man as a political being
and prove In practice that noble
hearts are more than coronets' and
freedom better than descent from BAR
harlan kings and princes. Wonderful.
most wonderful OF all, this nation was
practically to have no infancy. Tne
bringing forth was indeed painful. ac-
eompanisd by mahy a pang. pnt the