Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1902-02-19

txsry2-es fsss - ss@<. ~ tea~sz L. Arxzsx.
Dawa soxssher By an f1vssisss sone.
the people ct car broad bsne. thrvsxh
every state. IN every section, fr0=a sse scs-
Gers st the restless AtGsRtie 20 ths tz9ad and
ragged coast o, tbs nixhty P.esne. as-
ssDeae to-dsy 10 DO homage TO fse Eesn-
orr If he greatest character ia hansn his-
tory--fhs noble s0zI that led foyts oar
fathers frora tss bondage o; oppression;
the mighty gentsz tsss sha ped e9r nation
al csssiayi the peerless pxtrt0s. George
wssaingfoB.
We Americans, a. q nation, are CHARGED
sikh sort 81 cra56Asn hero wcrsh8p--a
xisc Of leosstry, xas wsaea ne rsxxrc
ozr great nBsm--yst where is the nsston
tssi ca boast Of ssch BooIs characters.
o. preseas to the world saea an array Of
ssrosst Has Eny either land prodgesc
szeh nosn.
Yes, alb, yesl For thousand years hs.
Hearty struggled in her espsor's grssp;
cognsA ss lives Of elemental grsstne.e,
under the dread msaseIes OF savage op-
preston, have been offered up In hopeles-
ssrfare a. tue affairs OF their fat herssad.
Il fsn&ined for Washington 10 anl-h
vast others hsa begsa. Calmly and fear
less y be faced be - ! p@Eda0Gs task t,eioFe
hius grsDdiy and notify cis be achieve II
5t0Utsr be-rrs tAsn biz might have shraaa
from tos load HAT was tarQst apon hin
Egg se3r- OF ihs zrave-t responsibility
that q Trusting soui can bear tor MS fello~
m=nl Eight ioag years OF ssngutnsry
CONFLICT, struggling with proud nation
that knew NOT dsfesfi The % worlc
looked on Ia wonder, So the nBseasi
conf ct sufged aud sssyed from Maine t.
Carolina.
Warrington In the foreground, cain
and collected in victory and defeat, ever
planning 10 his all but 6espairing heart
Essn the fsrrioIe safzrlsgs Of valley
Forge could not turn him from his por-
pose nor exGinguish la his bosom ths lore
Vt liberty.
Bat brighter days came; peace settled
over tie late scenes OF carnage. The
ADsrictn rspa bile wss free nation at
last. Washington stood alone la the love
Of bis people. the greatest gsaius OF the
sestsrn world Nor yet xss bis task com
p eied- Tne hour Of neei called bin to
The helm Of state. Here the same great
ness that had characterized his former
deeds broagat forth and founded the
most peerless government that the worIo
has ever seen.
When AZ length, in the last year of the
century whiea bore him, nature called
nin from his lsoors, he had made Tor
himself name That will never die. More
th2n one fuil century has elapsed since
that noble soul passed on to his final re-
ward; decade after decade has pushed u
steadily onward la The ever " ideniog
highwsy Of national prosperity; and as
we pause TO glance back oFers tue mile
stones OF our republic, and survey With
sadness tbs f&dinz, glinmering, pathway
over which we have come, we aote with
ioy that w@sbington's name lives on, his
fame sod glory moves onward with u,
rtsiag, ever rising, the morning altar Of
the American R-pubiic.
From every fire-ids ia freedom's birth
right his praise sseends. like grateful in
eense, from rich and poor alike. Still first
$50 ne nesrIs OF his eoGntrymeu he re-
70 sigi-i simple. uupretsudiag George
Washington, OF Virginia.