Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-02-22

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The discomfort and apprehension
continued, a meeting of officers was ar
ranged and there were issued the
"Newburg Addresses" intended to
arouse the army to resentment. Wash.
ington, unlimited, attended the meet.
ing and made an address, in which he
declared the claims of the army would
not be ~disregarded, and begged his
hearers "to express their utmost hor-
ror and detestation of the man who
wishes, under any specious pretenses,
to overturn the liberties of our coun.
try, and who wickedly attempts to
open the foodgates of civil discord
and deluge our rising empire in
blood" The result of his appeal, reso'
lutions were unanimously adopted con.
curing in the policy he proposed.
Shortly before the dissolution of the
army Washington addressed a letter
to the. governors of the states, urging
upon them realization of the four
things essential to the existence and
%well-being of the United States:
First, an indissoluble union Of the
states under one federal head; second,
a sacred regard to public justice;
third, the adoption of a proper peace
establishment; and, fourth, the preva.
lence of that pacific and friendly dis.
position among the people of the Unit.
ed States which will induce them to
forget their local prejudices and poll
cies, to make those mutual conces-
sions which are requisite to the gen.
eral prosperity, and, in some in.
stances, to sacrifice their individual
advantages to the interest of the com.
munity." These he counted 1.-THE pill.
lars On which the glorious fabric of
our i~ndependency and national char.
acter must rest"
In the domestic retirement so dear
to his nature, he kept careful watch
of public matters. We find in one of
his letters this estimate: THE con
federation appears to me little more
than a shadow without the substance.
and congress a migratory body"
Again he writes: 81 have ever been
: a friend to adequate powers in con
gress, without which it is evident to
me we shall never establish a national
character. We are either a
united people under one head and for
: federal purposes, or we are 10 indie
= pendent sovereignties, equally counter
, acting each other" Again, in more
: emphatic language: 81 do not con
y ceive we can exist longer as a nation
without lodging somewhere a power
:, which will pervade the whole unior
!, in as energetic a manner as the au
;, thority of the state governments eX
:, tends over the several states"
. In such perfect sympathy with thu
' idea of comforting greater powers or
the federal government, he consented
y to head the delegates from Virginia
= to the Philadelphia convention called
! May IA, 1887, and was unanimously
:, elected president of this convention
1t closed September II, on which DAFT
=. Washington, as n of his b~iographer'
phrases it, had the supreme satisfac
ton of addressing a letter to congress!
= announcing the adoption of the con
:, stitution of the United States. II
quote directly from the letter. III
all our deliberations on the subject
we kept steadily in our view tina
which appears to us the greatest inter
est of every true American-the con
= solidation Of our union-in which i
= involved our prosperity, our safety
and perhaps our national existence
On the 9Th of April, 1889, Washing
a ton was declared president Of the Unit
ed States. On the Both of April, h
was inaugurated. His wisdom an,
y 1rmness carried the ship of state safe
g ly through two administrations
though the waters oft were troubled
: At the close of the first term he de
i sired to withdraw to private life, bu
: was urged that duty to the countr.
I demanded he continue in public sery
SC ice. Jefferson wrote: "The confldenc
10 VI LuG WuOlC Coultiy 10 ,OhtSiSu 4
you. North and south will hang tc
gether IL they have you to hang on.
"a Hamilton used this persuasion: Il
y is clear that if you continue in ofic
!. nothing materially mischievous iS t
!. be apprehended. If you quit much is t
= be dreaded. . | trust, and
l. pray God, thai you will determine t
make a further sacrifice Of your tran
quillity and happiness to the publ
II good"
Washington the soldier, to whor
d proud CORVALLIS made surrender, al
e peals to the popular fancy. But tn
people should remember the hero wa
,r also 'drst in peace'--a nation builder
h Illustrous Example.
ID Stella-Hear about Mabel?
y Bella-Yes; she has resigned from Z