Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-01

Among the curios and heirlooms that
exist in many a family has been re-
called today a copy of the Ulster Coun-
ty Gazette. published at Kingston, N.
Y, Jan. 4. 1900 This paper, yellowed
with age, has been preserved by the
ancestors of John d. Palmer, of Mar
shaltown, and treasured by him for
many years, because it contains the
news of the death of George Washing
ton, together with brief accounts of
memorial expressions In both house
and senate of the United States. The
paper was in heavy mourning, double
column rules being turned on two
pages.
AS indicated by dates in the paper
referred to news did not travel 1903
years ago with the celebrity it does to-
day. For instance the burial of George
Washington, which occurred on Dec.
is. 1899. did not appear in the Ulster
Gazette until its issue of Jan. 4, 1900.
This report was dated at George
Town. Dec. 90" and reads as follows.
with the exception that many of the
words were in italics.
"On Wednesday last the mortal part
of WASHINGTON the Great--the
Father of his country and the Friend
of man, was consigned to the tomb,
with solemn honors and funeral pomp.
"A multitude of persons assembled,
| from many miles round, at Mt. Yer
non. the choice abode and last resi-
dence of the illustrious chief. There
were the groves-the spacious avenues,
| the beautiful and sublime scenes, the
noble mansion-but, alas! the august
| inhabitant was now no more. That
great soul was gone! His mortal part
was there indeed; but ah! how affect
ing! how awful the spectacle of such
worth and greatness, thus, to mortal
| eyes, fallen-Yes! fallen! fallen!
In the long and lofty Portico, where
oft the Hero walked in all his glory.
now lay the shrouded corpse. The
countenance still composed and serene,
| seemed to depress the spirit, which
lately dwelt in that lifeless form!
There those who paid the last sad hon
ors to the benefactor of his country,
took an impressive farewell view.
"On the ornament at the head of the
coffin, was Inscribed SURGE ad Jul
dicum-about the middle of the coffin.
GLORIA DEO-and on the silver
plate,
GENERAL
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
| Departed this life on the 14th De-
cember, 1899"
Then follows description of boom.
| ing artillery from vessels In the river,
the forming Of a military procession,
march to the family vault on the bank
of the Potomac and the closing of the
| nh cl
impressive paragraph:
! THE sun was now setting. A$is! the
SON OF GLORY was set forever. No
umph over DEATH! The unclouded
brightness of his Glory will illuminate
| the future ages!"
| On another page, under the heading
Congress, House Of Representatives"
date Dec. 10, appears an address by
Congressman John Marshall prefixing
the introduction Of brief resolutions of
respect and coincidence on the death of
Washington, which were unanimously
adopted and presented to President
John Adams. Mr.. Marshall said:
"The melancholy event which was
yesterday announced, without doubt
has been rendered too ertain. Our
Washington is no more. The hero, the
sage and the patriot of America, the
man on whom, in times of danger,
every eye was turned and all hopes
were placed, lives now only in his own
great actions, and in the hearts of an
afflicted people.
eff, sir, it had not been usual openly
to testify respect for the memory of
those whom Heaven has selected as it's
instrument for dispensing good to
man; yet such has been the uncom-
mon worth, and such the extraordin-
airy incidents which have marked the
life Of him whose loss we all deplore.
that the whole American nation, i'm
PEELED by the same feelings, would
call, with one voice for public man
Hesitation of that sorrow which Is so
deep and universal.
more than any other individual, and
as much as to one individual was
possible, has he contributed to found
this, our wide-spreading empire, and
to give to the western world its indie
pendence and it's freedom. Having eff
fected the great object for which he
was placed at the head Of our armies,
we have seen him convert the sword
into the plowshare and voluntarily
sink the soldier lin the citizen.
when the debility of our federal
system had become manifest, and the
bonds which connected the parts Of
this vast continent were dissolving, we
have seen him the chief of those pa
triots who formed for US a constitu-
ton, which, by preserving the union
will, I trust, substantiate and perpet-
uate those blessings our revolution had
promised to bestow.
| "In obedience to the general voice
| of his country, calling on him to pre-
side over great people, We have seen
him once more quit the retirement he
loved, and in a season more stormy
| and tempestuous than war itself, with
calm and wise determination pursue
the true interests of the nation and
contribute more than any other could
contribute to that system of policy
which will, I trust, yet preserve our
peace, our honor and our. independ-
ence. Having been twice unanimously
chosen the chief magistrate Of free
people, we see him. at time when his
reelection with the universal suffrage
could not have been doubted, affording
the world a rare instance of moder-
alton. by withdrawing from his high
station to the peaceful walks OF pri-
! waite life.
"However public confidence may
| change. and the public affections f1uc-