Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-02-24
. .HONORED WASHINGTON
BIRTHDAY OF NATIONS FATHER
FITTINGLY OBSERVED IN
THIS CITY
JUDGE CARNIODY DELIVERED
INTERESTING ADDRESS AT
JAMESTOWN COLLEGE

The one hundred and seventy
eighth anniversary of George Wash
ingtons birthday was observed at
jamestown with characteristic cere-
monies. Flags were flying from the
public buildings, the schools and pub
lie offices were closed and business
partially suspended and exercises
were held in honor of the great
American general and first president
Of the United States.
A special program was carried out
Tuesday evening at Jamestown col
lege commemorating the day. The
program included songs, recitations
and an address by Judge John Car
mody of Hillsboro, member of the
state supreme court, the feature Of
the evening.
Judge Carmody's address was an
The address was carefully compiled
and many interesting details of the
life of the father of our country por-
trayed in a pleasing, forcible man
ner.
Little is known of the ancestors of
George Washington, said the speak
er. One was mayor of North Hamp-
ton,z England, others fought for
Charles the First. Washington's
great grand father immigrated to
Virginia in 1868, and it is told that a
woman was hanged for witchcraft
upon the boat in which he came.
He was a man of means and pur-
chased large tracts of Virginia land.
The story. of Washington's early
life is we'll known, his study of sur
veying, then the proper occupation
for a gentlemen's son, his trip to the
French commandant at an Ohio fort
at the age of twenty, his service in
the French and Indian war.
In 1857 he married Mrs. Custis and
the union of their two estates made
him the wealthiest man in the col
onies.
The speaker told in full the story
of the war of the Revolution and
the wonderful victory won by Wash
ington and the sacrifices and hard
ships he endured, Notwithstanding
that he was an aristocrat. slave owner
and the wealthiest man in the col
onies. Washington had everything
to lose and nothing to gain by the
revolution it would seem.
Next followed the story of the
forming of the nations government,
the constitution, and the election of
Washington as the first president of
the United States and his death at
Mt. Vernon in December, 1893, where
after few hours illness he breathed
his last mourned by the people Of
the entire civilized world.
A celebrated poet said to Wash
ington, where shall we rank thee,
upon glory's page thou more than
soldier, and just less than sage? All
thou has been reflects less fame on
theeS far less, than all thou hadst
foreborne to be-"
Charles Phillips, the celebrated
Irish orator, said of him, ut mat
ters very little what immediate spot
may be the birth place of such a
man as Washington. No people can
claim, no country can appropriate
him. The boon of providence to the
human race, his fame is eternity
and his residence creation. AS a
general he marshalled peasant in
to a veteran, and supplied by dis
cipline the absence of experience.
AS statement he enlarged the pol
icy of the cabinet into the most COM
prehensive system of general advan
tage.
.5 II he had paused here history
might have doubted what station to
assign him, whether at the head of
her citizens or soldiers, her heroes
or her patriots. But the last glor-
ious act crowns his career and ban
ishes all hesitation. Who, like
Washington, after having emancipat !,
ed q hemisphere, resigned his crown.
and preferred the retirement Of do-
mestic life to the alteration Of a
land he might almost be said to have
created s,s
Fox, the English statesman. said
Of Washington, It has been reserved
for him. to run the, race Of glory.
without experiencing the smallest in
teruption Of the brilliancy Of his ca,
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It is hard for US to. realize when.