The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-02-23
m|ributes to y
u Washington
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Contemporaries

VAT AsHiNGToN is dead.
" This great man battled
against tyranny. He has
made the liberty Of his country
a solid fact. His memory will
always be dear to the French
people as well as to all the free
people OF thu two cmisphercs,
and especially TO the French
soldiers who, like him and the
American coidiers, fight for
equality and liberty. In consc-
quence the first consul ordains
that during ten Gays black Grape
shall be suspended from all flag
stats of the spa5iic.-Napo!eon
in Order to the Army, Champ
Mars, 1900.
All his answers are pertinent.
He e-owa tho utmost reserve
and is very diffident, but at the
saraa time ho is firm and IN
chaasaab'e in whatever he I'M
dertakss. His nnodes.y must be
very astonishing, especially to a
Frenchman. He speaks of the
American war as though he had
not directed It and OF his vic
tories with an Indifference which
strangers even would not at.
fect.-Jean Pierre Brlssot.
place Washington In the first
rank among men whom II is tho
worlds duty to honor. He does
not belong to you alone; he be-
longs to the whole of mankind.
II he has not in the same degree
as Napoleon tho prestige that
genius lends he has certainly
that which is incomparabIy su-
perior and which emanates from
disintcrestedness, love Of coun-
try and fidelity to principle.
America lives through Wash
ington.-Aitred Joseph Naquet,
French Senator.
The soldiers, jealous Of his
praises, feared even his silence.
Never was q general better serv-
ed and oheyed. Moro careful Of
his country's glory than his
own, he risked nothing to
chance. How love to
imagine myself the French gen.
eraI (Rochambeau), equally idol
ICED and hero Of his army, say
ing as he sat at table near
Washington that he had never
known what glory was nor
truly great man until he became
acquainted with him. Joseph
MandriIIon.
He has ever shown himself
superior to fortune and in tho
most trying adversely has dis
covered until then unknown re-
sources, and, as If his abilities
only increased and diIated at
the prospect Of difficulty, he is
n3ver better supplied than when
he seems destitute of every
thing, nor have his armies ever
been SO fatal to his enemies as
at the very instant when they
have thought they have crushed
him forever.-Abhe Claude c.
Robin.
Washington did the two great
ost things which in politics it is
pcrn1itted man to attempt. He
r. maintained by peace the indie
aendence Of his country, which
no conquered by war. He found
ID a free government in the
1as2s Of the principles Of order
and by re-,estabiishing their
sWay. = He deserved and
IN ioyed both success and repose.
II all great men he was the
most virtuous and most fortu-
'ate. In this world God has no
higher favor TO bestow.-Guizot.
Washington, although born
yiih every superior qauIity,
dds 70 them an imposing mod
sty which will always cause
i'm to be admired by those who
ave the good fortune to see
i'm. AS for esteem, he has al
eady drawn to himself that of
II Europe. Washinqton.
he ATLAS of your country
'hevaier do Silly.
In Washington were united
no rare talents Of q warrior and /
no virtues Of q sage-voItaire.