The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-19

about CornwallIs. "Wc may be beaten
by the English" lac said; III is the chance
never conquer"
The privates are all generals. but not
soi,oiers, the gallant Montgomery, had
cried In his hot impat.encc with the
heady milltlamen he was biddcn to COM
1nand; but IL was not so in tho presence
OF Washington when once these men
mad taken his measure. They were then
rivals in praising him" the Able Robin
declared. fearing him even when he was
silent, and retaining their full confidence
IN MIN after defeats and disgrace" The
singular majesty and poise OF this revo-
lutonary hero struck the French officers
as INFINITELY more remarkable than his
mastery in the field and his ascendency
In council, They had looked to find hin,
great In action, but they had not thought
10 see in him a great gentleman, n man
atter their own Kind in grace and cour-
manner OF courts and drawing rooms by
an incommunicable quality OF grave sin
ccrity which they were at a loss how to
A PERFECT MAN.
No one could tell whether it were a gift
OF the mind or Of the heart II was GER
tain only that II constituted the atInos-
phere and apotheosis OF the man. The
Marquis de Chastelluy noted. with a sort
or reverent awe for this hero not vet
turned to SO. how perfect union reigned
between his physical and moral quail
"one alone" he declared. will enable
you to judge Of all the rest 1t is not
my Intention to eXaggerate," he said:
wish only to express my impression OF
perfect whole. which cannot be the
product Of enthusiasm since the effect
OF proportion is rather to diminish the
Idea OF greatness"
strangers who had noted his appear-
ahce In the earlier years OF the war
mad remarked the spirit and life that sat
IN Washington's eyes; but when the war
was over, and Its strain relaxed they
va
attentive than sparkling" steady still.
and noble In their frankness and good
LneeIins, but touched with a little care,
dlmmed with watching.
me Prince de Broslie found him "still
as Iresh and active as a young man. In
liSZ; but thought ''he must have been
the gentlemen who had remained with
MN during all that time said that he
seemed ft eSa,,9 to have have grown much older
broken under the burden he carried ath-
letic soldier and hardened campaigner
though he was.
PRAISED WASHINGTON.
This is the seventh year that he has
commanded the army and that he has
oDeyed the congress; more need not be
said" the Marquis de ChastelIuE de-
clared. unconsclously utterlnG a very bit
Ter gioe against the. government when
ne meant only TO praise its general
such service told the more heavily unon
,Washlngton v, because he had rendered II
In silence. No man among all the revolu-
lonary leaders, IT Is true. had been more
ana persuasion, reports that carried every
detail OF the army's life and hopes in
thelr careful phrases. orders OF urgency
and Of provldent arrangement writings
OF any and every sort that might keen
the nard war aioot. he had poured forth
incessantly. and es II incapable of fatigue |
or dlscoura cement.
no one who was under orders. no man
who could lend the service n hand or
take turn at counsel, was likely 10
s escape seeing the commander-in chiefs
mind of his tireless power to foresee and
to direct Washington seemed present in
every transaction of the war, And vet
s,, always and 70 every one he seemed a
wrote never touched himself He spoke
seldom OF motives. always OF what was
10 be done and consldered; and even his |
secretaries, though they handled the null |
htude Of his papers. were left oftentimes
10 wonder and speculate about the man
himseli-so frank and vet so reserved.
& SO straighttoIward and simple and vet so
proud and self-contained. revealing pow
ers; but somehow not revealing him |
self.
REMARKABLE CHARACTER.
~ must have seemed at times 10 those |
who followed him and pondered what
lure her own manner while he took his |
breeding as boy and his preparation as |
man amidst tile forests of d wild from |
tier: that his character spoke in what he |
nld and without self consciousness that |
he had no moods but those of action
Nor did men know him for what he |
really was until the war was over. His
own officers then found they had some
thing more to learn of the man they had |
fought under for six years-and those sIx
an or them. years such as lay bare the
characters OF men. What remained TO bn |.
done during the two trying, anxiotIs
years 1852 and 1888 seemed as II Intend
ca ior supreme and final test OF the
qualities of the man whose genius and
sible. poe-
:, Al the end OF a long civil war said
the Marquis de Chastellux with a noble
prloe Tor bis friend, "he had nothing with