The Penn's Grove record., 1923-02-23
LIFE OF WASHINGTON
Continued from page 2


America-and the new roof proposed
by Washington, for a staunch honest
Republic-that equal government"
which, by guarding alike the welfare
Of all, ought by all to be so heartily
beloved as to endure for ever.
Had it been appointed unto any
man to quaff unmingled happiness in
this life, George Washington has been
that man. For where is that p~leasur-
able ingredient with which his cup
was not full and overlooking?
Crowned with hOnours-laden with
riches-blest with health-and in the
joyous prime of 81, sharing each rural
sweet in the society of a charming
woman who doated on him, he surely
bid fair to spend his days and nights
of life in ceaseless pleasure!-But ah!
as sings the sweet bard of Zion,
Our days alas! our mortal days,
Are short and wretched too!
"Evii and fewr' the Patriarch says,
And well the Patriarch knew!
IT'S but at best, a narrow bound,
That Heaven allots to men;
And pains and sin run through the
sounds,
Of three-score years and ten!
From this, the universal lot, not
Washington himself could obtain eX-
emption. For in the midst of his ia
vorite labours, of the plough and prun-
ing-hook covering his extensive farms
with all the varied delights of delici-
Gus fruits and golden grain, of lowing
herds and snowy fiocks, he was sud-
denly called on by his country. to
turn his plough-share into the sword,
and go forth to meet a torrent of
evils which threatened her. The foun-
tain of those evils, whence at length
flowed the great civil war, which for
ever separated Britain and her chill
dren, | proceed now briefly to state.
After the reduction of Canada, the
British officers who commanded on
that expedition, came to Boston and
New York, on a visit to their Ameri-
"a brethren in arms, who had served
with them in that war. Soon as their
arrival was announced, the Americans
flew to meet and welcome them. They
were paraded through the streets as
the saviours of the land-the doors of
all were thrown open to receive them
and every day, during their stay,
"Ao oPCAit III ICooIIIiS anu pJBIIC uill-
ners, which, for sake of their beloved
guests, were made as splendid as pos
Slble, though always through the aid
of obliging neighbours. The rooms
glittered with borrowed plate-wines
of every vintage sparkled on the
crowded side-boards-while the long
extended tables were covered with
finest fish and flesh, succeeded by the
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were equally charmed and astonished
at such elegant hospitality; and, on
their return to England, gave a full
loose to their feelings. They painted
the colonial wealth in the c~olorings of
romance, and spoke of the Americans
as a people, who, in comparison of the
British, lived like kings.
Thus, American hospitality, by a
strange, perversion had like to have
poisoned American Liberty! For,
from that time, the British ministry
began to look upon the Americans
with an evil eye, and to devise ways
n means to make us "bear a part
OF their burdens!' But what did they
mean by this? Did they mean to ac-
knowledge US as Sons of Britons;
equally free and Independent with our
brethren in England? and like them.
allowed a representation in Parlia-
ment, who should freely vote our
money to the common cause?
On no! an idea so truly British and
h~onourable, was not at all in their
thoughts. We are not to be treated
as brothers, but as slaves! over whom
an unconditional right was claimed to
tax and take our property at pleasure!
Reader, if you be a Briton, be a
Br1ton still-preserve the Characters
tic calm and candour of a Briton. |
am not about to say one word against
your nation. No! l know them too
well; and thank God, I can say, after
several years of residence among
them, believe them to be as Honest,
Charitable, and Magnanimous a people
as any on Gods earth. I am about to
speak of the Ministry only, who GER
talnly, at that time were a most am
bilious and intriguing junto, that by
bad means had gotten power, and by
worse, were e~ndeavoring to extend it,
even to the destruction of both Ameri-
can and British Liberty, as the excel
lent Mr.. Pitt charged them.-No Eng
hshman can desire fuller evidence
thar this one Internal claim made
against US by Lord MULTIPLICATION
without representations" As a plea
for such despotic doings, North and
his creatures set out with boldly
trumpeting the wonderful things they
had done for America. "They, it
seems, first discovered the country!-
they settled it-they always had de-
Tended tit was their blood-their
treasure-their ships, and sailors, and
soldiers who created the British col
onies!
o dear-and what then?-why, to
be sure, after having done such mighty
things for the Americans, they had as
clear a right to their gold and silver,
as a butcher has to the hair and hides
of his cattle!
This language was actually carried
into Parliament! where a Mr.. Charles
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