The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-02-06

promise, is to accomplish that
which a be done by an honest
zeal"
AS the business required the i'm
mediate attendance of the Presi-
dent at the seat of the Govern
ment, he fastened his departure,
and on the second day after he
received notice of his election, he
took leave of Mount Vernon. In
an entry in his diary, the feelings
inspired by an occasion so affect
ing his mind are thus described:
about ten O'Clock | babe adieu to
Mount Vernon, to private life, and
to domestic felicity; and with a
mind oppressed with more anx-
ious and painful sensations than
l have words to express, set out
for New York in company with
Mr.. Thompson and Col. Humph-
ries, with the dispositions to rem
der service to my country in OBJ
dience to its call, but with less
hope of answering it's expecta-
tons"
On his journey from Alexandria
to New York, Washington was
everywhere received with the
greatest demonstrations of affect
ion by all classes of his fellow cit
liens, which were manifested by
the most flattering marks of heart
felt respect and by addresses that
evinced the unlimited confidence
reposed in his virtues and his abil-
ity.
At Philadelphia he was received
with unusual splendor. In imita-
ton of the triumphal exhibitions
of Ancient Rome, an arch was
eled1ed at the bridge over the
Schuykill river, and on each side
was placed laurel shrubbery. AS
Washington passed under the arch
a civic crown was let down upon
him. The fields and avenues were
crowded with people, through
whom he was conducted into the
city by a body of leading citizens.
At night the town was illuminat-
ed.
The next day, at Trenton, he
was welcomed in a manner as ley
Is it vas pleasing. In addition to
the usual discharge of cannon and
the demonstration of respect and
attachment by military corps, and
by private persons of distinction,
the women of the city arranged a
tribute indicative of gratitude for
their deliverance, twelve yeare be
fore, from a formidable a1emy.
On a bridge over the creek which
passes through the town was 4
triumphal arch, decorated with the
laurel and flowers and supported
by thirteen pillars. On the front of
this arch was inscribed in large
gilt letters, December 26, 1776'.
and beneath, formed in the flow
ers, "The defender of the mothers
will be the protector of the daugh-
AS Washington passed under the
arch he was met by a party Of
natrons leading their daughters,
dressed in white, who carried bas-
kets of flowers in their hands, and
sang an ode composed for the oc-
casion. AT Brunswick, he was
joined by the Governor of New
Jersey, who accompanied him to
Elizabethtown Point. A committee I
IF Congress received him on the
'oad, and conducted him with a
military parade to the Point, here
he embarked for New York in an
t~hirteen-oar barge, prepar-
ID for the purpose by the citizens
If New York, and manned by thir-
cen pilots.
"The display of boats,'' said
Washington in his private journal,
which was attended and joined Oh
his occasion, some with vocal and
ithers with instrumental music on
,oard, the decorations of the
the roar of the cannon, and
he loud vaccinations of the peo-
lie, which rent the sky as | passed
long the wharyes, filled my mind
nth sensations as painful ICON
emplating the evers of this
Gene, which may be the case af-
all my labors to do good as
hey were pleasing"
At the stairs Of Murray's Wharf,
Ihich had been prepared and dec
for thf. DrrrDca he was rp-