Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1885, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, RUARY 21, 1885-DOUBLE SHEET THE MONUMENT. J. B. Castleman; Louisiana, Col. Charles A. Lar | M. Parker, supported by the Senior and Junior | recall, among the varied features of the long | tion by their own weight and willever | dom,” and which ought to be learned by heart | glory of Columbus by the sire of the little fleet ports endon, Maine, Gen. John M, Brown; Maryiand, | Grand Deacous—Emmeit C. Elmore and Thos. | procession, Freemaons of every, order, with | bean instructive trevor the Wetional strength | Oe the eed et One Choe Ke ie La eae | Se eae ree, heroically upon the Cont “ol. EL. Rogers, Massachusetts, Mr. A. A. | F. Gibbs. : their richest regalia, including the precious | avd grandeur which can only be secured by the | the Twelve Tables in the schools of ancient | perils of a mighty unknown p. There are inued from First Page. Hayes; Michigan, Col. H. M. Duffield; Minne- | _ ‘Among the visiting Masons in line were John | gavel and apron of Washington himself Fire- | unson of “many into om Rome, and never forgotten when those children | some circumstances which eannot occur twice; May 20th. aanaarin Ty | Sots, Col. C. Wo Johnson; Mississippi, Col. JL. | F. Miller, past grand commander of Texas; | men, with their old-fashioned engines; Odd | Had the Fine Aris, indeed, made such ad- | grow up to the privileges ay¢ responsibilities of | some occasions of which there can be be repett- po 4 re eomdoniens impossible to properly | McCaskill; Missouri, Hon, J. W. Stone; Ne- | Frank A. Reed, grand cominander of Virginia; | Fellows from a thousand Lodges; Temperance | vances in our country'forty years ago as we are | manhood. tion; some names which will always assert their fe eg ce, fundation with the funds granted | praska Col. L. W. Colby; Nevada, Hon. John | A. F. Chapman, grand. recorder of Massa’ | Societies, and oto Associations, innumerable;.| now proud to recognize, it is not improbable | It was a custom of the ancient Egyptians, | individual pre-eminence, and will admit of no Career eee uution of June 14th, 1578. A | H Kinkhead; New Hampshire, Gen. J. N. Pat- | chusetts and. Rhode Islan CG. F. Catlin- | the children of the Schools, long ago grown to that a different design might have been adopted; | from whom the tdeaof our Monument has been | rivalry or comparisos the iginal xe ‘bout | terson; New Jersey, Col. 8. Meredith Dickinson; it grand commander of Nebraska; J. K.| mature manhood; the military escort of | but lam by nomeans sure it would have been | borrowed,—I should rather say, evolved,—to | can never be eclipsed, 1 be oniginal project, amounted 32 x ut | New York, Major Alex. H. Davis; North Caro: | Krebbs, past grand commander of Maryland: | regulars, marines, and volunteer militia from | @ more effective and avpropriate one. There j cover their obelisks with hieroglyphical inserip- | our New: = alae glen Se ae. by Pre ge age lina, Mr, Fred Stith; Ohio, Col. G, A. Layton; | C. epartment graud commander of allpartsof the country, commanded by Generals | will always be ample opportunity for the dis- | tions, some of which have to this day perplexed glory of Columbus , never approached, till World shall require a fresh discovers; and the glory of Washington will remain unique O. $64 7 ; Preson, Mr. E. D. Appleton; Pennsylvania, Col. | Maryland; J. L. Beall. grand captain general of | Quitman and Cadwalader and Colonel May, | play of decorative art in our land. The streets | and bamted all efforts to decipherthem.. Neither | and peerless until Ameriean Independence sball ¥ eae ee granted to complete the a PI Goddard; Rhode Island, Col. F. M. Hates; | Virginia; James McCain, eminent commander | then crowned with. laurels won in Mexi and squares of this city and ofall ourgreat cities | Champoliion, nor_the later Lepsius, ny of | require to be again achieved, or the foundations Sitie Pandata be more than sulliclent, | South Carolina, Col. J. A. Simons Tennessee, | of Palestine Commanders, of Trenton, N. | which long ago wore laid upon their eraves. f | ate wide open fen, ues and architectural | the most skilful Egyptologists, have succeeded | of Constitutional Liberty to be laid anew. fs the foundation cost but $94,474. Gen. A.B. Upshur; Texas, Col. J. As compl SOT i A m s E, Labatt; |J.; Joseph Ashton, generalissimo, and | recall, too, the masses of the people, of all | memorials of our di Tate tee BEw foundation covers to | Vermont, Gen, William Wells; Virginia, Major Jt Brack, . captain general of | classes and sexes and ages and colors, gazing | soldiers, and such monuments are everywhere | the legends on Pompey’s Pillar sind Cleopa- | perfection for any mortal man. One Belg only Frese times a6 much ares and extends | 1 Blackford: West Virginia, Col. Robt, White, | Palestine Commandery, of Trenton, N. J; | from the windows, or theonging the sidewaike | welcomed and nese ee et ene Tek | eee ents OB Fompes: inscriptions, at their | has ever walked this earth of ours without sin. irtcen anid a balf feet deeper than the old one. | v4, en. J.C. Starkweather, Arizona, | Sir Knight J. 8. Carr, of Springfield, Mass; Sir | or grouped in countless. thousands upon the | sincerity—is not the acknowledged preemi- | best, engraved as they were, on the granite or | Washington had his infirmities and. bis pas: foot aoe thee teats OF the new wor ts onls two | Hon. J. W. Eddy; Dakota, Col. William Thomp: | Knight FL. Siunkey, of De Molay Commandery | Monuntent grounds. But 1 look around in vain | nence oF the Fatherat bones first without | porphyry, with the letters enamelied with gold, | sions like the rest of us: he would have been e ~ hg egies leve ae Dab bicee tts be Snorer son; Idaho, Major William Hyndman; Mon- | of Moston, Mass; Sir Knight J. E. Farrar, of | forany of the principal witnesses of that impos- | a second, more fitly and adequately represented | and boasted of as illuminating the world with | more, or less, than human had be never been je the water which permeates the earth of Hon. Martin Maginnis; New Mexico, Hon. Haverhill Commandery, Massachusetts, W. E. | ing ceremonial;—the venerable widows of Al-| by that Soaring shaft, rising high above trees | their rays, tell us little except the dates and } OXercome by them. There were soung oftlcer A! Manzanares; Utah, Mr. Humphreys Me | Arnold, eminent comuiander Maryland Com- | exander Hamilton and James Madison; Presi- | and Spires and ‘domes, and all the smoke and | doings of some despotic Pharoah, whom we | around him, in camp a re, not Un: | Master; Washington, Hot. C.'3. Voorhees; Wyo | mandery, No.1, of Baltimore, with fifteen sir | dent, Pole ey aie cate ae eke cnet: | Sting nguished statesmen and | in giving an all er satisfactory reading of | Think not that 1 aim claiming an immaculate » foundation now rests upon a bed : earth,—as he ever Tose above sectional | would willingly have seen drowned in. the | likely to have thrown temptations tu his path, Tee Sea rr ee eee ee | iiaiing, Hitt BE Pak knights; ‘Jonn &. Thomas, G. M., of Tilinois; | tuted —Buchanan, Marey, John Y, Mason, | prejudices, and party politics, and personal it | ocean of oblivion, as one of them so deservedly | whether he ever sleided to them or not. “There Travel. Borings mate been madein this gravel ‘The First Division. Sidney M. Hedges, of Boston Commandery. Walker, Cave Johnson and Clifford; Vice-Presi- | terests—overtopping and dominating all its | was in the depths of the Red Sea. One row of | were treacherous men, too, Whose words in potter con: relghtcen eetwftnout | The first division moved is, the following hice Divisions dent Dallas; George Washington Parke Custis, | surroundings, gleaniing and glistening out at | the inscriptions on Cleopatra's Needle, as it so | council, or cond the adopted s in battle, secret plottings ofthe great Chief; not forget: | every vista as far as human sizht can reach, ar- | Strangely greets usin the fashionable prome- | behind his back, aroused his righteous indign ing through it, and form is the char- | order: The right wing of this division. which was | ting Abana Lincoln and Andrew Johnso restingand riveting the eve atevery turn,whiledt | nade of our commercial capital, informs. us, In gave occasion for memorable bursts Aa reste than rial spon whieh the founda’ | “"Brevet Major Gen, R. B, Ayres, U.S. army, | formed on 17th street, right resting on B, was | both then members of the Houso of Representa: | shoots triumphantiy to ake kioe: Dees note does magniloquent terms, of Thothmes IIL, who DW and then there was a disaster, like tion rests that the settlements of the several | | Brevet pes ary | composed of the Grand Army of the Republig; | tives, and for whom the liveliest imagination | not, repeat. that Coloseal Unit remind ail who | lived in the age in which Moses was born, tie | Yair's expedition against the Indians ete the ee te | Bvt. Brig. Gen. W. W. Dudley, U. S. A., mar | ®Uld hardly have pictured what the future had | gaze at it, more forcibly than any arch or statue | age which saw the exodus of the Israelites,” He | in 1791, the first tidings of which stirred. the other by only the siuallest subdivisions of the | "Staff—Brevet Lieut. Col. Geo. Mitchell, U.S. | Bvt. Brig. Gen. W. W. Oh. ica vat | instore for them, Of that whole Congress there | could do, that there is one namie {i American | is set down as a “Child of the Sun, endowed and betrayed him inte he pressures on the earth beneath the ai . 2 foundation are nowhere greater than the expe- | 4 First Lieut. Sebree Smith, U.S. A. First | riences of years have shown this earth to be | Lieut. Medorem Crawford, U. 8, able t sustain, while the strangth of the | H.R Lemly, U.S. A;Second Lieut. M. C. taff—Lieut. Col. G. C. Kniffin, Lieut, Col- | are now but a handful of survivors, and proba- | history above all other names, one character | with power, life and stability.” Ford, Major E. W. Clark, Capt. J. B. Tan- | bly not more than two or three of them present | more exalted than all other characters, one ex- | tlons style him, or some ot! Other in harcah to whom crip. k of mingled grief and ‘violent were the emo- 1. ; First Lieut. Htich- | ner, Capt. Fred. Mack, Capt. 8. A. Johnson and | here fo-day,—not one tn either branch of Con. | ample to be studied and revereneed beyond all | they relate, thé sChastiser of Purelzn Nations,” | st i 7.8, A. Second v Wi AS gress, nor one, as I believe,in any department | other examples, one bright particular star in | “The Conqueror,” “The Strong Bull! | : Sieeery ta the Joundadon steele by largely 0 | Sra pleut eos See: UB Az Me. Y | MASE T: Gains sor twenty-nine ploces, | o£ tne nationel serv the clear upper'sky of our Armament, whose | Our Washington Needle, while It has all of {flattery ever led hin v. bur by To those of t wk partin the laying of | guiding light and peerless lustre are for all men | the severe simplicity Mied Grates HL MeDonald, Mr. W. J. Johnson, Mr. "Arthu? | jeq by Prof, Schoet p those of us Who took pi y ig p P ‘ : : 3 that first stone, or who witnessed the éeremo- | and for ail ages, never to be lost sight of, never | the massive grandeur, which were the charac- Of this base Is assured against all natural causes | “‘\ battalion of the 24 U. 8. artillery, com-| 4 (ign, Vctaran corps (first company) Capt. M. | nies af the august occasion, and Who have fol- tobe unheeded? Ur that name, of that charac. | teristics of Eesptinn architecture, bears n except earthyuakes or the washing out of the | manded by Lieut, Col. Loomis L, Landon, Cap- | flue onereoate, fatieue oop, lowed the slow ‘ascent of the stupendous pile, | ter, of that example, of that glorious guiding | scriptions whatever, and none are likely aa hcd besa nec tae tins Rameay and Howell, and Lieuts, Giffora, | Pte overcoats, fatigue cap. sometimes with hope and sometimes with de | light, our Obelisk, standing on the very spot | tobe carved on it. Around its base basredess ud bed beneath the foundation. pnkling and Curté {Nor york Gee oT i spair, its successful completion fs, I need notsay, | selected by Washington himself for a monu- | in bronze may possibly one day be placed, giiaving enlarged the foundation, the work baitalion of U. 8. artillery from Fortress | f New York, Gen. M. T. Bethe | 2 unspeakable relief, as well as ‘a heart-felt de- | ment to the American Revolution, and on the | lustgative of some of the great events of Wash- mn the shait was speedily commenced. ic : . and ‘far more than all of than distrasth Lot his ow enty-Ave vears Governor Dinwiddie: "Phat many of them, 1 em myself, as the arrogate Grand Arm: agate accepting the com- 2 ; ae . t and joy, Thazard little in saying that | site which marks our National meridian, will | ington’s life; while on the terrace beneath may, | mand of thi ay of the Revolution, in 1775 summer of 1330 was mostly taken up in build- | Monree, Va. SE pingeioe aaa Bere pocemnene of tig oto Read Are sCe hare tolee UW enren weNLETE be a unique memorial and symbol forever. Rethaps, bs arranged emblematic ticures ‘of | be said t ss: “I beg it may be remem- ing an iron frame witbin the shaft, preparing | 7 rimes, Adams, Oyster, Evarts, Massey, | Books commander, John Cameron assistant the cause, like my friends Horatlo King] For oh, my triends, let us he ur the hoisting machinery, and collecting the ranite and marble needed in the construction. he first marble block was set in the shaft on | Gti he the 7th of Augus: lowed h stice and Patriotism, of Peace, Libe wpe Unton. All this, however, may we future years, or even for future gew has not been reared for | Each succeeding generation, indeed, will take and | bered by adjutant gene for | this lows: John A. commander. Kit Cars he fol- nin the room, that J the utmost sincerity, dc imal to the command fam and Dr, Toner,—to name no others,—to whose | even seem to for parting hour & special pang would haye been | memorate, not the Monument, but hdded, had they died without the sight which | That stupendous pi Hunter, Barney, Stone, Blunt, Cron! pand Lemley. M ‘ Sain . 2. Ma 7, when Informed 1880, and the last stone was | pLight Battery A, 2d U. 8, artillery, Cap! Hopkins, commander. Tincol Vast No. 3.1. | now greets their longing eyes on youder plain, vain purpose of challenging its own pride in doing whatever m: «against him had Fee ee eee ego, ihe Oth of August, | Battalion U.S, marine corps, under commana | L Smith, commander. 0. P. Morton Post, 2 L dare not venture on any detailed description, | itself, It is not, need not say ti done in adorning the surroundings of this ma- i . then President of Con. ee Shas copemeting Dur eeeeons sn Anteing | of capt John Higbee, witht Lieuts, Harring- ee nin of the long intervening agony between the lay- | specimen of advanced art, for it makes no pre- | Jestic pile, and in thus testifying its own home| gress, he wr je shaft. The top-most. ston ° pyre Ligbee, 3 No. 5, : ly to beg that the paper be submitted to the body a set. adding these frank and mi ne ex: ing of the first stone and the lifting of the last. | teusion to that;—it {s not as asignal illustration | age to the memory of the Father of bis Midion was <et on the 6th of December, 1584, | 1D; Porter, Russell, Turner and Gilman. John F. Reynolds Pos It would fill a volume, and will be sure here- | of engineering’ skill and science, though that | Let to the mind’s eve ofan Americat : The Ancient and Honorable Artillery com- Garfield Post, N thus esserftially completing theobelisk. “Minor e commander, James A.’ Garfield Post, No after tofurnish material for an elaoorate mono- | may coniidently be claimed for it:—itis not, | those marble faces will never seem erior of the shaft are be | Second’ Lieut. -G. H.Gi : El ecoce SAE AOI connie Parra, | Hons in stones,”—for almost every stone hz e worl for we dO not measure th at and some, filing, erading, and planting are | 5 Set Lege SPs neat preeea te No. S.Gegree M. Arnold, commander. Farra- | its siory, if not its sermon, Every vear of the | greatness of men by the helzht of their mont | on thenn NW might at ‘aunce, efigures cal signs will, indeed, be de-cried such Vainglorious words as - en subject to it. My y % ss ; first dé rtainly, had its ntful and | ments, and we know that this distinction may | que ‘Chastiser of Foreign Nations, my unremitted aim owed thai can change the existing appearance | U7 2800 root Guard of Hartford Connectt- | ils Defattinent world bave had out 1,006 | Note woriht overtones the early emihuisiaem | be de here or elsewhere, In future | any sich haughty assumption or. heattien st which ‘circumstances, would por cited contributions, to the amount of a Memorial of the pre-emt- | aseription as “Child of the Sun,” will be de- An a quarter of a million of dollars, | hent figure in modern or in ancient history, the | clphered on them. Butever and anon, as he » been very en the means, and may, in es, deserve the imputation of er- contemplating om the Presidency, and, in DK 5 which e 1 masonry constructed by the government cat, 101 men, Maj. John C. Kinney, Capt. J.C. as it was there were som D0 inen in the line, more ¢ Js the best known to the engineering art, and | P74, Lieuts. T. C. Naedele, J. Robert Dwyer Belng tn the uniform of the Grand Army, and | from men, women, and ebildren in. all parts of | World over,—of the man whohas leit the loftiest | gazes, there will come flushing forth In ietters | tan the yoshi is so distributed that, subjected’ to @ | “The German Fusiliers of Charleston, 8.., 80 | CouTying flags isla the land, and w rarried up the shaft more | example of pu nes, and / Of living ght some of the great words, and | for.” And w Meroe on Sa ae ee men, Capt. Henry Schachte, First Lieut. Henry | ““Dejegation of the Boston Llzht Guard, who ndred and fifty-six feet almost at a | whose exalte the admirar | grand precepts, and noble lessons of principle | a Anal retiremen “ a lent ntation and formal reception | tion and the homage of mankind:—it is this | and duty, which are the matchless bequest. of | one of the 1 his Farewell Address, iad wind velocity of oue hundred and forty-five BE Weed Lices Ge aie te hicnmond ee oe ee a eee ‘sofm granite, porphyry, | example, and this character,—it is the Man, and | Washington to his country and to mankind. — | written that he withdrew “with a pure heart Flags ctor or taete secre cae woudl have & | vax, onanived tn 1705, Gant Sol. Cutehing. "|S Movin een y We Wie om every Stole in the Union and | not tue Monument,—that we are here to ‘com- pecan, me nok ail rend there already, as i'graven | and undet has” oF words to fhnt eflet oe eet aera he ne a ENS | Wanhineto . R. Danforth and J. eere y foreign’ nations—beginning, ac- | memorate! y some invisible finger, or Inscribed with some | he supp) an her similas Puarble is of the satue iind as that in the mono- | ¢lee ay columbian Lieuh Col, Willigns Ge Moose Bepeiceition ae taaependenca 3 vith a stone irom | “Assembled in these Lezislative Halls of the | sympathetic Ink,—which it requires no learn: | €xpressl suggested, he should Pibic columns of the Capitol has a fine grain, | commanding: Captains Dalton, Entwisle, Ross, | pooCzston, of Independent Order of Bunker Hil with one trom the | Natlon, as near to the Anniversary of his birth holars, no lore of Kzypt, nothing but | seem toelaiin for himsell a imeastine of peries is close and compact in texture, free from disin- | Sg Miller, Lieuts. Sloan, Cash and Duify, 126 awit Bula tenes We Shoemaker, chier | /mperor z annual assemblies at | asa due ettor the D: our Lord will | love of our owh W out and make | Hon which ail the world now unites in accord. fegraring impurities, and in this climate will | ten, with the corps ban Pee eee eae fits t rth of July,with | allow, tos ize the lon: 3 mmnplishe | legible —those mas words of Is Letter to | Ing to, him.” For T hazard little tn wscrting endure for ag roa ants - ine ‘ he sudden | ment’of so itis upon him in whose | the Governors of in :— ‘all the world does now accord to 3 There is not time, nor Is this the occasfon, to | ,,\° Sinetron Continentals, District of Colum icin anid Macnnereionsanennled by ac ke te t sterling upreared, and upon the in- here are four things which, 't humbly eon- | ton a tribute, which has the indorsement of the Seine: te aT tne comes (tie! GOR: | Second Hicat: Ws G: Moses, Tiga: W. i Clapg | mena ns aeguncreucn marehaled Dy A. H- be comparable and inestimable services he has | ceive, are essential to the well-belng—In jopwdia Britannica, that, “of all men that un, to discuss a! rains and stresses y 19 s! or ie with a drum corps. ing in 1550,when | rendered to his countr: and to the world, that} even venture to say, to the existence—of the | have ever liv Veral parts of the work, or the factors 1ator Foote of Missis- | our thoughts should’ be concentrated at this | United States as an independent Power: as ae vision at the caitet destructive forces, It ke eum | Emmet Guard, District of Columbia, 25 men, | ff be was "the gn est of good orner-stone, Their ‘ f netabered 5 s in Li headed b ‘irst, | arsine the best Ns great im Es in - me ” x ey a - had indulged in too exhuberant . ¥ tean any man n indissoluble Union of the States under one | borrow the same idea trom a great English poet, Plent tony, that although the dimensions of WW. H. Murphy, Lieuts. J. H. Kelley and Serine mermen ponacetsters! A seuciation, nese) were among ie beginain of ss not already heen | Federal head: Second, a sacred regard to Public | who gave his Young Tue aud ‘brilliant genius t6 e foundation base were originally planned a 2 g, chief marshal, 2 . Rot hole ge: tion dista rendered as familiar as household words, Third, the adoption of a proper cause of Liberty im modern Greece, pithoud due tegant tke teenies shington Rifle Corps, of the District of Co- | Yelland Jas, Kelly, aesieiant) have y whole generation distar iliar a ds, not r roy er on came the Lo hen—partly ow assments of the times, y political conte bse Who hear me, but to all readers | Establishment; and Fourth, the prey alence of of histo prs of Liberty throughout | that pacific and friendly disposition amoug the the world? How could [ ho} nything | People of the United States which will induce of the | from a field tonz them to forget their local pre) sand poli- dissen- | reap cies, to make those mutual concessions whieh : Jumbia, 30 men, Capt. Geo. F. Hammar in com- ead ead i brought into play in building so large an obe- " over one hundred ‘members in line Eeetetesmrccs cberaaaes engineering science | Mand, Lieuts. Dunn and Javins, with a drum | Charles Sword and John Lyon, who have supplied means for the completion of the | elected by the association to sent the mar- grandest monumental column ever erected in ble and granite cutt. organizations on the | Country, and DY age of the world, floor of the House, were in line with their tick- } ‘ashington Cadet Corps, of the District of umbia, with National Band, commanded by Marshall to unbapy or “leetwood, Ci : sions ih the A tion itself further con- | Sperl ot and Edward I are requisite to the general prosperity, and, in Xn its proportions the ratios of the dimensions | "U0" Cjaanders oom CPt 4-H: Brown, Lieut. | ets of admission signed by John Sherman. | t-ipations falled. to be forthcoming, all interest | Washin as well as_by our eminent | some Instances, lo saeritice thelr fndisidued ade of the several parts of the ancient Egyptian At ine e aards, of the District of Colum. | AMOnE the members of this body was in the Mo smed to fla all work on it Was suspen ndoned. and die away, | living historian, the venerable George Banc it | happil on | Othe’ obelisk have been carefuliy followed. The entire height has been made slightly ter than ten time: vantages to the inte These are the Pil ny others, whom I dare not at-| fabric of our Inde: nmanded by Capt. Thos, 5. Kelly, Lieut, | Bivins one of the orl ‘ampbell. t of the Community, n which the glorious al sionecutters nt, in 1848, when the ington, Land 7 © was but One!” deplorable Civil W: here with us to-day? ployed’on the monum oe and National Char | To what other name have such tributes ever e breadth of base, pro- | 74h 5 -| Corner stone was inid, ee and all efforts to renew popular inter- | tempt to name or number, have vied with each | acter must be supports b sa by et on, abt jucing an obelisk that, for grace and delicacy manded by Lieut, 5 Or Mascon tie oon tee cae CoO ae: | eet in tee pletion wore palsie ia | other in describing a career, of whose minutest {again on another of those bs sateen tes Bee riane y not excelled by any of the larger | vans and W.C. Keech, preceded by the 5th | futtimorg, May tho han helaw chant doesnot | How shall depict the sorry spectacle which | details no American is ever weary, and Wh vacant sides, that faruiliar passage in | language of Lc in his inscription of Ferran jpmcnoliths. while in dignity and | ‘arviand regiment band.” ‘The National Rifles | Battmord Md, the ine veing abo na preceded first one | hundred aid fifty-six feet, | variety and Interest can never be exbausted. Address jewel of thought and | one of his produc Washington himselt: ial ai en- | 3 sh yy Thomas ay, and preceded | fi Tharceemiualy hope relpless condition? ‘age and step of that career, every seene -d,but never matched, re the r whor - loned. Gacets, commanded by Lieut Domer, was in | by Winchester (Va.) brass band, with 19 pieces, | 1 thelr seemingly hoped iI standing as in | of thatgreat and glorious life, from’ the hour of n, which belongs 1 oly eg = " appearance,’ TI! | gommlecion for the comple ion ef the Waching: | pie Lawrence Light Guards, Co. Biot Medford | fions had ahandconie tanner, on which were | M0°KeTS, ton Monument, I deliver to you this column. — | Coieman and H. M-Simith. ire heat pee District, which | quarter of President Arthur was then introduced by | “The Detroit Hight Intantre.of Michigan; Capt. | closed the 3d division, was all ont in full dress rs Benator Sherman. It had been the custom for | Chas. Dupont, Lieut. Geo. W. Corns, 2d ‘Lieut. parade, with their engines and truck com: the speakers to keep on their hats, but Presi- | HB. Lothrop. anies, headed by Chief Engineer Ma dent Arthur laid his silk hat at, his side; slowly ‘The Alexandria Light Infantry, 60 men; Capt. Qroninl ard tis ascisiaute and ieee wie Temoved his he: dogekcin gloves and depo< | Geo. A. Mushback, Lieuts. Sainuel L. Monrce | some display. Two of the core his inside pocket he drew | and Albert Bryan. compelled to leave the line at th i the paper In his left | | Washington High School Cadets, of the Dist-| nent to attend s fire. in South ses in place with his | rict of Columbia; Major Frederic! hon, Capts. | hut they afterwards rejoined Fight hand, while he read in aclear and distinct | §. S. Williamson, W-S. Teel, . Brown, | White Lot, south ot the President's Voice the toliowing addres S. Armstrong, preceded by the Charles Co. S ‘The President's Dedicatory Speech. | band, Md. sy t forgotten the birth, one hundred and fifty-three y ou in your National ¢ must always : Charle vin the House of bout ten in the morning of ve 11th day | exalt the just pride mM more than ns: “ Miustri an, before whol v, 1731-2," as recorded In his | any appellation derived from local discrimina icseen ‘sunike eke Rioiee eet mother’s Bible—in that primitive Virginia | tons"? and, not far below it, his memorable | not forgotten the language of Lord farmhouse in the county of Westmoreland, of ning against Party Spirit,“A fire not to be | Brougham, th prod. mi Long ineerwete tek which the remains of the “great brick chimfey | quenched, it demands a uniform Vigilance. to | with'a putboss as Bronshans hineelne y of tue kitchen” have been identified only | prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead | me. totten enforee thoseempha' within a few years past,—every scene, [say, of | Of warning, it should consume"? Until timestall | that grand and glorious Hie, ver | SUll again, terser legends from the same pro- Heino wr apg y|memorable hour of his nativity, has been | lifie source Salute our eager gaze: “Cherish apetny n and Vireue be de. traced and illustrated by the ‘niost- accom: | Public Credit ;’—“Obserye good faith and jus: mis thie Wenseeiathonn PALA Bo toes eee ished and brilliant pens and tongues of our j eultivate peace aud Washington!” and. :—“Promote, as an object o rein T fail to Weleome the erown ; His childhood under the loving charge of that | primary importance, institutions for the gene- | ute, perhaps, frum. « another task emit si . . tined—as, God be thanked, it still was— | venerated mother, who delighted to say that | ral diffusion of Knowledge. In proportion as t the last moment of rev! Fellow Countrymen: Before the dawn of the Goleta Gane bee anne DEED alee tha procdsiton was Aieiieea, Repre- | to growth, and’ grandeuf, and ‘imperishable | “George had alway's been a good son,” who hap- | the structure of a Government gives force to ared for this eek century whose eventful years will soon have | “St Jon's Academy Cadet corps, of Alexand-| sentatives, Senators, members of the Suprema | lof, Dut doomed. to premature decay, to dis | pliy lived not only to see hiss fostered to | publlcopinion tt essential that public opti | pub m Gladstone, her’ great faded into the past, when death had but lately | ria, Va; Major WL, Pleree, Court, the diplomatic corps and invited guests | Cds sini, and ultimate di-unton. Tis very | lie after the exposuresand periisof the Kevin: | Low should de énlightened.” 0" SPN | foe sien eter sarieb, te aah : ; d is ulated to discourmge man y struggieybut to see him, in her eighty-| Aud, above all,—a tousand-fol reci- robbed this republic of its most beloved and ‘The Second Dtviston. assembled in the Hallof Represen’ ‘ tf i Ye e re ry upon their summit, presented comer to the Capital for nearly Xo wonder the un- the subject of pi n. No wonder there were perio about the security of its found tion, and a chronic ‘condemaation the ‘original design, No wonder that su tions for tearing it all down began to b din many minds, and were adve many pens and tongues. ‘Th with'its untidy sur n insult to the memocy of Washington. THE CEREMONIES AT THE CAPITOR, | symboilzed nothing but an ungrateful countr hi nies w pmmMenc shington, near the will a te ished M capa : tives,where uhings, ag well as trom it 3 y elected to be the | ous than a¥ the fest,—there wil come stream- poset geaay ye eee ets A The second division formed at the monument, | the proceedings were continued. Prayer was ination Of desolation standing a re of the country of which he | ing down from time to,time, t y at | e pledged the faith o1 ation in this x zs De ‘< V7 IE e nt not. All that followed of con- een the Saviour in War; his’ primary eda- | and longing eye, from the very point: where i Shy, bearing Ms bouceed nats, asd then, sa Te eee ee Mee Ena OnE eee ‘ontention in our country’s history | cation in that “ol-tield schoolhouse,” with | tiny alumintam apex Teaches nearest to, the cher than ail tas vest aoa al now, the seat of the general government, a| Comtiond I, Surith, Me Henry Drnceela, | Hon. Robe Cr wvini hte oe te ay reshadowed ‘and prefiured in that | Hobby, the sexton of the parish, for his Hirst and shining forth witha radiance which a moment's notice, to Dame and “one could almost of blood, “Divided! y and romantic adventures as a jon of Constantine, Monument should be erected “tocommemor- | Mr. Bernard P. Green, Dr. Arthur Snowden, | Was then read by Hon. Jolin D. Long, of Mas: | bumi Spe Bis: nasrow exeane! tod belne 6 leslonk could ever Haveee no Labarum for his ate the great events of his military and politi | Col. Frederick A. Windsor, Major S. A. Robert: | sachusetts. Lid tee At for it, [think my ¢holee, et ed,—some of those | ny time during the last forty-five years, would in lette: and-survi hed in the bakince! Found wanting!” midshipman in the British Navy, at fourteen anly reiterated declarations and counsels, | Nave lighted, and it would now light, upot eats son, Mz, Barbour Thompson, Mr. Eppa Hunton, oration, ; ‘And well might that erude and undigested | vears of axe, for which a warrant been ob- h might almost be called the Zonfession — ae The stately column that stretches heavenwara | 7.1" W.L. pales G. Beckham. President Arthur, Senators and Representatives | mass have stood so forever, or until the hand of | tained and Mis luggage actually put on board a | and Creed of Washington, and which can never y one would get. a full im: on of from the plain whereon we stand, bears witness ‘his division was headed by the carriages for of the United States: min or the operation of the elements’ should | man-of-war anchored in the river just. below | be forgotten by any Christian Patriot:— tion and veneration in which Wash- to ail who behold it, that the covenant which | t€ Senators and members of Congressand} By a joint Resolution of Congress, you have | have crushed and crumbled it into dust, ifour | Moant. Vernon; his still narrower and hate | “When 1 contemplate the interposition of Our fathers made, thélr children have fulniled. | OuiGreg°, tae ule Procession Specially distin- | called upon me to address you in this Hall to- | Union had then perished. “An unfinished, frag. | breadth e In the completion of this great work of patri- yates Lens day, on the completion of yonder colossal mon- | ™&?" one ae parent oy sebing ion | erenuh roel ene iat OE ope erento hepa ee the Washington Satie absatte the Father of his Country, Nothing | Would ba flees att Sine nor give ane ae quaare. te shell be ie ‘all mankind a steadfast | Monument eos, members and ex-members | jess imperative than your cull could have | not have had it finished. He would have de- | tozeth r with that most remarkable prediction | of America toward one another alter its adop- | eged’ to correspond with him, or whoever so token Of the affectionate and reverent regard | ?f,the Joint comission; third, Col. Casey and | brought me before you for such an effort, | sired no tibute, however imposing, from either | of the Virginia pastor, Samucl Davies,atterward | tlon, I feel mvself oppressed and almost over- | casually found occasion to allude to his career in which this people continue to hold the mem- | Bis assistants and a detail of workmen: fourth, | oust me before sun ys have passed | baltof a disunited Republic, He would have | President of Princeton College, pointing him | whelmed with a sense of Divine munificence. I | and cha ‘And let him by no means fore ory of Washington. Well may he ever keep the | ‘he President and cabinet; fifth, the judi-| Nearly BEY exOED turned with abhorrence from being thought the in a sermon, in 1755, on his return, at the | feel that noth! ng Is due tomy personal agency | get,as he reads them, that those letters were Flcmast placin tia hearts cl we commen | 22 sixth, the diplomatic ’ eorps—the | away since it was my privilege to perfor ‘ather of anything less than One Country, with t the disastrons fleld of | in all those wonderful and complicated events, | Written a hundred years ago, when language ‘The faith that never faltered, the wisdoin that | SW!8S Minister, Col. Frey and his first | similar service at the laying of the corne one Constitution and-one Destiny. the Monongahela- that heroic youth, Col- | except what can be attributed to an honest zeal | was more measured, If not more elneere than was broader and deeper than any learning | Secretary, Major Kloss; oe Chinese minister } or that monument, In the prime of manhood, | , And how cheering whd how inspiring the re- | onel Washington, whom I cannot but ‘hope | for the good of my country.”—“No people can | now, and before the indiscriminate use of the taugit in schools, the courage that shrank from | 480 three secretaries; the Mexican an | i ane en ee Tlelet chatlons fear cet | acetion, how grand and glorious the tact, that | Providence has p ved in so signitl a manner | be bound to acknowledge and adore an Invist- | superlative, and the exaggerations apd aduloe ho veril and was dismayed by ho defeat the | ister, alone: the Colombian minister and the p < to assembled. thou. | 22,.00ner Were our unhappy contentions’ at an | frsome lmportantseryice to his country;”—who | ble Hapd which conducts the aftairs of men, | tions of flaiterers and parasites, sending loyaity that keptail selfish purpose subordinate | “unlis, the Hawallan minister, Mr. Carter, wire | dilcult’ for me to speak to assembled thou- | Und.n were Union and Liberty, one | has forgotten, who can’ ever forget, these most | more than the people of the United States. | and small alike down wo posterity as patterns {© the demands of patriotism and honor, the | 224 Gaughter; the Russian ‘minister and his | gands, in the open air, without notes, under the | and'in rable, once more and, as we trust | impressive incidents of that opening career by | Every step by which they have advanced to | of every virtue under Heaven, had tended to sagacity that displayed itself in camp and eabi- | 278t Secretary, Mr. Gregor, the Spanish minis-| socrching rays ofa midsummer gun, But what | and believe, forever reasserted and reassured, | which he was indeed so providentially pre- | ‘the character of an Independent Nation seems | render such tributes as suspicious as they often net alike, and above all that harmonious union | (22 80d nephew, the Japanese minister and two | ea eet ine then is linpossible for me now, | Man this monument to Washington gave signs | served, prepared and trained up for the event. | to have been disti guished by some token of | arc worthless. of moral and intellectual qualities whiten has | Secretaries, and'the French minister and chan- sta : vay | Oftresh Iie, began to attract new interest and | ful and Illustrious future which awalted him? | Providential Agency.’ —“Of all the dispositions | “What, for instance, said lainepeaking old never found its puraliel among men: these are cellor; and 7th, the ee states, Mem- | I am here to-day, as I need not tell you, in far nd soon was seen rising again slow- | | Still less can any American forget his taking | and habits which lead to political prosperity, | Benjamin Franklin? '“My fine cral walk- the attributes of character which the intelligent | Le? 2nd Senator and other distinguished other condition for the service you have ily toward the skies—stone alter | his seat, soon afterward, in the Virginia House | Religion and Morality are indispensable sup- | ing stick, with u gold head curiously wrought thought of this century ascribes to the grandest | Plc; the District Commissioners, officers of the | assigned me,—changed, changed in altuost upon course, piled up in peace, | of Burgesses,—with the striking tribute to his ports. In vain would that man claim the tri- | inthe form of the cap of Liberty,”—these are re of the last. = army and neve ane the Society of the Cincin- | everything, except an inextingulshable love for | with foundations extended to the full deman modesty which he won trom the Speaker,—and | bute of patriotsm, who should labor to subvert | the words of his Will, In 1789," give to my jut other and more eloquent lips than mine | B&tl., Nearly all the members of Congress and | my Country ana its Union, and an undying rmous welght to be placed upon ther, | his subsequent election to the Continental Con- | these great pillars of human happiness, these | friend and the friend of mankind, will to-day rehearse to you the story of his noble | SeD8tors were present. Amongithe state govern- | reverence for the memory of Washington. On | wntil we can now hail tas complete! Hence- | gress at_ Philadelphia, where on the 15th of | firmest props of the duties of men and ofciti-| Washington. If it were a sceptre,’ he life and ite glorious ‘achievements. a peeene were Gov. Stockley, Delaware; Gov. | these alone I rest for inspiration, assured that, | forth and foreverit shall be lovingly associated, | June, 1775, at the suggestion of John Adama! tr "i te ington was held by his contemporaries, let him. pes from Indian arrows and from | Providence, as it was visibly manitest in guid-| turn, almost at random, to the letters which lets, and his survival —the only | ing us through the Revolution, 1n preparing us| were addressed to him, or which were written oiler not killed—at the defeat of | for the reception of the General Government, | about him, by the eminent men, milttary oe dock, of whom he was an alde-de-camp; | and in coneiliating the good-will of the people | civil, American or European, who were prelle zens.” merited it, and would become tt.” 7 of Massachusetts; Gov. Alger, of | with your induigence, aud the blessing of God | not only with mory of hiin in whose | andon_ the motion of Thomas Johnson, after | And thus on all those seemingly blank and} “Happy, happy America,” wrote Gov! anes Tees Gat a TUN ee orate Tne | Michigan; Gov. Harrison; of Uonnections, and | whieh 1 devoutle tacoke thee it eee | eee aly, with the memory of him in whose | and on. the motlor Maryland, he was anank | empty sides will be seen, from tine to time, iu | Morrig hom Pacis in 1508, when see now, as President of the United States and in | @0¥- Bowen. fo sustain me In serving as a medium for keep- | sured peace, unity, avd concord, which would | mously appointed “General and Commander. | hisown unequalled language, the grand pre- | Revolution was making such terrific behalf of the people, recelve this monument THE MASONIO DISPLAY. ing up the continuity between the hearts and | ha arer {o his heart than the costliest | in-Chief of such Forces as are, or shall be, raised | cepts and principles of Peace, Justice, Educat- happy, happy America, governed by from the hands af its builder. and declare it | The Masonic column, which came next, was | hands which laid the ioundation ‘gigantic al which the toil and treasure | for the maintenance and preservation of Amer- | fon, Morallt D ity, aud Religion, which he strove to | by law, by the man whom’ she loves, whom #hé ‘ymen could have constructed, The | ican Liberty.” Nor can any of us require to be | inculcate, while, encircling and illuminating | almost'adores? It t= the pride of my life to con- n is itselfthe ail-suflicient and the only su | reminded of the heroie fortitude, the unswerv- | them all, and enveloping the whole monument, | sider that man as my. friend, and I hope jong Atistor this. i nt monument to Washington. ‘The Union | Ing constancy and the unspating seledevotion, | from corher-stone to capstone, will beread with to_be Lonored with that title,” = me. It is for aloue I have obeyed your arest and dearest to his great heart, | with which he conducte hrough seven or | rapture by every patriot Cs Jognte ade “I have always admired,” wrote to him Cou gnd his remarks were received with great favor: | 7. G. Loockerman, Chas, H. Smith and. A. | cali. ESS minany event,” were the most em | eight years, that protracted contest, with all its | by every patrloule heart, “The Union, the Umion | Hetatag. teas Bee Tote fe him Count Hinge to thelr feet hate eee heed e 2k | Johnston. ‘The line was headed by the Fréde-| Meantime, I cannot wholly forget that the | phatic words of lives immortal Farewell Address, | tolls and trials, Its, ¥ v in any event!” for thirty years over the ‘Ministry of Foreign eee ee eer rei as ae rick City band, with twenty handsomely uni-| venerable ex-President, John Quincy Adais,— | N. vss than the Union would ever have | from the successful Siege of Boston, his firs But what are all the noble words which | Affairs, under Frederick the Great,—“I have eee te and eee ae ene ane = the | formed members, under the leadership of C. S. | at whose death-bed, in ‘my official chamber be- ‘pied or recognized by him as a monu- | great triumph, followed by those masterly | Washington wrote or uttered, what are all the | always admired your great virtues and quale = vOtliced Conia teaas Sa ty tk . Seahe | MeKallip. neath this root, I was a privile; ment commensurate with his services and his | movements on the Delaware which no less cele- | incidents of bis birth and death, what are all | :ties, your disinterested patriotism, your un+ ee baton S iid 7 ‘attent! anced ne The order of the procession was as follows:—| ty-seven years ago this very tame. Nothing less ought ever to be accepted | brated a soldier than Frederick the Great de- | the details of his marvelous career from its | shaken conrage and simplicity of manners, gu Mention soShochos be ae ie minions eee Washington Commandery No, 1, K. T.; A. M. | originally designated to pronounce the Corner- | or recognized as such Es us, or by those who | clared “the most brilliant achievements of any | commencement to its close, ineomparison with | qualifications by which you surpass men even Cy oat Laogy ln Mealy I ite a ‘i Tubman, generalissimo, actg. em. commander; | stove Uration, us one who had received his first | shall rise up, generation after generation, to do | recorded in the annalsof military action,"—and | hisown exalted character'as a Man! Rarely e most celebrated of antiquity.’ ated Seenes hureny Normed. o 884 | W. H. Orcutt, captain general; Dan’l McFarlan, | commission, {n the long and brilliaut earcer at | homage to his memory! so alonz,—through all the suecesses and re-| was Webster more impressive than when, on | +I am sorry,” wrote Patrick Henry, then Gove procession was promptly form prelate; W. G: Henderson, senlor warden; J. H. | home and abroad which awaited him, trom the | For the grand consummation which we cele- | verses aid sufferings and trials of Monmouth | the completion of the monument’ at | ernor of Virginia, in allusion to the THE PROCESSION. Olcott, junior warden; H. H. Hazard, recorder; | hands of Washington himself. In that envia-| brate to-day, we are indebted primarily to the | and Brandywine and Germantown and Valley | Bunker il, in describing what our | of one of the notorious faction of 1777,—“"] am. At the close of the exercise at the monument | 4 W. Cromwell, standard bearer; O. 5. Firmin, | bie distinction I certainly have no share; but I] National’ Government, under the successive | Forge,—to the siege of Yorktown, in 178i,| Country had _ aecomplishe: for the | eorry there should be one man who counts Py " aa fi h sword bearer, J. H. Brogh, warder; W. §. | may be pardoned for remembering that, {n call- | Presidents of the past nine years, with the con- | Where, with the aid of our gener and gallant | welfare of mankind, he gave utterance with nis | sels my friend, who is not yours.” @ procession mov from the monument | Jenks, M. Hebner, H.K. Sinpson, guards; W.E. ing upon me to supply the place of Mr, Adams, | current action of the two branches of Congress, | allies, under the lead of Rochambeau and De | characteristic terseness, and {n his inimitable | Thomas Jctferson,who, we all know, ‘sometimes Grounds in the order indicated below. As the | Cox, sentinel. it was borne in mind that [had but lately taken | prompted by Committees so often under the | Grasse and Lafayette, he won atlast thatcrown- | tones. to the simple assertion, “America has | €iffered from him, took’ pains, ata later period Procession moved salutes of one hundred guns uere were about 70 members in line. Wash- | the oath as Speaker at his hands and trom his | lead of the veteran Senator Morrill of Vermont. ane victory on the soll of his beloved Virginia, | furnished to the World the Character of Wash- | of his life, to say of 1 im ina record for post 3 were fired from the navy yard, the artillery | nston Commandery was the only Templar or- Pebene Lbat thus,as was suggested at the time, | The wise decision and emphatic resolution of} Nor need I recall to you the still nobler | ington!” And well did he add that, “if our | “His ‘ntegrity was most pure; his justice the Garticks and Sect 14 he ‘The | ¥Anization present at the ceremonies of laying | the electric chain, though lengthened by a sin- | Congress, on the 2d of August, 1876,—Inspired | triumphs witnessed during all this period,— | American Institutions had done nothing else, | most inflexible L have ever knows: ne math and Fort Myer, across the river. The | the corner-stone in 1848, fle link, was still unbroken. Lot me hope that by the Céntenniai Celebration of American In- | triumphs in which no one but hehad any shate, | that alone would have entitled them to the re’ | of Interest or consanguluity, of friendship oF route to the Capitol was by way of 17th street | Columbia Commandery, No. 2.—Officers—Jas. | the magnetism of that chain may not even yet | dependence, and adopted,as it auspiciously hap- | —triumphs over himself: not merely in his | spect of Mankind.’ hatred, being able to blas his decision. He was, to Pennsylvania avenue, thence along the Ave- | F. Allen, em. commander; E. H. Chamberlin, | be entirely exhausted, and that I may still| pened, on the hundredth anniversary of the | magnanimous apprectation of the papi of |* The character of Washington! Who can de-| indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, nue to the Capitol, where it was reviewed by the | §¢nerallssimo; Robt. Ball, captain general; Geo. | catch something of its Vivitying and quicken- | formal signing of the great Declaration,—that | his subordinates, even when unjustly and | lineate it worthily? Who can describe that | good. und a creat man.” tc macs Geecinali = Sidson, treasurer; Wim. Pitts, recorder, ing power, while Tattempt to bring tothe mem-| the monument should no longer be left un- | maliciously contrasted with disappointments | priceless giftof America to the world, in terms | “*IfT could now present myself,” wrote Eds President, who occupied @ stand on the east | “With Columbla Commandery marched the | org of Washington the retanants of & voles finished, with the appointment of a Joint Com- | and alleged inaction of his own, but iy repell- | which may doftany sortof justice, or afford | mund Randolph, who bad made injurious front. Along jhe line of march there was | visiting members from Palestine Commandery, | which is failing, and of a vigor which, | am con- | mission to direct ais supervise its completion, | ing the machinations of discontented and | any degree of satisfaction to “his hearers or to | putations on Wash'ngton before and after large gathering of spectators, and the gaily dec- | of Trenton, N. J.—James McKinney, eminent | scious, is ebbin; away! : settled the whoie matter. To that Joint Com: | mutinous officers at Newburgh, in poring himself? ismissal from ~be Cabinet in 1795,—“if 1 Orated buildings, with the banners and flags | Commander; Jos. 1. Bragg, captain general,and | | It ls how, Mr. Prosident, Senators a. 1 Repre- | mission, consisting of the President oi the United | overtures to Invest him with dictatorial and | Modest, disinterested, generous, just,—of clean | now present myself oefore your vei floating in the st ind: anne Visiting members from Maryland Commandery, | sentatives, more than half a century since a| States for the time being, the Senior Vice- | even Kingly power, and in coal surrendering | hands and a pure heart,—self-denying and self-| uncle,” he wrote most touchingly to eae fe tha calitiane ac “rds tine of Baitimore. Yoluntary Association of patriotic citizens ini-| President, of the Monument Association, the | his sword and commission so simply, so sub- | sacrificing, seeking nothing for himself, declin- | Bushtod Washington 1p 1510, “it would be mi; Mivtutiee Ain ploteraacy othe Hnes or Whe | , Potomac Commandery, No. 8.—OMcers—Jos. | ated the project of erecting a National Monu- | Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, | limely, to the Congress from which he had re- | ing all remuneration beyond the reimburse- | pride to confess my contrition, that 1 # ng and picturesque. nes of the | Libbey, em. commander; A. B. Jackson, gen- | ment to Washington in the city which bears | with the rohitects of the Capitol and thé | celved them, ment of bis outlays, scrupulous to @ farthing in | my trritation, let the cause be what it might military passed along, the men muffled in their °F him the Aedicated from this time forth to the tmmortal | marshaled by Harrison Dingman, grand’ mar- | structure, and those younger hearts and hands ame and memory of George Washington. shal of the grand lodge, with the following | Which have al last brought forth the capstone He was frequently interrupted by applause, | aides:—L. D. -Wine, Will A. Short, J.C. Dulin, | Sit? shoutlngs. Itis or this you have sumone ~ eralissimo; R. W. Darby, captain general; his name. More than a whole centur: ‘o, in- | Treasury, the congratulations and thanks of us| | Or, turning sharply from this summary and | keeping his accounts, of spotiess integrity, | use some of those expressions res} overcoats and Se eile ae a7 | Schultze, treasurer; C. Shekell, recorder. deed,—in that Great, year of our Lord whieh | ail may, well be tendered, But I think they | familiar sketch of his military career,—of | scorning pitts, charitable. tothe needy, forgiv: | which, at this moment. of indifference to the sterner aspects whlch are weeeistaditk | De Molay Mounted Commandery, No. 4.—Om- | witnessed the Treaty of Peace and Independ- | will alPcordially agree ‘with me that the maix | which, take it for all in all, 1ts long duration, tes Ing injuries snd injustices, brave, fea e- | world, I wish to recall, as being Inconsisten! — ops rs le i a - w a cers—T. Somerville, em. commander, G, A. | ence, 1783,—Congress had ordered an Eques-| credit and honor of What has been ac- | slender means, its vast theatre, iteglorious alms | rofe, with a prudence repel eae? his im- | with my subsequent conviction. My life will, w he gore war, 4 an 0) eo e civ: ae we Shehan, Reneraltsalsng; R. T. Heiston, captain | trian Statue of him to be executed, “to testify | complished belongs peculiarly and pre- | and ends and rea atk there is no parallel in his- | pulses and a wisdom ever gu! Se his valor,— | hope, be sufficiently extended for the recordii eeu 1 a! Mery Pike the par irr oos ve, | general; W. S. Roose, treasurer. the love, admiration and gratitude of his coun-]emiuentiy to the distinguished officer of | tory,—turning sharply from all this, need I re-| true to pain par rgd his whole country, | of my sincere opinion of his virtues and merit ee ee pos ing that ever | “ Then followed Gelegates from the Grand Com- | trymen;” and again, immediately after his | Engineers who has been their devoted and un- | cali him, in this presence, presiding with para-| true to -himself, cl ‘ing God, believing in| ina style which is pot the result of @ mini manderies of Maryland and Virginia. The | death, in 1799, Congress had solemnly voted a| tiring Agent from the outset. The marvelous | mount infiuénce and authority over the Con- Christ, no stranger to Habe devotion or pub- | merely debilitated by misfortune, but of The the Procession. Royal Arch Masons of the District were next in | marble monument fo hin at the Capital, “so | worlk of extending and strengthening the foun- | Vention which framed the Constitution of tho | lic worship, oF 10. the hollest offices ofthe | Pinscta Prine hy of which alone I depen The line ed in the following order: line. This part of the line was closed with the Gealgned as to commemorate the great events | dations of a structure slready weighing, as it | United States,and then, with such consummate | Church to which he belo! , but ever grate- | for inward tranquil ty. ie Grand Royal Arch eaten 3 the District. | of his military and political life.” But our be- | did, not less than thirty-two thousand tons,— | discretion,dignity,and wisdom,over the original | fully recognizing a Divine aid and direction in And far more touching and more tellt 0 Officers—Geo. E. Corson, ..G. H. Priest; | loved country, while yet in its infaney, and, I | sixty-four million pounds,—an operation which | administration ofthat Constitution, when. the | all that he attempted and in all that he accom. | js the fact, that even Thoms Conwas, D Wm. G. Powers, E.G. King; Wili 4. Short, | may add, in {ts indigency, with no experience | has won. the admiration of engineers all over | principles and precedents of our great Federal | plished,—what epithe, what attribute, could | Matte cnet despicable cabal at Vaile; R. E.G Seribe; L. G. Stephens, R. E.G. Seere- | in matters of art, and heavily weighed down { the world, and which will always associate this | 8Ystem of government were moulded, formed added to that consummate character to | but who lived to redeem bis name tary; M. R. Thorp, K. E.G. Treasurer; John | by the great debt of the Revolutionary War, | monument with @ signal triumph of scientifie | and established? commend it as an example above all other | lands, if not in our own,—when believing hime Lockie, E.G, Visitor and Lec.; T. G. Addison, | Knew better how to vote monuments than how | skill,—was executed upon his responsibility and | _It was well said by John Milton, in one of his | characters in merely human history! self to be mortally wounded in a duel, in 1778, Rev, aad = G. Chay RS ‘W. R. Bushby, E.G. Capt. | to build them, or, still more, how to pay for | under his personal supervision, His, too, have | powerful Defences of the People of England,| From first_to aiiaer: never solicit i! lost; Bal 2 or | and “Just able,” ak he sald, “to bold the pen E.G. P. Sojourner; E.'S. | them. Yorktown’monuments and Washi been the ingenious and effective arrangements | “War has made many great, whom Peace makes | sought, an office, military or civil. Every oifice | @ few minutes,"—employed those few minutes Holmes, EG. A. Captain: Ale. Heitenzte monuments, and the statues of I know not how | by which tke enormous shaft bas: bestcaeriead | SMalL” Bat Of Wealineto we ee eaees | sought, an office, mi him, and was ennobled by | In writing to Washinetos to express big aioe he |; J. M, Fernande: hy i; t | many heroes of our struggle for Independence, | up, course after course, until {t has reached its | Milton said of Cromwell, that, while War made | his acceptance of it. Honors clustered around | cere grief for hw done, written, or said any- 2d Vail; H. M. Gillman, E. G. M. of ‘Ist Vail; L, | made a fine Show on paper in our early records, | destined height of five hundred and fifty-five | him great, Peace made him ter; or rather | him as if by the force of "first intention.” Re- thing disagreeable” to iim, adding'these memo- Stoddard, Grand Sentinel. The Master Masons, | and were creditable to those who ordered them; | feet, as we sce it at this hour, ‘To Colonel Thomas | that both War and Peace alike gave opportu- | sponsibilities heap themselves on his shoulders | rable words: “You are, in’my eyes, the ofthe District, arrayed in the blue lodge regalia, | but their ‘pinctical execution seems to huve | Lincolg) Cases, whose naine is associated in | nity for the display of those incomparable in- | as if by the law of gravitation. They could rest | and good man. May you long enjoy the followed in a [ong line. indefinitely postponed. three generat! with valued military service | nate qualities, which no mere circumstances | safely nowhere else, and they found him ever | veneration, and esteem of these states, whose Du Pont Lodge, of Du Pont Mills, Del. with | The Washington Monument Association, in- | to his country, the successful completion of the | could create or destroy. ready to bear them ail, ever equal to discharge | liberties you have asserted oy your virtues!” the following officers: James E. ’McGi n, | stituted in 1833, resolved that nosuch post- | monument is due. Buthe would not have us| But his sword was not quite yet ready torest | them all. To whatis called personal magnet-| From his illustrious triend, Alexander Ham- master; Theodore Work, senior warden; John | ponement should longer be endured, and pro- | forget his accomplished Assistant, Captain | quietly in its scabbard. Need I recall him once | ism he could have SS A vein | flton,I need not cite a word. His whole Lynn, junior warden; David Logat wi 2 a D, senior dea- | ceeded to o1 ‘ize themselves for the work | Ge W. Davis, and neither of them would | more, after his retirement from a second term | of dignified reserve, which Houdon and Stuart | bore testimony, mure impressive than con; Nelson. ey. Junior deacon; Alex. Col- | which bas at length been completed. They | a Severe failto remember Superintendent Me- | of the Chief quagisitecy, accepting a aubordinate have rightly made his peculiar characteristic | to an ‘Sdmiration and affection for his houn, secretary; Joseph Clark; treasurer; P. F. | for their first President the great Chief Justice, | Laughlin and the hard-handed and honest- | position under his successor in @ Presidency, | in marble and on canvas, repressed all fam!-| chief, which could not be exceeded, and Maney, marshiil, Other members present— | John Marshall, the personal friend and choset | hearted mechanics who have labored s0 long | a8 Lieutenant-Generalof the American Agmies, | larities with him. His magnelisin was that of | no momentary misunderstandings could shake. lem 7 a ich hy, Luther | biographer of ‘Washington, whose impressive r their direction. in view of an impending foreign war, merit,—superior, surpassing merit—the merit | “But listen once more, and only onee more, to Cloud, Stephen Cloud, Harry James image you have so recantly, ‘and so worthily un- ane coronat opus. The completion crowns | thank God, was so apply, averted?" ot cpcilon Spe i of recugained ability, and | Lafayette, ae oe Washington trom Gadié tn Sterling and Samuel Moore. yeiled on yonder Western Terrace. They had | the work. To-day that work speaks for ttself,| Nor can any one who hears me require to be | of unwearied wi Py tepree! spend ae 1783, when the glad ti of, aS THE CHIEF The Alexandria Washington ie, of Alex- | for their second President the not less’ illus- | and needs no other orator. Mute and lifeless ag | eminded of that last scene of all, when, in his | in the service of his country. That was suf | Peace had just reached him: “Were | EF MARSHAL, andria, Va. and delegations from Washington | trious James Madison, the father of the Consti- | it seems, 1t has @ living and audible volce for all | elght-and-sixtieth year, having been overtaken | ficient to attract irresistibly to his su not| such @ man as Julius Cesar, oF the Hing of Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan, U.S. A., marshal Lodge, No: 'S, of Baltimore; St. John's Lodge, | tution of which Marshall was the Interpreter, | who betvold i; and noone can misinterpret its | by a fatal shower of sleétand snow, in themidst | only the great mass of the but Prussia, Tshould almost be sorry for you at ofthe day, with his personal escort, the First | No.1, of New York city, Worshipful Master, | and whose statue might well have no inferior | language. Nor wij! any one I think, longer ca- | of those Agicaltarel pursuits in which he go | and best of his contemporaries in all quarters | end of the great tragedy where you are acting ‘Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, thirty-seven | W- H. MacDougal; Past W. M.J. B. 8. | place on the same Terrace. Among the other | vil about its design. That design, lét me add, | much delighted, at Mount Vi But, with Phillips, J: | oa e) f that, Aswociati d by the Washi if calmly down to dion “not wrratd to por gs signal duscetatnato suck advisers and’coun: | jolce atthe, biceige ofS Stese ie ea one " " . | officers and managers of that Association, I can- ly prepares the Washin archi- | sel lown to die,—“no! "as 4 ice e ofa our men, captain, Edward B. Grubb, first Heu-| warden; E. M. Shaw, J. deacon, W. H.- fy, | not forget. the natnes of William W: Seaton, | eset Revert allie, of Mouth Carelina, ‘and | be whispered to is phystean-rand Ie, tis | 20 fors, in War and in Peace, as have neyer sur- | hoble ends have been secured, @ eck tenant, J. L. Wilson; second lieutenant, J. E.| treasurer. Fredericksburg No. 4, of | whose memory is deservedly cherished by all | adopted long before I had any relations to this | whole country in tears such as had never flowed. rounded any other American leader, No jeal- | you, who truly can say you have done all Carpenter; cornet, Chas. E. Kelley; surgeon, J. | Fredericksburg, Va. who knew him of {hat grand old soldier and | Assoclation, was commended to public favor by | before. “Mark the perfect man and behold the | ousy of their abilities and accom) is | what must your virtuous and good heart feel in ‘W. White: first sergeant, Jobn A. Fell, Members in the city of Grand Lodges of vari- triot, Winfleld Scott; of Generals Archibald | such illustvious names as Andrew Jackson, upright, for the end of that man is peace!” -|ever ruffled his breast, and with them he | the happy moment when the Chi id ne Sates Glen Albers ous states came next in line, and were formed Bendevson ant Nathan Towson; ot Walter | John Quincy Adams, Albert Gallatin, Henry eye years ago to-morrow—his sixty- | achieved our Independence, organised our Con have made is now firmly estab! v. (5 heb Bvt Bele: Gen. Tt Ordway, | in the following order: Grand Tiler Thomas J. | Jones, and Peter Force, and Philip Fendall; to- | Clay, and Daniel Webster. A colonnade encir- | eighth birthday—was solemnly assigned by | stitutional Government, and stamped bis name | and truly did ie i $9 his Oe wid. Wome Egwards, with drawn eword: Grand Ste ether with that of its indefatigable General | cling its base, and intended as a sort of Pan- | Congress {or a general manifestation of that | indelibly on the age in’ which he lived as the | General was of ano! irit and of a alr palsids—Lieat. Col. W.J. Volkmar, U- k N. Carver and Edward Kern, with gent, honest old Elisha Whittlesey.’ To that | theon, was soon discarded from the plan. Its | Overwhelming national sorrow, and for the of Washington! monld from Cesar and Wi yet a Linden Kent. V. Shertd: = {unlor and ‘senior wardens of lodges, masters Association our earliest and most grateful ac- | main feature, from the first, was an obelisk, | commemoration, by eulogies, addresses, ser- fell did ‘Justice Marshall, in thatad-| had little, or nothing, in common with Be eT ene CRt ALN Sheridan, U- | lodges, past masters, past_ grand masters, past | knowledgmenta are due on this occasion. But | alter the example of that which had thes teat | mons, and religious rites, of the life which | mirable Preface to the of his revered | great milltary heroes of’ his own or any Capt sok By ears F: Gregory, U.S. A- | grand ‘treasurers, m hast grand secretaries past | of those whom I have named, and of many | recently agreed upon for Bunker Hill, And so | had thus been closed. But long before that an- | and illustrious friend, sum ith judicial pre- | age, ering for the sake, of Ma key inns, U.S. 8.5 My. Walker Blaine, Santor grand wi ns, past senior gran war- | others whom I might name, so long among the | it stands to-day, a simple, sublime obelisk of | niversary arrived, and one day only after the | cision the services he was t_ to describe in | “wading iter to @ throne, Be eer Hermes Cape. Francis V- Greene; | dens, past grand deputy masters: the Grand | honored and fatulllar figures of this metropolis, | purg white marble, {ts proportions, ir apite of | ead tidings had senched the sent OF eave | GotaaL Well Sioa truly, did he say, As If the | overrunning the world, at. & qpuntiess ‘cost, Ware 2% H. L Cranford, U. 8. V.; Medical | pursulvant, 0. 8. Firman; Grand , Jo- | not one is left to be the subject of our congratu- fe immense height, conforming e; to | in Philadelphia, President John “Adams, in re- | chosen instrument of Heave: lected for the | blood and treasure, to grati! own Danner 9; Mt. Browne, U. 8. N.; Mr. seph Hamacher; Grand Chay ain, C. B. Smith; | lations. all rejoice meanwhile to welcome | those of the most celebrated gbelisies of | ply to.a message of the Mouse of Reprosente: Purpose of the great of Provi- ior be gestion bhure teed Geena eth ‘Amoe Wer leat. ee. Mason, U. 8.N.; Col.| Grand Secretary, Wm. BR. ton; Grand | the presence of one of their contemporariesand | antiquity, 98 my accomplished and la- tiv had anticipated all panegyrice by a de-| dence our Western No ancient Plutarch has & Mi Einors: 3 r ete ctenley. Treasurer, C. C, Duncanson; Senior Grand War- | friends, whose munificent endowments for Art, | ment lend, our late Minister to Italy, so lon, a8 true to-day as it was then, that he | it was ‘lotof this dis man, Major Green Cli F | i F i den, Jose M. Y: ; Junior Grand Warden | Education, Religion and Charity entitle him Aly poll out tous, It is indeed, was “the most illustrious and beloved person- | atevery =A Goodloe, U. 8. | Jesse W. Leg ies nee masters, bearing #0 enviable a place on the roll o ‘American pe BADD lly ho ancient obeliaks, a monotite oe as age which this country ever produced;” while | try lependent onthe meaduresadopied, ancient and modern alike, be stands, 4 vangerfield, EVt. Major Clay-| the lesser hi Edw. M. Boleter, Na- | lanthropists,—the venerable William W. Corco- | stone cut whole from the quarry; that ona onry Lee, of Virginia, through the lips ofJohn | to be "by the united voice of his w- | spect, as individual and unique as yonder ma- 3, Bre Major Joho B. | val Loage, Bo. ; Isaac Birch, Potomac, No, 5; ran, how, and for many years past, our senior | have beep obvious) impossible for an 0 | M 1, had summed up and condensed all | citizens to ‘high stations op which the | jestic Needle. MSV o Deas vt: Ligue Gol, enees | TBO HE | aa, LT ne Gj poaret, ot | Vico President. . A colossal, Nor could we have been to | that was felt, and all that could be or ever can (of those measures principally de- 1a bis Fuloey on Washington before the Lagis- eau. Bvt. . J. fifteen years, however, elapsed before possible in de! ‘those hable words which pens ome a = Truesdell, U.S. V; Capt. LN. Burritt, 0-8 We | (Ugreet Light, MJ. Jroore, of Columbia | | N plans of the funda of this Aeomher oe cere | attempt the TBuichCaltiat wn | ee cngiag: y 1 from “ay fa. ofconstruction. We ht centuries, In do not that there have been Bet Cot _Atehibaia Hopkins, U. 8. Vs Capt: | 5°sP"eggleston, ‘National No, iver inva state of sumcient forwardness to warrant | well bo ealled ob to, adopt as the ombleras of | Fe ergryetomene ail treme shall bs no more ther Sam in other lands, and Honorary staff representing states and terri- | Letiges No, 15: the eu) foundation stoneot the conte piatarsienstre | Seek See ees oT aware | pests, War 7 =“ $ ‘con: Structur er F Se ee John ‘That day arrived atlust,—the 4th pera, 48. | fea is certainly at liberty to present new models | But there are other Igwords which | councils, —s Morgan; Arkan- i i c Gen. James C. Tappan; California, Mr. Thos. And a great day it was In this the IL as ernme! will resounc hb of bis to ‘with as: power, ven the name of €. Quanirell; Colorado, Major J. V. W. Vanden: re had teen uo day like it hore be- | upon old ones; and, as T ventured tosstggest | Opn, not loss ‘metsrable than his actayceome | eritioel adiairas and honor waitever on | grown dim in thelr eves. ©= (= © ware, Gen. J. Parke Poatony Fisciae CSL, Bae ike thee since fe any one dares u dcaerp| Wilf bg wn hore murat and wimbute a | gil sorrepbndencn acne of tra te tantgural | tinue lade a Marais or Febmaziaret | SS, would“be's bribe a Vent lace &. Jones; Georgia, Col: Clifford "W, Ander- tion of it, he wili finds most exact and vivid | en Poh ‘and somé of need 7 bodying, as it does, the idea of our cherished them, one in the columns of the old National Inievit- | National motto, E Bu ib son; [llinots, Gen. Green ny Oy “it URIBUS Unum. That com- has BF sitors, the ‘scoomplished Yosepu cakes | Pst taro ead eats hela nae oopneRs | Ben aay cotapeallion of waiuagiced wis: 3. Raum; Indiana, Col. R. W. McBride; Iowa, Col. William P. burn; Kansas, Gen. C. W. Mi i Be Hi 1 i i E § - : |