CXXX.- WASHINGTON AT NEW EVARTS. WILLIAM M. EVARTS, one of the foremost lawyers of th and widely known as an orator, was born in Boston in 1818. Yale College in 1837, he studied law and was admitted to York City. During President Hayes's administration he v State. After the surrender of Cornwallis and the British arm Washington established his headquarters at Newburg on t the American armies were encamped in the neighboring fie remained eighteen months, awaiting the result of negotia At last the treaty was signed, acknowledging our independ 18th of October, 1783, Congress issued a proclamation disch 3d of November, all who had engaged to serve during the w The following eloquent tribute paid to the services and cl ington is taken from Mr. Evarts's oration, delivered at the Ce tion in the city of Newburg, October 18th, 1883. 1. On this very day, one hundred years a issued a proclamation disbanding all the Washington, from Princeton, under date of I 1783, put forth his "Farewell Address to of the United States." 2. These two remarkable papers emb their counsels, their exhortations, their their warnings, and their benediction, the the soldiers of the whole country. They the evidence and the annunciation that th of Independence was accomplished, and tl established. 3. No formal proclamations, no authenti ernment, could carry the weight, could re tention, could pervade the public mind, e the hearts, could stimulate the conscience, ir promised land, as did these personal words of eat leader. e stood, he was to stand, upon the level of comizenship with themselves. But it was a citizenich had been built up, and was to endure, as a of glory to a whole people, and an inheritance › perish, till they had lost the virtues illustrated ulcated by Washington. he interest, the reverence, that we feel as we hese great transactions, as we stand upon the ere they were enacted, center upon Washington. verywhere and at all times, the part played upon d, in these closing months of the Revolution, was 3 conspicuous nor complete in its greatness than nifestation of his life. ad these events closed his public service, had he rever retired from the great theater of action and , had he never filled out our admiration and our le by the eight years of private life and the eight of the chief magistracy which followed the surof his military command, if his great presence framing of the Constitution and in the guidance nation by high statesmanship and pure adminisif all this had been wanting to the full splenhis fame, if he stood to his countrymen in their y as he stood upon this very spot one hundred go,—his face would have shone to all this peodid the face of Moses to the children of Israel he delivered the Tables of the Law. And now, after a hundred years of marvelous forand crowded experiences, we confront the days e works and the men of the first age of the pendence by establishing our right to though other powers sought to draw us in the war for boundary, which pushed our Pacific, and rounded our territory; the wa stitution, which established for this peo them and forever, "Liberty and Union inseparable." 8. These rolling years have shown gr growth, and strength, increasing strength and numbers ever expanding, while intellig art, culture, and religion have pervaded and this material greatness. Wide, however, a and vast our population to-day, these are to the name, the fame, the power of the acter of Washington. No spot in the inhospitable to his glory, and no people in in the influence of his power and his virtue dis-band'ing, dismissing from mili- | in-cul'cāt-ed, taug tary service. in-hos/pi-ta-ble, u au-then'tic, true and authoritative. passing from the wilderness, etc. (3). What event is here alluded to? Find in the Bible something said abo ised to the Israelites. the face of Moses (6). See I 30. Three wars (7). Describe more definitely these w Explain the phrases "the chief magistracy" (6); “fran tion" (6). What is the literal meaning of "disbanding" any difference in meaning between "counsel" and " What word is the opposite of "benediction" (2)? Can y ence in meaning between "reputation" and "character" ( the heroes who left us their glory, e through their battle-fields' thunder and flame d in song and illumined in story, e o'er us all who inherit their fame! Up with our banner bright, Sprinkled with starry light, its fair emblems from mountain to shore, While through the sounding sky Loud rings the Nation's cry, and Liberty! One evermore! 2. f our firmament, guide of our Nation, 3. unsceptered! what foe shall assail thee, ing the standard of Liberty's van? not the God of thy fathers shall fail thee, ing with men for the birthright of man! 4. by madness and treachery blighted, ns the dark hour when the sword thou must draw with the arms of thy millions united te the bold traitors to Freedom and Law! Trusting Thee always, through shadow Spread its fair emblems from mountain t Union and Liberty! One evermore! bla/zoned (-znd), proclaimed. | il-lu/mined, lighted Explain: sprinkled with starry light (1); empire unsc erty's van (3); the Many in One (5). What real meaning is expressed metaphorically in the lines of the second stanza? |