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Show WASIII.V(JTO.'S HIKTII-DAY. The following article, appropriate lo tho day, wan handed in yesterday, and wo promptly give it place: liow bright and beautiful was tho national holiday? How tho ray a of tho Mini glinted along tho mountain lops, and tho snow und tho riky rrhV!t;d hack to oarlh tho g.rnenin oun-liglil. that eiuanalori from tlio '1'hrono of (rod in Una von liow that dear U it; filiated proudly from the teiuplerd of tlio Mormons, tlio ehurchef) of the (JontiltiH, the meeting housoa of the I'rotoHtanh, and oven tho huuihlo cot-logos cot-logos pud wash houses of I ho Ohina-niuii Ohina-niuii I And only think, that ho who wuh bO great aid ho good, sit a uhiivo these mountains, in yonder bright Heaven.", and looks down on t.h'iH country mid tins peoplo to ilny. On his right stands tho immortal Jof-fiTson; Jof-fiTson; on his left, Hamilton, and Madron, mid Adums, and Knox; and all tho hiiavens resound with joy, at this great natal d:iy, Hinco he lived, "tir.st in peace, lir,-it in war, first in tho hearts jf his countrymen, " what wondrous changes havo u uk ! Then, hut three millions of people clustered along 1 1 10 Alleghunies and tlio Atlantic; Atlan-tic; now ihero aro tbrly millions. Then, hero and there a solitary ship of I ho oul-ouic.i oul-ouic.i ploughed the son'now tens ot thousands thou-sands of steamers traverse every sea. Then, weeks wero exhausted in a trip from Washington to tho Ohio; now, the continent is traversed in n single week. Then, muni lis often elapsed hotwejn the ucivs of Kuropo and our iihores; now, tho earth is girded in a single minute, and tho lightning's ll -i.su tells of tho doath id' emperors, ilio destruction of kingilaniJ, iho cs-mhlisliiuent cs-mhlisliiuent of re publics. Then, hero and there across tho Kustern ritatos a. meoiing houso and a school houro, marked tho bctiinuiug of tho pioneers; but to day tho sun shines back from tho pointed spires of thousands of huu.Hoa dedicated to God, and tho music mu-sic of the spheres rings out tho joyous cry, ' God bios our W a-shinyton:" and its echoes commencing amidst tho whito hills of iNViv llampshir'o come buck from tho Kooky Mountains and Hterras Nevada, "God bless our Wash-iugtonr' Wash-iugtonr' ' liuagino Washington and his colleagues col-leagues as thoy look down from heaven ou earth, and think how their great hearts swell with joy at the ripening fruit from tho seed they had sown! lut, stop a miuutel lt us turn our eyos again to heaven, aod seo how their groat laces are sulfuucd with the blush of shame, as these fathers of tho ro-imblic ro-imblic look down upon the chair of tho Vice President filled now by one charged with being a public plunderer, aod oven accused of being a perjured maul How they tremble as luey soo American seDators,one alter tho other, convicted of "buying and soiling offices lor gold;" when llariati, and Pouie-roy, Pouie-roy, and Caldwell, pious hypocrites, plead guilty to having "stolen the livery liv-ery of heaven to serve tho devil in !" Oh, what a change from tha government govern-ment of Washington to that of Grant, what a contrast between tlio scnato of I iS'.i-1:S7U. Then tho toga of the American senator was the badge of purity, of honesty, 01 patriotism; now it is the smirched costume of tho political poli-tical drab, liko Jim Nye, tho tawdry costume of tho political thief and pei-jurer, pei-jurer, like Brooks rind Ame.i and Gar-held, Gar-held, and Ivelley. Then senators wero Patriot; to-J ay many of them arc prostitutes. Then tho government was a representative republic; new it is a despotism of plunderers aud pretenders, pretend-ers, men who seek public positions to rob tho peoplo both of their rights aud money. Tho clouds gather around the mountain moun-tain tops, tho darkness settles ou Washiugtou and the spirits of the immortal, im-mortal, and ('olumbia hides her head iu shame at tho contrast between then and now I God bicss and save the republic, is tho prayer of all honest men ! |
