The Washington Centenary Celebrated in New-York April 29, 30-May 1, 1899Tribune association, 1889 - 120 páginas |
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Adjutant American applause Army Artillery band battalion Battery Beekman blue boat Brigade Broadway Brooklyn bunting Captain carriage celebration Centennial Charles cheers Chief Colonel command Committee Congress Constitution crowd decorations Despatch division dressed Edward Elizabethport Equitable Building Erastus Wiman escorted Fifth-ave flags float followed Frederick front George George W Gerry Government Governor Grand Guard guests Hamilton Hamilton Fish head Henry Henry W honor inspector of rifle Isaac L James John liberty Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Livingston Major marched marshal Mayor Grant ment Miss Morton National New-Jersey New-York New-York City o'clock officers organizations parade party patriotic President Harrison President's Quartermaster Regiment Republic rifle practice Robert salute Samuel Secretary Senator Separate Company Society soldiers Square staff stand Staten Island Steamboat stood streets Stuyvesant Fish Surgeon tion to-day troops uniform Union United veteran Vice-President Wall-st Washington William William H wore yesterday
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Página 110 - And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Página 109 - ... country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and in my flattering hopes with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
Página 109 - I dare hope is, that if in executing this task I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens ; and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me; my error will be palliated by the motives which misled me, and its consequences be judged by my country, with some share of the partiality in which they originated.
Página 109 - I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years...
Página 110 - ... united and effective government, or which ought to await the future lessons of experience ; a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen, and a regard for the public harmony, will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question, how far the former can be more impregnably fortified, or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.
Página 43 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair : the event is in the hand of God.
Página 109 - On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one, who inheriting inferior endowments from nature, and unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies.
Página 110 - I shall take my present leave, but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the human race, in humble supplication, that, since he has been pleased to...
Página 110 - It will be more consistent with those circumstances and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me to substitute in place of a recommendation of particular measures the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them.
Página 110 - When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation.