Edward Everett concludes that masterpiece of consummate oratory. his address on the character of Washington: Let us make a national festival and holiday of his birthday. and ever as tl 22d of February returns lotus remember that while with these solenin and joyous rites of observance we celebrate the great anniversary. our fellowcitizens on the Hudson. on the rotomaec. from the Southern plains to the Western lakes. are on. gaged in the saine otices of gratitude and love. Nor we. nor they alone. Beyond the Ohio. beyond thoMississippi. along thatstupeidous trail of immigration from the East to the West. which. bursting into States as itnioves westward. is already threading the Western prairies. swarming through the portals of the Rocky Mountains and windingdowu their slopes. the name and the memory of Washingten on that gracious night will travel with the sitver queen of heaven through sixty degrees of longitude. nor pert company with her till she walks in her brightness through the Golen Gate of california and passes serenely on to hold zeidnight court with her Australian stars. There endi there only. in barbarous archipelagos. as yet untrodden by cirilized mn. the name ofWashington is unknown. and there. too. when they swarm with enlightened millions. new lenSo shall b paid with ours to his memory. The time which the orator predicted came.
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