Address Delivered At The Unveiling Of The Washington Statue At Newark November 2 1912

Author : Francis J. Swayze
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332760336
Total Pages : 24 pages
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Download or read book Address Delivered at the Unveiling of the Washington Statue at Newark November 2, 1912 (Classic Reprint) written by Francis J. Swayze and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Unveiling of the Washington Statue at Newark November 2, 1912 E2]statesman. Close at hand are the memorials of Seth Boyden the artisan, and Monsignor Doane the upright citizen. Facing the Court House is Lincoln, an everlasting personification of jus tice to the oppressed. Today we add the statue of a greater soldier, a greater statesman, a greater public benefactor. Washington had the supreme good fortune to be one of the foun ders of the government and Lord Bacon rightly ranks founders of the State first in the degrees of sovereign honor. If a nation's character is to be judged by the heroes it chooses as its best representatives, we may rest secure; for by common consent not of Americans only, but of every competent judge, Washington stands in the very first rank. At his death Napoleon or dered that for ten days black crape be sus pended from all the standards and banners of the French Republic. The Tory historian a few years later in a panegyric on George III counts it one of the marks of the greatness of the time that it was distinguished by the disinterested virtue, prophetic wisdom, and imperturbable fortitude of Washington. Within a few years a distinguished Englishman has ranked Wash ington with, but superior to, Cromwell and William the Silent. The work of Cromwell barely survived his lifetime, and the work of William' was limited to a nation of greatachievements, but small numbers, living upon a limited territory. The work of Washington has lasted until our own day and bids fair to last for centuries among a people already one of the great nations of the world and destined for still greater achievements. The compari son with Cromwell and William the Silent you perhaps anticipated. You could hardly antici pate, I certainly did not, that the same most competent judge ranks Washington's diplo macy and policy above that of Frederick the Great, Richelieu, Peter the Great, Louis XI of France, Elizabeth of England, William of Orange, and Cromwell, and that because he stood four square, upright, without re proach. A reputation that can win the admi ration of contemporaries and endure for a cen tury is praise enough. The records have all come to light and he has not been shamed. There is no need of labored eulogy. Ignoble minds may pick aws in his character. A valet judges according to the standard of a valet. There must be a devil's advocate at the canon ization of every saint; but no one envies the advocate his client. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."