WASHINGTON'S NAME IN THE HALL OF

FAME

BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER

Republics are ungrateful, but ours, its best-loved

son

Still keeps in memory green, and wreathes the name of Washington.

As year by year returns the day that saw the patriot's birth,

With boom of gun and beat of drum and peals of joy and mirth,

And songs of children in the streets and march of men-at-arms,

We honor pay to him who stood serene 'mid war's

alarms;

And with his ragged volunteers long kept the foe at

bay,

And bore the flag to victory in many a battle's day.

We were a little nation then; so mighty have we

grown

That scarce would Washington believe to-day we were his own.

With ships that sail on every sea,

port,

and sons in every

And harvest-fields to feed the world, wherever food

is short,

And if at council-board our chiefs are now discreet

and wise,

And if to great estate and high, our farmers' lads may rise,

We owe a debt to him who set the fashion of our

fame,

And never more may we forget our loftiest hero's

name.

Great knightly soul who came in time to serve his country's need,

To serve her with the timely word and with the valiant deed,

Along the ages brightening as endless cycles run Undimmed and gaining luster in the twentieth century's sun,

First in our Hall of Fame we write the name all folk may ken,

As first in war, and first in peace, first with his countrymen.

ESTIMATES OF WASHINGTON

George Washington, the brave, the wise, the good. Supreme in war, in council, and in peace. Washington, valiant, without ambition; discreet, without fear; confident, without presumption.

DR. ANDREW LEE.

More than any other individual, and as much as to one individual was possible, has he contributed to found this, our wide spreading empire, and to give to the Western World independence and freedom. CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

KOSSUTH.

More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

WASHINGTON'S RELIGIOUS CHARACTER

BY WILLIAM M'KINLEY

In an Address, February 22, 1898

Though Washington's exalted character and the most striking acts of his brilliant record are too familiar to be recounted here, yet often as the story is retold, it engages our love and admiration and in

We love to record his noble unselfishness, his heroic purposes, the power of his magnificent personality, his glorious achievements for mankind, and his stalwart and unflinching devotion to independence, liberty, and union. These cannot be too often told or be too familiarly known.

A slaveholder himself, he yet hated slavery, and provided in his will for the emancipation of his slaves. Not a college graduate, he was always enthusiastically the friend of liberal education.

And how reverent always was this great man, how prompt and generous his recognition of the guiding hand of Divine Providence in establishing and controlling the destinies of the colonies and the Republic.

Washington states the reasons of his belief in language so exalted that it should be graven deep in the mind of every patriot:

No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of man more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consents of so many distinguished communities from which the events resulted cannot be compared with the means by which most governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the same seems to presage. The reflections arising out of the present crisis have forced themselves strongly upon my mind. You will join me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government are more auspiciously commenced.

In his Farewell Address, Washington contends in part:

(1) For the promotion of institutions of learn

ing; (2) for cherishing the public credit; (3) for the observance of good faith and justice toward all nations.

At no point in his administration does Washington appear in grander proportions than when he enunciates his ideas in regard to the foreign policy of the government:

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all; religion and morality enjoin this conduct. Can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

WASHINGTON

ANONYMOUS

We are met to testify our regard for him whose name is intimately blended with whatever belongs most essentially to the prosperity, the liberty, the free institutions, and the renown of our country. That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name shone amid the storm of war, a beacon light to cheer and guide the country's friends; its flame, too, like a meteor, to repel her foes. That name in the days of peace was a loadstone, attracting to itself a whole people's confidence, a whole people's love, and the whole world's respect; that name,