Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — The Testimony of Time. [ARTICLE]

The Testimony of Time.

The people of these United States this year celebrate the one hundred and sixtieth anniversary of George Washington’s birth. Every intelligent and patriotic citizen will rocall with pride the influence of his triumphs in war, Ids accomplishments as the first President of tho Kepublio, his superb character as a man. The visible results of the policy inaugurated under his executive approval

are marvelous. Thirteen States formed his confederacy, all of them purely agricultural. Since the Continental regime they have become the foremost region of the world In the variety and volume of their manufactures through the unexampled fertility of inventive genius. He stands the noblest leader who was ever Intrusted with his country’s life. His patience under provocation; his calmness in danger, and lofty courage when all others despaired; his prudent dolays when the Continental Congress was imperative and the staff almost insubordinate, and his quick resistless blows when action was possible; his magnanimity to his dofamers and generosity to his foes; his ambition for his country and unselfishness for himself; his sole desire the freedom and independence of America, and lrs only wish to return after victory so private life and the peaceful pursuits and pleasutes of home, have art combined to make him, by the unanimous judgment pf the world, the foremost figure of history. Not so abnormally developed In any direction as to be called a genius, yet he was the strongest, because the best balanced, tlib fullest rounded, the most even, and most self-masterful of men—the incarnation of common sense and moral purity, of action and repose. The Republic will live so long as it reveres the memory and emulates tho virtues of George Washington.