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To THE EDITORS Please insert in the
Fountain" the following beautiful extract,
which take from MIR. Webser's address. de-
livered at the completion of, Bunker's Hill
Monument, on the 18th Of June, lS43. II is
alike worthy the illustrious individual. whose
greatness he perpetuates and his own wide
spread fame H.J.W.


18th June, 1916.


" America has furnished to the world the
character Of Washington, And if our Amer
lean Institutions had done nothing else, that
alone would have entitled them to the respect
of mankind.


/" Washington! First in war, first in peace.
and irst IN the hearts Of his countrymep
washington is all our own The enthusias-
TIC vsneratlon and regard in which the people
OF the United States hold him, prove them to
oe worthy OF such countrymen while his
reputation abroad reflects the highest honors on
his country and its institutions would cheer
fully put the question today to the intelligence
OF Europe and the world, what character Of
the century, upon the whole, stands out in the
relief OF history, most pure. most respectable.
most sublime and doubt not, that by suf-
frage approaching to unanimity, the answer
would be Washington!


F" This structure, by its uprightness its solid
lty, Its durability, is no unfit emblem of his
character. His public virtues and public prin-
cIples were as firm as the earth on which il
stands; his personal motives as pure as the
serene Heaven in which its summit is los,
But indeed, though 6t, it is an Inadequate
emblem, Towering high above the column
which our hands have builded, behold. not bv
the inhabitants Of single city or State -ascends
the colossal grandeur Of his character, and his
llie In all the constituents of the one-n all The
acts OF the other-in all IFS titles to immortal
love, admiration and renown-t is an Ameri-
can production. II is the embodiment and win.
dicalon Of our transatlantic liberty. Born
upon ur So--of parents also born upon H.
instructed, according to the modes of his times
only IN the spare, plain, but wholesome ele.
mentary knowledge which our institutions nro.
vided for the education OF the children of ,ho
People-growng up beneath and penetrated by
the genuine influence Of American society
growing up amidst our expanding. but not
luxurious clvillzation--partaking in our great