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mitted by circumstances, to cultivate and
adorn. "a change" must, indeed, have come
over the place; and vainly now does the eye
search for those


deep waving fields and pastures green,


With gentle slopes and groves between"


But it is not TO find fault, in any respect,
with the present owner of Mount Vernon, that
] call your attention to this subject. The land
is his: he can, of course, lawfully do with it
as his will or ability may dictate; and ], for
one, will never be guilty of the indelicate ques-
tion, why this or that, in regard to the matter,
has not been DONE But the subject is, to very
great extent, public one, and one in which
cannot help saying, a deeper interest should be
felt throughout the land than has heretofore
been evinced. Little is wanted; very mod
crate amount of attention and labor would
suffice to give respectable appearance to the
tomb and its neighborhood. No shining mon
ument of polished marble, as if in impious
mockery OF death, is desired in that quiet val
ley; no labored work of art, no gorgeous pile,
with lengthy inscription, is wanted to mark
or embellish the place where lies GEORGE
WASHINGTON, or to draw from the passer-by the
shallow, valueless exclamation, show beau
tiful!" No; the res,ing-place chosen by him
should continue to be, as il has been for nearly
half a century, hs-his only; but, while its
simplicity, and humble unimposing appear
ance are preserved, let its general features be
restored to what they were at that melancholy
hour when the sod was disturbed to embosom
him whom the world loved, and on whom,
nationally, his grateful countrymen have long
and appropriately bestowed the appellation Of
father Let the nation interfere and look to il,
las far as propriety will allow,) and SO act
that, when we shall in future have occasion to
visit or pass in sight Of Mount Vernon, we may
not blush in shame to say, there is the tomb
Of WASHINGTON - X.