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The New Yorker publishes the following sketch 0
The character of Washington, which was designed 70,
Monumental Inscription, Transcribed from manuscript
copy, and written the back of picture frame in which
IS set miniature likeness Of Washington, and which
Gangs IN of the of the mansion at Mount Ver
lon having been left there time after Washington's
leath. The author of the composition is not known


WASHINGTON:
The Defender of his Country, the Founder of Liberty


The Friend of Man
History and Tradition are explored in vain


For parallel to his Character
In the Annals of modern Greatness,


lie stands alone;


And the noblest Names of Antiquity


Lose their lustre in his Presence


Born the Benefactor of Mankind


lie united all Qualities necessary


TO an Illustrious Career.


Nature made him Great


lie made himself Virtuous.
Called by his Country to the Defence of her liberties
ne ualnPhantiy yindicated the Rights of Humanity
hho on the Pillars Of National Independence
Laid The Foundations of Great Republic
Iwce invested with Supreme Magistracy
Dy "e unanimous Voice of Free People,


he , surpassed in the Cabinet


l he Glores of the Field:
And voluntarily resignng the Sceptre and tho swora
heured TO the Shades of Private Life
spectacle new and SO sublime
Was contemplated with the profoundest admiration.
And the name of WAsHINcToN
Adding Lusre to Humanity
Resounded to the Remotest Regions of the Earth


Magnanmous in YOUTH


Glorious through Life,


Great in Death,
Ills highest Ambition the Happiness of Mankind
:, his noblest Victory the Conquest of Himself.
bequeathng to Postery the inheritance of his Fame
Ana building his Monument in the Hearts of his


Countrymen.
lie lived the Ornament of the Eighteenth Century
ana died Regretted by Mourning World