AN INsULTc po .WAgBtN7YoNr =
{"character_count": 1944, "word_count": 352, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9768000245094299], "ccnet_perplexity": [1094.4000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
George Washington stands alone and uhap
proachdble on the rolls of fame The genius and
the wisdom of all nations have bowed at his tomn
and his own children, the millions who walk in
the Eight of the star-spangled banner, look up to
him as their father, and love all the glories thai
gather on his brow, for those gories are theirs moi
less than his own. And yet the memory of Wash.
ington has been insuhedin the enlightened CITY
OF New York, and in the very midst of his chill
drent Insulted, and that insult was greeted with
shouts, with the shouts of the Federal Who's |
Hear what the. Whig orator said


He (Mr Cfay) has made his own character the char
aeter of the age Washington did in his time Wash


hgton ef the nation sober, orderly; hig-minded and
patrioe but on the whole rather ,oh saegative quail


as but the man OF our time (e Mr. oEay came to give
the nation additional traits of positive and active char
acter-to make it, while it retained ali those Washing.
tonian virtues still more enterprisihg bold energetic
ardent. enthusiastic aspiring seimproSng. and self


Henry Clay compared to George Washington |
But this is not all This Whig orator: said that
Mr.. Clay WAS AMERICA ITSELF PERsoN1F1Ept"
And he was greeted by the shouts of the thousands
of wings who were present, and what he said was
endorsed by the Whig papers of the Cityl


In one sense this orator was right. Geo. Wash
ington did indeed '' leave the nation SOBER" but
he might have added, if truth had been his object
that Henry Clay is striving to make the nation
drunk God grant that success may pot attend
his efforts! May that nation-that much-abused
and longsufering nation, rise in the pride and
majesty of its ancient strength, in the prime and
fplness of its sober" days, and put down forever
the followers and supporters of any man., who
stands by and suffers his own reputation to be built
up at the expense Of the reputation and fame of
Washington