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 BY FRANCIS KINLOCH 
 
 Of Georgetown S. C. 
 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 PRIVATELY PRINTED 
 1867 
 
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EULOGY 
 
 O N 
 George Waijhington, Efq. deceafed, 
 
 Late COMMANDER in CHIEF of 
 
 THE AMERICAN ARMIES, and 
 
 SOME TIME PRESIDENT of the 
 
 UNITED STATES. 
 
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 " Quid illo cive tuliflet, 
 " Natura in terris, quid Roma beatius unquam ?" 
 
 " Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudefque manebunt.' 
 
 eeoesedooeeeeeoeeeceeeee 
 
 GEORGETOIVN, S. C. 
 Printed by JOHN B U R D. 
 
 M D C C C. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 THE compofition, now with all due deference 
 offered to the public, was originally prepared at the 
 requejl of Jome of the inhabitants of Georgetown, 
 with a view to its being delivered in the Epifcopal 
 Church, on the lid of February lajl ; but various cir- 
 cumftances intervened, and the author with pleafure 
 Jaw the tajk to which he felt himjelf incompetent de- 
 volve upon the very refpeElable and reverend gentle- 
 man, whofe more peculiar province it is to addrefs 
 the public in that f acred place, and who was every 
 way Jo well qualified to do jujlice to theJubjeSf : He 
 could not however, deny himjelj the JatisfaElion of 
 manifefting his readinefs to comply with the wifhes 
 of his fellow citizens, as far as the powers of his 
 mind adtnit, and he embraces with readinefs the op- 
 portunity thus accidentally offered him of tefiifying 
 his veneration for the memory of General Wash- 
 ington. 
 
X^<rMI^<rMIXMXMI>OXX 
 
 EULOGY 
 
 ON THE LATE 
 
 George Wafliington, Efq. deceafed. 
 
 Fellow Citizens — 
 
 THE bafe ingratitude of popular governments 
 has been long a proverbial expreflion, but the 
 conduft of the people of America will, I truft, 
 have given rife to an opinion more honorable to 
 human nature; it will have been obferved, that 
 thofeof our country men who had the merit to deferve, 
 had alfo the happinefs to receive the grateful thanks 
 of their fellow citizens ; that they have been efteemed 
 when living, and lamented in death : And what more 
 ftriking proof of this truth, fo confoling to the mind, 
 fo ufeful to fociety, fo full of encouragement to the 
 efforts of honorable ambition could be alledged, 
 than the circumftances which marked the life of 
 
 our 
 
( 6 ) 
 
 our late Commander in Chief, and the univerfal 
 grief which has been occafioned by the event on 
 which I now folicit your attention ? I proceed with 
 confidence therefore, and with a degree of melan- 
 choly fatisfadlion, to take a tranfient view of the 
 many amiable and valuable qualities which adorned 
 that illuftrious charader : A charadter alike diftin- 
 guifbed for a pious refignation to the decrees of 
 Providence, and for unconquerable refolution in 
 every emergency : For moderation in fuccefs, for 
 patience in adverfity, for prudence when retreat was 
 unavoidable, joined to all the adlive valour of at- 
 tack, and tor a degree of integrity as unbounded as 
 the confidence of his countrymen. Such was Gen- 
 eral George Wafhington. 
 
 He was born the iith of February, 1732, of 
 refpeftable parents, whofe circumftances were eafy, 
 but, fortunately for his country, and for himfelf, not 
 fuch as left him ignorant of the necelTity he was un- 
 der of relying upon the efforts of his own mind in 
 his paflage through life. His mother was of the 
 family of Lewis ; her blamelefs life was extended to 
 a very advanced age, and the venerable matron 
 might enjoy in common with all America, the ad- 
 vantages which flowed from his condud both in the 
 cabinet and in the field, with the peculiar felicity of 
 having given birth to the hero and the ftatefman, 
 who was the guardian of his native country. Of 
 his father, he had been deprived at a very early peri- 
 od,and was brought up under the care and protedion 
 of a near relation, who bore a Major's commiffion 
 in the Britifh Provincial fervice. To this laft men- 
 tioned circumftance may be attributed his early at- 
 tachment to the profeffion of arms, and the alacrity 
 with which he undertook and executed a commiffion, 
 replete with dangers and difficulties, at the requeft 
 of the Governor and Council of Virginia. That 
 
 never 
 
( 7 ) 
 
 never ceafing iealoufv, that reftlefs fpirit of inve- 
 terate contention, that madncfs of ambition, which 
 has fo frequently convulfed all Europe, had armed 
 two powerful and rival nations againft each other, 
 and thofe refources which might have promoted to 
 fo great a degree the internal profperity of each, were 
 expended in a long and bloody conteft for the nomi- 
 nal dominion of fome of the more remote parts of 
 our continent. 
 
 The fituation of Virginia, expofed as a Briti(h 
 Province to the hoftility of favages in the pay of 
 France, rendered it neceflary to afcertain the inten- 
 tions of that government, and to watch the firft 
 motions of their troops. It was with this view that 
 our General, then almoft a youth, was called upon 
 to expofe himfelf with but one companion, to the 
 dangers of the wildernefs. 
 
 The pomp and pride of war, and every glorious 
 circumftance of martial parade, may elevate the 
 foldier's mind, and render him infenfible to the dan- 
 gers which furround him; but that refolution which 
 braves, that fortitude which chearfuUy encounters a 
 horde of treacherous, fecret and inexorable foes, 
 muft be founded on fentiments which rife far above 
 the temporary effeds of military cnthufiafm. 
 
 Having fortunatelyexecuted this firft commifTion, 
 he was again fent forth with an armed party, and 
 with the rank of Major, for the protedion of the 
 inhabitants of the frontiers, but the force employed 
 proving unequal to the occafion, his efforts were un- 
 availing, and the expedition ultimately unfortunate. 
 Soon did this inferior warfare affume a more ferious 
 appearance ; an army arrived from England, under 
 a leader of reputation, and our late general attended 
 Braddock to that fatal field, where difcipline was 
 feen to yield to the irregular attack of favages, and 
 the veterans of Europe were put to flight by the bar- 
 barians 
 
( 8 ) 
 
 barians of the foreft. It was then, amidft the confu- 
 fion attendant upon defeat, amidft carnage, and the 
 yells of an unrelenting enemy, that the cool and 
 deliberate refolution of our hero was confpicuous. 
 A body of Provincials under his command, covered 
 the rear of that part of the army which effected a 
 retreat, and entitled themfelves and their commander 
 to the acknowledgements of the unfortunate general 
 in his laft moments. 
 
 The long and bloody war which followed was at 
 length ended by the treaty of Verfailles, and Gene- 
 ral Waft\ington, at this time bearing the rank of 
 Colonel, was reftored to the bofom of his family, 
 and to the habits of domeftic life. It ever pleafes 
 the Almighty Ruler of the Univerfe to make ufe of 
 fecondary caufes in the promotion of thofe great 
 events which his wifdom prepares. It was in this 
 calm and retired interval of our General's life, that 
 he became more peculiarly fitted for the important 
 duties which awaited him. Nature had given him a 
 robuft frame, courage, and personal activity, and 
 the fcenes of the late war had enabled him to ac- 
 quire a confiderable portion of military experience; 
 but it was in communing with himfelf, it was in the 
 order and arrangement of his own concerns, it was 
 in the government of his paflions in private life, 
 that he could alone acquire that experience which 
 might enable him to regulate the important affairs of 
 a great community, to deted the artifices of inter- 
 efted men, and to controul the pafTions of an armed 
 hoft 
 
 The circumftances which led to the late Revolu- 
 tion are too recent and too generally known to per- 
 mit their being recapitulated. This great event, 
 which the forefight of politicians had placed in fome 
 remote period, and after a long feries of revolving 
 years, came unexpedledly upon mankind ; it came 
 
 like 
 
( 9 ) 
 
 like a flafh of eledric fluid from the bofom of a dark 
 and gloomy cloud, and we at once beheld with aftonifli- 
 ment this firft link of a long chain of moft important 
 circumftances. The world has now learnt the proper 
 limits of colonial obedience, it has learnt to value 
 as it ought, the obligations of that imaginary law, 
 which, in return for protedlion and afliftance in the 
 firft inftance, had configned the induftry, the talents 
 and the growing knowledge of the colony, to the 
 exclufive advantage of the metropolis forever. The 
 opprefled of all nations have learnt the fecret of their 
 ftrength, and the powerful may now fee, that no 
 difparity of numbers, no preponderance of wealth, 
 no fuperiority of difcipline, can finally fucceed a- 
 gainft thofe who are united, and whofe caufe is 
 good. 
 
 A majority of the people having determined to 
 refift the pretenfions of the parent ftate, it became 
 neceflary to form an army, and to appoint a general 
 to the command of it ; nor can any circumftance 
 better convey an idea of the extreme modefty of 
 him whofe merit created unanimity upon this occa- 
 fion, than the expreflions which accompanied his 
 acceptance of this great appointment. The tafk was 
 indeed an arduous one, for although the various 
 ranks of fociety exprefled their fenfe of the com- 
 mon caufe, and numbers appeared ready to rifle their 
 lives and their properties in defence of it, yet were 
 they but flightly imprefled with any idea of fubordin- 
 ation, the immediate leaders of their own choice 
 were without experience, and many of the moft 
 eflential articles of war were wanting ; Let the world 
 admire therefore, and let us remember with grati- 
 tude, that ftrength of mind which could encounter 
 fuch complicated difficulties, and the wifdom and 
 energy of that fyftem which could induce freemen 
 and volunteers to fubmit to the duties and difcipline 
 
 of 
 
( »o ) 
 
 of a camp ; which could call forth fuch talents as 
 were beft fuited to the various departments of an 
 army, and thus by degrees, convert the tumultuary 
 array of an undifciplined yeomanry into a regular 
 force, capable of making head againft the veteran 
 army of the enemy. 
 
 I fhall not prefume to call your attention to the 
 regular courfe of events which followed ; but there 
 are fome circumftances which ought in a more par- 
 ticular manner, to be imprefTed upon our minds, 
 fome moments of that arduous conteft which we 
 cannot too frequently refled upon. Behold our 
 General after entering Bofton in triumph, haftening 
 to the defence of New-York, and meafuring his 
 ftrength with a fuperior enemy upon the plains of 
 Long Ifland ! See him effedting a retreat in the dead 
 of night, and in the face of a great naval force, a 
 retreat not lefs glorious than vidtory, and retiring, 
 after fome inefFedlual ftruggles, through the Jerfies 
 towards Pennfylvania ! Admire that fortitude, which, 
 flowing from confcious integrity, and from a well 
 grounded confidence in the refources of his coun- 
 try, could uphold him from defpair in the word of 
 times, and could enable him to animate an unfor- 
 tunate army to undergo the fevereft toil with alacri- 
 ty, and to endure with perfeverance the moft accumu- 
 lated diftrefs ! Obferve him hovering around the 
 enemy, circumfcribing their quarters, and yet not 
 putting it in their power to force him to aftion, 
 availing himfelf of their fituation by protracting the 
 war in a country to them equally remote from fup- 
 plies, and from recruits, and yet ready to feiz'e 
 every opportunity which their negligence or their 
 temerity might offer to their difadvantage ! See him 
 prefled upon in his turn, and extricating himfelf 
 by a movement at once bold and prudent ; a move- 
 ment in which the moft fecret determination was fol- 
 lowed 
 
( II ) 
 
 lowed by the moft rapid execution, and which ex- 
 pofed the enemy to the mortification of being at- 
 tacked and routed in a diftant quarter, when on the 
 point as they fuppofed themfelves of putting an end 
 to all refiftance ! Behold him after every arrange- 
 ment which could fecure fuccefs, yielding the field 
 of battle to fuperior difcipline, referving himfelf for 
 better times, and attacking in a few weeks afterwards 
 with a fpirit, which though unfuccefsfully exerted, 
 was fuch as to convince the foe of the impoffibility 
 of conqueft ! 
 
 An efficient government, with proper means 
 for calling forth the refources of the nation and car- 
 rying on the war with vigor did not yet exift, the 
 confederation of the ftates was far from adequate to 
 the occafion, the requifitions of congrefs were ren- 
 dered fruitlefs by fupinefs, and by a thoufand jarring 
 interefts, whilft the brave defenders of the com- 
 mon caufe were left expofed to many of the wants 
 of nature in the moft inclement feafons. What ad- 
 drefs did it not require to keep together an army fo 
 circumftanced? Andwhat equity and moderation muft 
 have been exercifed by him who could mediate be- 
 tween the ftarving foldier and the cultivator of the 
 foil ? A degree of order in the midft of unavoidable 
 violence — an appearance of juftice — a promife of 
 future retribution, and above all, the confoling 
 accents of the General reconciled that induftrious 
 order to a violation of property, which they faw 
 was inevitable, whilft the eflentials of difcipline 
 preferved the army from the evils of licentioufnefs: 
 It now confifted of a fmall but faithful band of ve- 
 terans, labouring under many difficulties, and fre- 
 quently without that degree of encouragement which 
 is derived from fuperior numbers — and we can never 
 forget thatattachmentto the perfons of their officers, 
 that confidence in the abilities of their chief, and 
 
 above 
 
( I^- ) 
 
 above all, that firmnefs in the caufe of their country, 
 which rendered them infenfible to the allurements 
 held out to them from New-York, and to the wretched 
 contraft of their fituation with that of the oppofite 
 army. 
 
 From fcenes which occurred immediately within 
 the dirediion of the General in Chief, let me for 
 a moment call your attention to thofe where other 
 Commanders adling under his aufpices, experi- 
 enced a refiftance lefs fatal to the American arms. 
 — Let it be remembered, that he availed himfelf in 
 the North of the confummate prudence of Gates, 
 aided by the impetuous courage of him, who can 
 no longer be mentioned with refpeft ; whilft Green, 
 whom his difcerning eye had feleded from a croud of 
 warriors, was extending fafety and protedion to the 
 cultivators of the South. And now, let us attend 
 to the laft concluding fcene of this eventful conteft 
 — Behold our General atYork-Town proving himfelf 
 equal to the extremities of either fortune, and as far 
 from being elated with a royal army and its enter- 
 prifing leader at his mercy, as he had been from fuf- 
 fering himfelf to be deprefled when retiring before 
 fuperior numbers through the Jerfies : Behold him 
 employ the laft moments of command in reconciling 
 our gallant foldiers to a difappointment, which their 
 long fuiFerings during the war had but ill prepared 
 them for ; fee him rendering back into the hands of 
 the reprefentatives of the people, thofe extenfive 
 powers with which he had been entrufted, account- 
 ing for and arranging with the moft fcrupulous exadl- 
 nefs, the various dilburfements which had pafTed 
 through his hands, taking a paternal, and a laft fare- 
 well of thofe to whofe deareft intereft he had fo long, 
 and fo fuccefsfully attended, and retiring.amidft the 
 bleftings of thoufands to the ftiades of private life. 
 How far removed is fuch conduc5l from that of the 
 
 hero 
 
( 13 ) 
 
 hero of the Englifh Republiciii thelaft century? How 
 far is it removed from thofe outrageous circumftances 
 which have lately changed the appearance of what 
 appeared to be the form of government in a diftant 
 country ! But let not our ideas of happinefs owe any 
 thing to the fatal miftakes and misfortunes of other 
 nations, let us not infult the afhes of our beloved 
 General by comparifons which would degrade him; 
 but let the imagination in queft of fimilar fentiments 
 and fituations carry us back to Timoleon converfing 
 with his fellow citizens in the fquares of Syracufe, 
 or to the illuftrious citizen of Genoa, who facrificed 
 all thoughts of aggrandizing himfelf to the virtuous 
 fatisfacflion of eftablirtiing liberty in his native coun- 
 try, aflerting, that the happinefs of feeing his fellow 
 citizens in pofleflion of freedom, was to him a full 
 reward for all his fervices. 
 
 It requires not much experience to know how 
 fallacious are thofe hopes which are founded upon 
 future occurrences, and how fhort is frequently the 
 duration of thofe comforts and enjoyments which we 
 have been moft defirous of attaining to. Scarcely 
 had our General re-affumed the peaceful avocations 
 of rural life, and returned to his farm like another 
 Cincinnatus, when the voice of his country was 
 once more to be attended to: Many very material 
 objefts were now difcovered to ha\ c been neglecfled, 
 or left incomplete in the formation of the firft con- 
 federacy, which though it had carried the United 
 States in triumph through the war, was yet extremely 
 inadequate to the purpofes of peace, and to that 
 energy of interior legiflation, which could alone 
 enfure the duration of thofe facred rights for which 
 we had contended. America was yet to aflume its 
 proper ftation amongft the nations of the earth, and 
 the people and the fovereigns of Europe were yet 
 to be taught to refped; the rifing Empire of the 
 
 Weft : 
 
( 14 ) 
 
 West : A convention of the States was therefore 
 called by general confent, and who fo proper to 
 prefide at luch a meeting was the general voice ; who 
 fo interefted in the political and civil welfare of our 
 common country as he whofe prudence had de- 
 fended and whofe valour had protefted it ? To 
 the conftitution of the government fo formed, 
 to its fuperiority in every refpedl over that which 
 had been produced amidft the extreme agita- 
 tion of the revolutionary war, and its proper 
 compound of thofe efficient parts which yet dif- 
 tinguifh the once parent ftate, where alone in 
 all Europe the footfteps of liberty may yet be traced, 
 I will not call your attention — much yet remains to 
 be faid of the ever refpefted fubjedlof this addrefs, 
 and my heart is oppreffed by that termination to 
 which I feel I am approaching. The happy confe- 
 quences which the new conftitution was produdiveof 
 are fenfibly felt by us all, and long may they continue 
 to be fo ; but admire, my fellow citizens, our fingu- 
 lar felicity in having had upon its firft eflay a Prefi- 
 dent who poffefled a weight of perfonal charafter 
 equal to all the difficulties of that extenfive depart- 
 ment — this alone raifed him far above the cavils of 
 the fadious, and the complaints of the ignorant; to 
 this alone, together with a confcioufnefs of his own 
 uprightnefs, could he have trufted, when overlook- 
 ing the prejudices of the moment, he took upon 
 him in conjundiion with the Counfellors which the 
 law had given him, to form such relations with for- 
 eign powers as he thought moft for our intereft, to 
 check with the hand of authority the interference of 
 foreign agents, to aflert his conftitutional right of 
 withholding fuch documents as in his judgement ap- 
 peared of a nature not to be communicated, and to 
 crufh without a moment's hefitation the firft appear- 
 ance of revolt. 
 
 It 
 
( 15 ) 
 
 It is proper in all nations that thofe who reprefent 
 the majefty of the people fliould be at times encir- 
 cled with the enfigns of authority, and that the 
 fplendourofthegovernmenttheyadminifterfhouldbe 
 in fome meafure apparent in their perfons : and here, 
 my fellow citizens let me call to your remembrance, 
 for we have poflefled hi mamongft us,let me cai 1 to you r 
 remembrance the plain, and yetdignified deportment 
 ofhim whofelofswedeplore — it wasnot atriumphant 
 General who came amongft us, nor yet the femblance 
 of a monarch ; it was the firft magiftrate of a free 
 people, it was a father who vifited his children, who 
 delighted in their carefles, and who kindly accepted 
 of their efforts to pleafe, and to entertain him. 
 With what jov was he not received, with what ar- 
 dour was he not addrefled by all ranks and orders of 
 people? And how readily did the public imagination 
 furround him with trophies of vitflory, and convert 
 the unadorned vehicle which conveyed him into a 
 car of triumph! Behold, faid they — but why fliould 
 I borrow the language of admiration ? No, let me 
 rather recall your minds to the melancholy truth, and 
 let us remember, that the father of his country now 
 lies mingled with the duft! the ornaments of eloquence 
 are here unneceflary, the fimple accents which pro- 
 ceed from the heart are alone fufficicnt — you feel for 
 yourfelves, your children, and your country. 
 
 A period was at length arrived when our general, 
 having filled the Prefidency for eight years, could 
 again retire to private life, to the fociety of a fmall 
 circle of friends, and to the purfuits of agriculture. 
 This interval however, was but of ftiort duration, 
 and we again behold him compelled to relinquifh his 
 moft earneft wifh, we fee him yield to the folicita- 
 tions of the refpeflable perfonage who had fucceeded 
 him in office, and to the demands of his country. 
 
 A tremendouspolitical phenomenon hadappeared 
 
 in 
 
( i6 ) 
 
 in France — the abufes of a government originally 
 good, the lavifh expenditure of public money, the 
 general difregard of religion and morality, which 
 creeping like a low-born mift, had enveloped by de- 
 grees all orders of the ftate; the cruel and mortifying 
 oppreffion under which a moftufeful part of thecom- 
 munity had long laboured, and the arts of interefted 
 and faftious individuals had efFefted a revolution — 
 the ancient monarchy was deflroyed, and a ferocious 
 democracy eftablifhed in its (lead. The monarch 
 was dragged to public execution, his family difperfed 
 or murdered after enduring every fort of humilia- 
 tion, and all the decencies of religion, nay religion 
 itfelf trampled upon, whilft every facred maxim 
 which flows from the rights of mankind, was made 
 to countenance licentioufnefs, to authorife violence, 
 to conceal the depravity of indifcriminate plunder, 
 and to embitter the unavoidable inequalities of life, 
 by infpiring the lower order of fociety with falfe 
 ideas and vain expectations. 
 
 Had France, potent in arms, improved by fcience, 
 and embelliflied by all the arts and elegances of life, 
 availed itfelf of its ancient form of government, of 
 which numerous traces were ftill to be found amidft 
 the abufes and corruptions of monarchy ; had its ar- 
 mies in their firil fuccefsful inroads into the neigh- 
 bouring ftates protefted the honor and property of 
 thofe who met them with offers of friendfhip and 
 fraternity, had they refrained from all interference 
 with the governments of diftant and unoffending 
 communities, defpotifm might have been driven from 
 the furface of the earth, and the caufe of liberty 
 rendered refpeftable in the eyes of all mankind: but 
 I need not attempt to inform you how far the reverfe 
 has taken place, you will of yourfelves remember 
 that the independence of the mod ancient common- 
 wealth in Europe, where the vivifying fpirit of in- 
 
 duftry 
 
( 17 ) 
 
 duftry had realized all that nature had denied, where a 
 few marfhy iflands at the extremity of the Adriatic 
 had by degrees become the feat of empire, and a 
 magnificent capital had arifen from the bofom of the 
 waves, has been bartered away for territory ; that 
 neither the moft undeviating neutrality, nor even a 
 ftate of unenviable poverty, has preferved Switzer- 
 land; that Italy has been ravaged with fireand fword, 
 unoffending fovereigns driven with ignominy from 
 amongft their people, and Rome, the venerable mif- 
 trefs of the Pagan and the Chriftian world, after having 
 been ftripped of what the barbarians of former times 
 had fpared, has been infulted with the cruel mockery 
 of ficflitious liberty. 
 
 Whilft the ftorm raged at a diftance we remained, 
 though not unmoved, yet filent fpe(5lators of the 
 awful fcene ; we lamented the misfortunes of thofe 
 lefs fortunately fituated than ourfelves, and we re- 
 gretted that a nation, whofe fympathy in the hour of 
 our diftrefs can never be forgotten, ftiould in its 
 progrefs towards freedom fo widely and fo fatally 
 deviate from that firm and temperate policy, which 
 could beft have enfured the attainment of it : but 
 the tempeft at length approached our coafts — already 
 had the fertile plains of a neighbouring ifland been 
 ftained with the blood of its wretched inhabitants, 
 already had fuch as efcaped the rui;) of their coun- 
 try, taken refuge in our cities, and communicated 
 their alarms upon a fubjedl which comes home to 
 the apprehenfions of us all ; faftion too was bufily 
 employed to bewilder the imagination of the people 
 with theoretical fpeculations in matters of gov- 
 ernment, and the ruling powers of France mifled 
 by fome appearance of difunion in the United States, 
 and intoxicated in their career of vidory, prefumed 
 fo far upon a temporary naval fuperiority as to at- 
 tempt the deftrudion of our commerce, whilft the 
 
 reprefentatives 
 
( i8 ) 
 
 reprefentatives of our government approaching 
 them with refped, but with the language and in the 
 attitude of freemen, were amufed with infidous 
 offers for a time, and then repulfed with difdain. 
 No refource was now left us but our courage and our 
 force ; a fleet was equipped, and the fons of Ameri- 
 ca were called upon once more to array themfelves 
 under the banners of their country, whilft the aged 
 warrior, who had conducted us through the former 
 war, now again buckled on his armour, and prepar- 
 ed him for the conteft at the head of his fellow citi- 
 zens : But it pleafed heaven to determine otherwife 
 — in the midft of theduties impofed upon him by the 
 new engagements he had contraded, in the midft of 
 thofe arrangements which were didlated by experi- 
 ence, and of thofe refledllons which originated in 
 the pureft patriotifm, he was taken from us by that 
 all powerful hand which regulates thefateof Empires. 
 Let it however alleviate our forrow to refled, that 
 he, who had walked uprightly before God, who had 
 fulfilled the various duties of public and private life, 
 may have furveyed unmoved the approach of the 
 king of terrors. He has clofed the long glories of 
 an illuftrious life with a peaceful .death, and refts 
 forever. 
 
 And here, my fellow citizens, I will conclude 
 with calling your attention to the laft publicly de- 
 clared fentiments of our beloved General — confider 
 them as proceeding from a father to his children — 
 and reprefent to yourfelves, that it is his voice which 
 calls to you from the tomb : — 
 
 " Let the union of the ftates, and the reciprocity of 
 " interefts be the ground work of our political exift- 
 "ence — let us difcountenance all illegal aflociations 
 '* — let the illiberal fpirit of party be forever banifhed 
 " — let juft and amicable feelings, devoid of all partial- 
 " ities and antipathies regulate our conducft towards 
 
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 " all nations — let us guard againft the interference 
 " of foreign agents in our internal concerns — but 
 " above all, let us be convinced, that no form of 
 " government whatfoever can long exift which is not 
 " founded upon virtuous principles, and no policy 
 " be in the end fuccefsful, which is independent of 
 " religion and morality." 
 
 Such was the laft advice of him whofe hope of 
 fame was built upon the glory and advantage of his 
 native country, fuch were his enlightened fentiments, 
 and if they acquire force, as I truft they do, from 
 the melancholy circumftance which recalls them to 
 our attention; if we cherifh them as connedled with 
 all that is right and honorable, vain will have been the 
 triumph of death over our illustrious chief: — it has 
 removed him from a world recommended indeed by 
 friends, by fortune and by greatnefs, but befet with 
 many ills, and much inquietude — it has removed 
 him from tranfitory objeds to the rewards of im- 
 mortality. He lives — he will forever live in the 
 hearts and minds of all good men, and the name of 
 Washington, infcribed amidft thofe of the great 
 benefacflors of mankind, and rendered ftill more 
 venerable by the lapfe of ages, will defcend with 
 never fading glory from generation to generation. 
 
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