The College Echo. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 1, Ed. 1, July 1889 Page: 3 of 18
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THE COLLEGE ECHO.
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brilliant exercises. To-day, St. Mary’s Academy is holding its annual
graduating festival, and the University is likewise engaged in bringing
the school year to a happy close. These exercises are all on the most
elaborate and imposing scale, and monopolize the attention of our
citizens generally.”
With the State University, St. Edward’s College, St.
Mary’s Academy, the Stewart Female Seminary, the Hood
Female Seminary, the Tillotson Institute for colored people,
the Deaf Mute and Blind Asylum Schools, and two pros-
perous, commercial colleges, besides the High School, St.
Mary’s Parochial School, and the public schools—all pros-
perous and well attended—two daily papers in English, the
livest weekly German paper in Texas, under the manage-
ment of Judge Schuetze; two medical monthlies—Daniel's
Texas Medical Journal, and the Southern Journal oj Home-
opathy, (the two last are monthly magazines), Austin may
well be called “the Athens of Texas.”
1779.—WASHINGTON.—IS SO.
Fugit furoris improba saevitas,
Fugit nefandus Mars, populi novos
Tuentur heroas. Teguntur
Foedere nobilium micautes
Fuses, receduut signa cruentia,
Ft pads auctor inviolabilis
Vires adaugens voce, facto,
Iustat, et illico crescit arbor,
Quae fixa fibris ima tenet globi,
Dum jam videntur undique brachia
Coeleste curvamen replere ;
Haec memorare animus triumphat.
Qualis potestas sollicito duci
Confisa! Divus qui bene dirigit
Gentis gubernaclum, vocari
Debet et Officium diorum.
Nonne excitatus efficiet magis
Mortalis? His nunc jam populus sui
Juris, solutus vinculis quae
Pondere duro humeros premebant,
Grates tibi, O magnanimis Pater!—
Ostendit orbi quid valet et facit
Cupita Fibertas, quid egit
Natio libera Americana.
Centum per annos uobilis ista gens
Se praestat usque natio qualis baud
Sub sole prodetur—sit una—
Quae parilis opibus sit isti.
THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.
[An Essay, Delivered at the Commencement Fxercises, June 17.]
On the 30th of April we celebrated the first centennial
anniversary of Washington’s inauguration as first President
of the United States of America—the “United States” by
excellence. Since that first inauguration day, one hundred
years ago, our country has made immense strides in natural
progress, power, and wealth; and the memory of the great
revolutionary commander, afterwards first President of the
United States, who was “first in war” as well as “first in
peace, is to-day enshrined in the hearts of his grateful
countrymen. .God grant that it may ever continue thus!
When the American people forget the noble personal exam-
ple and glorious deeds of Washington, they will no longer
be worthy of liberty,—they will lose it, and our grand Re-
public will be a thing of the past, living only in the records
of history, with its prototypes the Achaean League and the
Roman Republic. Rome had its Caesar; France, its Na-
poleon: Washington possessed the best attributes of both,
without the faults of either. His majestic figure stands out
boldly in the white light of the past, a colossus of moral
grandeur and patriotism. “First in war”—the British in-
vader ceased to sneer at Washington’s mob of ununiformed
rebels, and began to dread the man who could play about
and outgeneral their ablest commanders. Frederick the
Great of Prussia said : “This young American general is
opening a new chapter in the art of war. England has no
man to match him.” When the treaty of Paris had secured
our national independence, and the army was disbanded
without pay, the subordinate officers and soldiers formed a
plot to march on the capital and demand satisfaction of Con-
gress. Washington discovered the plot, and by great effort
averted the danger. At his solicitation, Congress redeemed its
pledges, and the army was quietly disbanded. Assembling
his officers, Washington bade them farewell, and went to
Annapolis, where Congress was in session, resigned his
commission as commander-in-chief, and modestly retired to
private life. But he was not long to enjoy this coveted
rest.
The Articles of Confederation of the thirteen States soon
proved defective and inadequate. Nearly all power was
reserved by the several States, leaving Congress unable to
act. Congress could not collect a dollar. It could contract
debts, but it had no power to raise money. It could declare
anything, but it could do nothing. Foreign nations hesita-
ted to make treaties with such a loose and feeble confedera-
tion-union it could not be called. Washington said, “We
are one nation to-day, and thirteen to-morrow; who will
treat with us on these terms.” The idea of remodelling
the government originated with the retired commander-in-
chief; he was appointed chairman of a convention appointed
to revise the articles, and which at the end of four months’
deliberation, presented for acceptance in their stead that
masterpiece of statesmanship, the Constitution of the United
States, which formed the thirteen loosely connected States
into a solid Union.
Such, in brief, are some of the leading events in the pub-
lic life of our first President. Let us glance at the progress
and future prospects of the country and government which
Washington so much aided to establish and solidify.
Republican government, or a representative government
of the people, for the people, and conducted by the people
through their representatives, is still only an experiment.
Far-reaching minds have said that a republic such as ours
was an impossibility. After a somewhat protracted trial, it
was found impossible to hold the Achaean League together;
lacking unity, it finally succumbed, and became tributary
to Rome. The great Roman Republic, in its turn, existed
for nearly five hundred years when it fell a prey to the ambi-
tion of its own citizens.
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The College Echo. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 1, Ed. 1, July 1889, newspaper, July 1889; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1004862/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting St. Edward’s University.