Lanterna Rally

Author: George Washington Parke Custis

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781230034546

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...it of so feeling a character as at the bridge of Trenton. That was, indeed, a classic ground. It was there, on a frozen surface, that, in 1776, was achieved the glorious event which restored the fashfaili_ng fortunes of liberty, and gave to her drooping eagles a renewed and bolder flight What a. contrast to the chief must have been this spot in 1789, when no longer "a mercenary foe aimed against him the fatal blow," when no more was heard I' See the eoi-respondence between Wnahington and young Custis during the collegiate days of the latter, appended to the Mnnoir. t A more minute account of Vnhington'l reception at Trenton, when on his way to New York, In the lprlng of I789, to he Inaugurated the tint president of the United Staten, will be found In another chapter. the roar of combat, the shouts of the victors, the groans of the dying--but the welcome of thousands to liberty's great defender--the heartfelt homage of freemen to the deiiverer of his country. The president alighted from his carriage, and approached the bridge uncovered.' As he passed under the triumphal arch, a. cherub, in the form of a young girl, perched amid the foliage that covered it, crowned him with laurel which will never fade, while the sweetest minstreisy from human lips filled the air, as the hero trod on his way of flowers. Washington then shed tears--tears of the deepest emotion. The merit of these appropriate and classical decorations is due to the late Mrs. Stockton, of Princeton, a lady of superior literary oequirements and refined taste. She was familiarly called tluchcss, front her elegance and dignity of manners. She was a most ardent patriot during the War of the Revolution, and, with the Stockton family, was marked for...