A discourse delivered at Woodbury, in New-Jersey, on the twenty-second of February, eighteen hundred : before the citizens of Gloucester County, assembled to pay funeral honours to the memory of General George Washington : agreeably to a recommendation of Congress, as announced by the President, in his proclamation of the 6th of January last

A discourse delivered at Woodbury, in New-Jersey, on the twenty-second of February, eighteen hundred : before the citizens of Gloucester County, assembled to pay funeral honours to the memory of General George Washington : agreeably to a recommendation of Congress, as announced by the President, in his proclamation of the 6th of January last

Sacred to the memory of Washington

Philadelphia : Printed by John Ormrod, 1800.

32 p. ; 21 cm.

923.173 W319 croe 1800 MB

(OCoLC)08377970

"... when Great Britain had acknowledged the independence of the United States, and the regular troops were no longer necessary; with a magnanimity, and rectitude of heart, rarely found in the history of man, he disbanded the army, & voluntarily gave in his resignation and, without accepting any compensation for his long meritorious services, or desiring any pre-eminence above a people whom he had so highly obliged; retired, like Cincinnatus and Doria, from the splendid and captivating scenes of victory, power and renown, to the plain and humble walks of private life ..."--p. 12-13.
Library has 2 copies: c. 1 (L2010F99); c. 2 (L2014G37): no. [16] in bound volume of 25 eulogies and orations on the death of George Washington ("Sacred to the memory of Washington": call no. 923.173 W319 sac 1800 MB); gift in memory of C.A. Philippe von Hemert, New York State Society of the Cincinnati, by his three sons, 2014.

Sabin 17581
Evans 37270

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