Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . he German Lutheran Ciiurch,in memory of General George Washington, on Thursday, the26th instant, and that an oration be prepared at the requestof Congress, to be delivered before botli Houses that day ; andthat the president of the Senate, and the speaker of the Houseof Representatives, be desired to request one of the membersof Congress to prepare and deliver the same; third, that thepeople of the United States should be recommended to wearcrape on their left arm as mourning for thirty days: fourth,that the president
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . he German Lutheran Ciiurch,in memory of General George Washington, on Thursday, the26th instant, and that an oration be prepared at the requestof Congress, to be delivered before botli Houses that day ; andthat the president of the Senate, and the speaker of the Houseof Representatives, be desired to request one of the membersof Congress to prepare and deliver the same; third, that thepeople of the United States should be recommended to wearcrape on their left arm as mourning for thirty days: fourth,that the president of the United States should direct a copyof the resolutions to be transmitted to Mrs. Washington, withwords of condolence, and a request that her husbands remainsmight be interred at the capitol of the republic. On the 30tli of December Congress further resolved, that itshould be recommended to the people of the Union to assem-ble on the succeeding 22d of February, to testify their griefby suitable eulogies, orations, and discourses, or by publicprayers. 332 MOUNT VERNON. UKNEKAL UbiNKY LEE. In with one of the foregoing resohitions, GeneralHenry Lee, of Virginia, then a member of Congress, was in-vited to pronounce an oration on the 26th. He consented, andthe Lutheran Church in Fourth street, above Arch, in Phila-delphia, the largest in the city, was crowded on that man in the Congress could have been chosen better fittedfor the service than General Lee. He had served his countrynobly as an officer of cavalry during the war for independence,and from boyhood had been a special favorite of wag a son of that Lowland Beauty who won the heart ofyoung Washington, and drew sentimental verses from his the war he was beloved by his chief for his manlyand soldierly qualities, and he was an ever welcome guest at AXD ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 333 Mount Vernon, where he was on terms of the gieatest intimacywith Washington and his family. Mr. Irvi
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