Newhanover County NcArchives News.....Wilmington Mourns the Death of  Washington January 2, 1800
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Hall's Wilmington Gazette   Jan. 2, 1800 January 2, 1800
       WILMINGTON MOURNS THE DEATH OF GEN. WASHINGTON
   Monday morning last, on the receipt of the following melancholy and 
distressing account, the citizens of this town, penetrated with the most heart-
felt sensations of grief for the loss of their beloved fellow citizen went 
into mourning -- all the vessels in the harbor wore their colors at half mast
 -- the stores and shops were immediately shut up and no business was 
transacted the remainder of the day.
  "Baltimore, Dec. 17 -- Of all the disagreeable engagements which have 
devolved on the Editor of the "American", none have ever occurred equal to the 
announcement of the DEATH of the most virtuous statesman, the most able 
General, and the most inflexible patriot, that even dignified human nature:
         GEORGE WASHINGTON
the hero, patriot sage, is no more.
   This amiable character, this virtuous statesman, this inflexible patriot, 
yielded up his pure and uncontaminated soul at about eleven o'clock on 
Saturday night last -- about 24 hours proceeding which he was seized with a 
violent inflammation in the throat, and expired to, without a sign, without a 
groan, on the following evening. Oh Readers! a more melancholy and distressing 
event never occurred to thy Country -- bereft in the trying moment, of one of 
our greatest advocates of thy political independence -- deprived at one stroke 
by the inflexible tyrant, Death, of the admiration of the world, thy grief 
must be inconsolable.
   By the dispensation of Divine Providence, is the United States deprived of 
the brightest star that ever illuminated its political horizon -- by this 
demand of the unerring will of Heaven, is the world deprived of a man, who was 
the ornament of humanity, and whose illustriouos deeds reflected honor on the 
author of creation
   'Oh Washington! thou hero, patriot, sage
    Friend of all climates, pride of every age
    Were thine the laurels which the word could raise
    The mighty harvest were penurious praise.'"

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