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NOME, ALASKA. FEBRUARY 25, 1018.
He, who Wastes a Crust of
Bread, Prolongs the War.
George Washington
Uncle Sam is refreshing Brother
John's memory in reference to George
Washington.
(Concluded. )
When the Federal government met
at Philadelphia in May 1787 to frame
the present constitution he was pres
ent, as a delegate from Virginia, tho
much against his will; and a unani
mous vote at once made him the
presiding Officer. He took no part in
the debates, however, beyond such
suggestive hints as Ills proposal to
ftmeind a. restriction of the standing
army to 5,000 men fly forbidding any
enemy to invade the United States
with more than 3,000. He approved
the constitution which was decided up.
/m, believing, as ho said, ‘that it was
ilie best constitution which could lie
obtained at that epoch, and that this or
a dissolution awaits our choice, and js
the only alternative.” All his influ
ence was given to secure its ratifica
tion, and his influence was probably
decisive. When it had been ratified,
and the time came to elect a president,:
there was no more host Station than if
the country had been a theocracy. The,
office of president had been “cut to'
fit the measure of (f orge Washing- j
ton,” and no one t'a.1 i of any other;
person for it. The uu , ad,mils vote'
of the electors, made him the first
president of the United States; their
unanimous vote re-elected him in 1792
33; and, even after he had positively
refused to serve for a third term, two
electors obstinately voted for him in
1796-97.
The public events of his presidency
are given elsewhere (see United States
vol. XXIII. 752-755.) One can hardly
follow them without receiving the con
viction that the sudden success of the
new system was due mainly to the J
existence at that time of such a charac
ter as Washington. He held the two na
tural parties aimrf, and prevented
party contest until the new form of
government had been firmly establish- j
cd. it seems hardly possible that the
final results should have been baulked,
even if "iron and blood” had been
necessary to bring it about. It would
>■■ unwise to attribute the quiet at-1
tainment of the result to the political
sense of the American people alone, !
or to use it as an historical preced
ent for the voluntary assumption of
such a risk again, without the ad
vantage of such ii. political factor as j
Washington.
No greater mistake could be made, ,
however, than to think that the in
fluence of the president was fairly
appreciated during his term of office.
He attempted to balance party against
party, to divide his cabinet between
them, and to neutralize the effects of
parties in that way. The consequence
was that the two leading members of
the cabinet soon occupied the position to
use the words of one of them, of “two
game-cocks in a pit.” The uncon
scious drift of Washington's mind was
toward the Federal party; his letters
to La Fayette and Henry in December
1798 and January 1799, are found to.
make that evident. When the Repub
lican party was formed, about 1793,
it could not have boon expected that
its loaders would long submit with
patience to the continual interposition
of Washington's name and influence
between themselves and their oppon
ents; but they maintained a calm ex
terior. Some of their followers were
less discreet. The president’s procla
mation of neutrality between France
and Groat Hritian excited them to an
ger ; his support of Jay’s treaty with
Great Britain roused them to fury.
Forged letters purporting to show his
desire to abandon tho revolutionary
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he was ac
n his salary;
he guillotine
^appear; some
father of his
for his benefit beg
spoke of him as the "si
country.” The attacks embittered the
close of his term of service; he declared,
in a cabinet meeting in 1793, that
“he had never repented but once hav
ing slipped the moment of resigning
his office and' that was every moment
since.” Indeed, the most unpleasant
portions of Jefferson’s Ana are those
in which, with an air of phyohological
dissection he details the storms of pas
sion into wich the president was hur
ried by the newspaper attacks upon
him.
These attacks, however, came from
a very small fraction of the politicians;
the people neve r wavered in their de
votion to the president and his elec
tion would have been unanimous in
1796, as in 1789 and 1792, if he had
been willing to serve.
All accounts agree that Washington
was of imposing presence. He meas
ured just 6feet when prepared for
burial; but his height, in’his prime, as
given in his orders for clothing from
London, was 3 inches more. La Fay
ette says that his hands were “the
largest he ever saw on a man.” Cur
tis says that his complection was "fair,
but considerably florid.” His weight
was about 220 pounds. The varius and
widely-differing portraits of him find
exhaustive treatment in the seventh
volume of Winsor’s Narrative and Crit
ical History of the United States.
The editor thinks that “the favorite
profile has been unquestionably Hou
don’s, with Stuart’s canvass for the
full face, and probably Trumbull's for
the figure.” Stuart’s face, however,
gives the popular notion of Washington,
though it has always been a subject of
curious speculation to some minds
how much of the calm and benign ex
pression of the face was due to the
shape of Washington's false teeth.
Washington was childless; said the
people of his time, he was the father
only of- his country. Collateral
branches of the family have given the
Lees, the Curtises, and other famlies
a claim to an infusion of the blood;
but no direct decendants of Washing
tor can claim his honors, or disgrace
his name. His estate of Mount Vernon
was acquired in 1558 by an association,
and has been practically national
property ever since.
Retiring from the presidency in
1797, Washington resumed the plan
tation life which he most loved, the
society of his family, and the care of
his slaves. He had resolved some
time before never to obtain another
slave, and “wished from his soul” that
his state could he persuaded to abol
ish slavery; “ it might prevent milch
future mischief;” He was too old,
however, to attempt further innova
tions. In 1798 he was made command
ed-in-chief of the provisional army
raised in expectation of open war with
France, and was fretted almost beyond
endurance by the quarrels of Federal
ist politicians about the distribution of
commissions. Jn the midst of his mili
tary preparations, lie was struck down
by sudden illness, which lasted but for!
a day, and he died at Mount Vernon. \
December 14, 1799.
The third of the series of resolutions
introduced in the house of representa
tives five days after his death, by
John Marshall, and passed unanimous
ly states exactly, if a trifle rhetori
cally, the position of Washington in
American history; “first in war, first
in peace, and first in the hearts of his
countrymen.”
Washington's disorders was an oede
matous affection of the wind-pipe
contracted by careless exposure during
a ride in a* snow-storm, and aggravated
by neglect afterwards, and by such
contemporary remedies as excessive
bleedings, gargles of “molasses, vine
gar and butter” and -vinegar and sage
tea,” which ‘almost suffocated him,”
and a blister of cantharides on the
tjhroat. He died without theatrical
adieus; his last words were only bus
iness directions, affectionate remem
brances to relatives, and repeated
apologies to the physicians and attend
ants for the trouble he was giving
them. Just before he died, says his
secretary, Mr. Lear, he felt his own
pulse; his countenance changed; the
attending physician placed his hand
over the eyes of the dying man, “and
he expired without a struggle or a
sigh.’
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Any complete oioeography of books
relating to Washington would be vo
luminous. Lives have been written by
W]eems, Marshall (1804-7,) Ramsey
(1807,) A. Bancroft (1826) and Irving
(1855). See also Spark’s Writings of
Washington (1834-37); Rush’s Domes
tic Life of Washington (1857); G. W.
Curtis’ Recollections of Washington
(I860); Baker’s Character Portrait of
Washington (1887); Science, December
Jl, 1885 (an attempt to make a com
posite portrait of Washington); Will
sons Narrative and critical History of
the United States (editors article);
Bancroft’s United States (firuil revi
sion); Schoulcr’s United States; M’
Master’s United States. (A.J.)
(Quoted from pages 187-8-9 and 10
Vol. XXIV. Encyclopoedia Britannica.)
NOT NECESSARY.
Mrs Barton (to a small da-.tghter
-aying prayers)—“A little louder,
clear, J can’t hear.”
Daughter—-'‘Yes, but I'm not
speaking to yen.”
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Sergeant Murphy, Patient No.
27.—“The docther said thot ol
nn.iaht have a little tonic now. How
about beer? Thot's a foine tonic
ye know.”
Nurse O’F’vnn—“No, Pat — that’s
Teutonic.”
WEATHER REPORT.
U. S. Weather Bureau.
February 24, 6 A. M.
Temperature—Max. S Min. 0.
Barometer—2 0.2 4 9 inches.
Weather—Clear.
Wind —Calm.
Precipitation—None.
February 24, 4:45 P. M.
T empenPm e — Max; 12 Min. 5.
Baroruoter --29.212 -inches.
Weather—Yj.ow.
Wind—N. W. 10 miles per hour.
Frecipitation— .01 inches.
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They will probably need picking
over about the first, of March. .The
price will then be .$5.00 per crate.
If purchased this month the price
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keep them in warm storage for you
until called for.
NOME GROCERY CO.
See Miss Oestreich. Opp. Post Office.
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* “demon rum” and the flood gates < f righteous antagonism against
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