. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. elves had freedand the nation they themselves had made; it was a word inwarning, a word in advice and a word in love. It imploredthem to be patriotic, to be united, to be brothers, to beAmericans ! And yet, though the loving and helpful words of thisnoble man were written to his countrymen in affection, infaith, in hope, and in the desire to strengthen and benefitthem, the Farewell Address was laughed at and criticisedand pulled to pieces and called all sorts of names by someof those very Americans who needed, more than
. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. elves had freedand the nation they themselves had made; it was a word inwarning, a word in advice and a word in love. It imploredthem to be patriotic, to be united, to be brothers, to beAmericans ! And yet, though the loving and helpful words of thisnoble man were written to his countrymen in affection, infaith, in hope, and in the desire to strengthen and benefitthem, the Farewell Address was laughed at and criticisedand pulled to pieces and called all sorts of names by someof those very Americans who needed, more than all others,to read and heed it. To-day their memories are unhonored,their words are lost, their names are forgotten; and,, thoughthey may have been honest men and really meant all themean and spiteful things they said, it is for us to rememberthat the life of a really good man can be made unhappy bythose who should think before they speak, but do not; andthat the tongue of the slanderer is sometimes as sharp andhurtful as the dagger of the assassin. But, more than all,. IfOIV THE GENERAL GOT HIS DISCHARGE. i6i can we feel glad to think that neither slander nor wicked-ness nor meanness have been able to take away one jotfrom, the name and fame of George Washington. —-^ CHAPTER XII. HOW THE GENERAL GOT HIS DISCHARGE. AMID tears and cheers and the warm good-byes of friends•^^ and followers, George Washington laid aside the caresof office and went back to his farm in Virginia — thatMount Vernon farm toward which his thoughts and desireshad so often turned through the eight years of his busy andanxious life as president. He found plenty to do. Mount Vernon, in his absence,had been taken care of by an overseer, but things had beenallowed to run down, or, at least, not kept up to Washing-tons idea of what was right; so the first thing he did wastorepair and improve things. I find myself in the situation,nearly, of a new beginner, he wrote to one of his friends. I am surrounded b
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