Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . at; not sigh-ing, as many warriors had done before him, that therewere no more victories to achieve, but rejoicing in thecoming of the blessed reign of peace. His mission asa soldier had been grandly accomplished and he waswell content to await its beneficent results. As a victor he was magnanimous, lenient and for-bearing—never vaunted of his military prowess; and ofall the pictorial representations which adorned hisrooms at Mount V
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . at; not sigh-ing, as many warriors had done before him, that therewere no more victories to achieve, but rejoicing in thecoming of the blessed reign of peace. His mission asa soldier had been grandly accomplished and he waswell content to await its beneficent results. As a victor he was magnanimous, lenient and for-bearing—never vaunted of his military prowess; and ofall the pictorial representations which adorned hisrooms at Mount Vernon, not one of them representedany of the revolutionary scenes in which he hadfigured. There have been soldiers who have achieved mightiervictories in the field and made conquests more nearlycorresponding to the boundlessness of selfish ambition,statesmen who have been connected with more start-ling upheavals of society; but it is the greatness ofWashington that in public trusts he used power solelyfor the public good ; that he was the life and moder-ator and stay of the most momentous revolution inhuman affairs; its moving impulse and its restraining. s human attairs; its moving impulse ana its restraining ^ <^^ v power. Combining the centripetal and centrifugal ^otf n^ V\ forces in their utmost strength, and in perfect relations, ^ft ^ ^^ with creative grandeur of instinct, he held ruin in check and renewed and perfected the institutions of his country. Finding the colonies disconnected and dependent, he left them such a united and well ordered commonwealth as no visionary had believed to be possible. So that it has been truly said, he was as fortunate as great and good. This also is the praise of Washington, that never in the tide of time has any fA ^ man lived who had in so great a degree the almost \^^ divine faculty to command the confidence of his fellow men and rule the willing. Wherever he became known, in his family, his neighborhood, his county, his native st
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