Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . Tliomas Mifflin, the president of that body, accompanying theact by a brief speech. This was responded to by Mifflin. Thegreat Leader of the Continental Armies, now a private citizen,retired, followed by the audience; and the curtain fell uponthe last solemn act in the great drama of the war for independ-ence. Washington now hastened to Mount Yernon, accompaniedby many friends, as an escort of honor, among whom wasColonel Walker, one of the aides of the Baron Steuben, bywhose hand he sent a letter to Governor Clinton,
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . Tliomas Mifflin, the president of that body, accompanying theact by a brief speech. This was responded to by Mifflin. Thegreat Leader of the Continental Armies, now a private citizen,retired, followed by the audience; and the curtain fell uponthe last solemn act in the great drama of the war for independ-ence. Washington now hastened to Mount Yernon, accompaniedby many friends, as an escort of honor, among whom wasColonel Walker, one of the aides of the Baron Steuben, bywhose hand he sent a letter to Governor Clinton, the firstwhich he wrote at his home after his retirement. In it hesaid: The scene is at last closed. I am now a private citizenon the banks of the Potomac. I feel myself eased of a load ofpublic care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 119 cultivating tlie affections of good men, and in tlie practice ofthe domestic virtnes. It was on Christmas eve, 1783, that Wasliington, a privatecitizen, arrived at Monnt Venion, and laid aside forever the. Washingtons military clothes. military clothes which he had worn perhaps through more thanlialf the campaigns of the war just ended. Around them clus-tered many interesting associations, and they were preservedwith care during the remaining sixteen years of his life. Andthey are still preserved, in a condition almost as perfect aswhen the illustrious owner hung; them in his wardrobe for the 120 MOUNT VERNON last time. They are in a glass ease, with other inernentos ofthe Fathek of his Country, in the great model hall of thePatent Office at Washington city. The coat is made of deepblue cloth, faced with buff, with large plain gilt buttons. Thewaistcoat and breeches a:e made of the same kind of buffcloth as the facings of the coat. On the same occasion, Washington laid aside his battle-sword which he had worn throughout all the later years ofthe war. It, too, hung at Mount Yernon for almost twentyyears, and is c
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