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 . gratitude forhis brilliant public services, love to contemplate him as a personage divinely ordainedand appointed to open the way, not only for civil and religious liberty in America, buteverywhere among the oppressed of humanity. He left the quietude and enjoyments of a rural life when great political emergenciesneeded a capable advisor, actor and leader whose sentiments were known to be unre-servedly opposed to royal impositions an
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 . gratitude forhis brilliant public services, love to contemplate him as a personage divinely ordainedand appointed to open the way, not only for civil and religious liberty in America, buteverywhere among the oppressed of humanity. He left the quietude and enjoyments of a rural life when great political emergenciesneeded a capable advisor, actor and leader whose sentiments were known to be unre-servedly opposed to royal impositions and exactions and in favor of home rule andindependence ; and stepping forth on the scene of action was hailed with acclamationas the maneminently qualified for the momentous and responsible duties before him. OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 45 By his prompt and patriotic response to a common call he won the popular cofidenceand esteem, and by his wise and prudent counsels many discordant elements wereharmonized and brought into subjection to the cause he had espoused. But his newsphere of action was to be amid perplexities and trials which might have discouraged. PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON,From a Painting by Gilbert Stuart, many a brave commander. His mission was to hastily organize into armies, raw re-cruits from the peaceful avocations of life and direct them against the veteran soldiersof his king, to dispute their invasion of colonial soil, and while performing this diffi-cult service he was everywhere to move among and come into contact with stealthyfoes among his own countrymen who were committed to the cause of royalty and thebetrayal of the colonists. 46 SOME OLD HISTORIC LANDMARKS He was not a soldier because of his fondness for tinsel, parade or mere military glory,but because of the exigencies of the times in which he lived. After these exigencies hadpassed he gladly yielded up all investiture of military authority and dropped back tothe enjoyments of the calm delights of peace
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