Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . patriotism of Washingtonwere to be severely tested, and in a mostunexpected manner, in connection with theform of government to be adopted by theUnited States. The English governmentwas rega
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . patriotism of Washingtonwere to be severely tested, and in a mostunexpected manner, in connection with theform of government to be adopted by theUnited States. The English governmentwas regarded by many of the strongestAmerican minds as, in most respects, amodel one ; and by many persons the En-glish form of a constitutional monarchywas decided, esjiecially by some of thearmy officers, to be the most promising,and thus far the most successful, experi-ment in government, and the one most this scheme called a secret meeting, andfinally determined on the title of King,and Washington was informed of the spurned the gilded bribe of a kingscrown, and promptly and sternly rebukedthe abettors of the scheme in the followingletter addressed to their leader : Sir,—With a mixture of great sur-prise and astonishment, I have read withattention the sentiments you have sub-mitted to my perusal. Be assured, sir,no eccurrence in the course of this war hasgiven me more jiainful sensations than. WASHINGTONS RESIGNATION. likely to be adopted by America upon duedeliberation. Universal dissatisfaction wasfelt with the proceedings and conduct ofcongress as a governing power, and there-fore some agency superior to that, and ofcontrolling prerogative, was proposed,—ahead, like the English sovereign, withproper safeguards against , of course, indicated Wash-ington as that head, and the next ques-tion naturally arose—under what officialtitle should such a head rule ? The officersaround Newburgh who were associated in your information of there being such
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