A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . WASHINGTONS BEDROOM, MT. VERNON, IN WHICH HE DIED. 166 WASHINGTON, ADAMS, AND JEFFERSON. prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing ?whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which no
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . WASHINGTONS BEDROOM, MT. VERNON, IN WHICH HE DIED. 166 WASHINGTON, ADAMS, AND JEFFERSON. prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing ?whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. For this you have every inducement of sympathy and mteiebt. Citizens, by birth 01 choice, ot a com m o n counti),that. THE MOTHER OP -WASHINGTON HE-CEIVING MAEQUIS LAFAYETTE. Previous to his departure for Europe, in the fall of 1784, the Marquis de La-/feyette repaired to Fredericlisburg to pay his parting respects to Wasliingtonsmother and to ask her blessing Conducted by one of her grandsons he approached the house, when,the young gentleman observing, There, sir, is my grandmother, the Marquis :beheld, working in her garden, olad in domestic-made clothes and her gray COUUtry liaS H right tO COU-head covered by a plain straw hat. the mother of his hero, his friend, and a ii? i* rpi countrys preserver. The lady .saluted him kindly, observing, Ah, Marquis, you Centrate yOUT aneCClOnS. ±llQsee an old woman; but come. I can make you welcome to my poor dwelling i-irjiyip *-»-p AaTFT?TPA1V wllipllwithout the parade of changing my dress. belongs to you in your na-tional capacity, must also exalt the just pride of patriotism more than anyappellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of
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