Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
Washington Defeated.

Rev. Theodore Parker, not long since, ex
pressed. his qualification at the fact that the
God-like. Washington would sometimes gel
angry and swear like ordinary human beings
Upon the same principle, it may afford some
consolation, we have thought, to common peo
pie, to learn from the following extract, that
the Father of his Country, was once spoon.
ey youngster- went counting and got the
mitten like other people:
\ writer in the New York Century says
OF the lady who won Washington's young
heart, and whose father rejected the tall young
soldier, because he had not a carriage for his
daughter to ride about in
81 shall 60 back in her life number of
years, and speak Of the event which has made
her name one of interest
Before she became Mrs. Edward Amber,
she was called Mary Cory. Her father was
Wilson Cory, Esq, of 'Celeys,' in the County
of Elizabeth City, descended from the noble
family of Humsden, in England. His relative,
Col: Archibald Cory, of 'Ampthill,' in Ches-
terfield, was at his DEATH the heir apparent to
the earldom. The worthy old gentleman
seems, from all we know of him, to have been
40 PiOu co tiC NOuSy > VI luC ana
to have thought his family the noblest in the
land. lie lived In great estate, with chariot
and horses, plate and velvet and embroidery, a
worthy gentleman of the old school, fully salts
fled with the order Of things enjoying Sc
renely the good gifts of Providence His
beautiful daughter was a great heiress, and
had many suitors-the accident which befell
one of them has made her remembered in
nlyc IIn e
high character. relative of George William
Fairfax, Esq, who lived at 'Belvoir,' on the
Potomac and here he met with Miss Cory,
who came to visit Mrs. Fairfax, her elder Sis
ter. The young man at once proceeded to
fall in love, which he did with an ardor char
acteristic of his nature. When Miss Cory
went back home to 'Celeys on James River,
he followed her like courageous gallant, and
laid open siege to the fair fortress. In the
good old times, however, something more was
necessary than the consent of the young lady,
and so the youth duly asked private inter
view with the awful old lord of the manor,
who listened to him silently throughout.
When the lover had finished, Mr.. Cory rose
made him a very low bow, and said that if
this were young Mr. Washington's:: errand at
'Celeys,' his visit had better terminate; his
daughter shad been accustomed to ride in
chariot And with this allusion to the poor
condition of the younger son, the interview
terminated.
Young Washington bowed and went away,
and in due time married Martha cambridge
Gusts, who 'resembled Miss Cory,' says my
authority, as much as twin sister ever did
another'
But this old tradition does not end here
Many years fled away-Mary Cory was Mrs.
Ambler-and her discarded suitor was the
man who had just received the sword of Lord
CORVALLIS at Yorktown; whom the whole
civilized world hailed as greatest among the
great-'the foremost man, not only of Ameri-
ca, but Of all tie world
He passed through the old metropolis,
Williamsburg, at the he,d of his victorious
troops, and the people were crazy with Joy
and alteration almost. The vast multitude
nearly prevented his horse from proceeding
the calm statue on horseback passed on Sc
renely. All at once he perceived at a window,
or in the crowd, his old love, Mary Cory lie
raised his sword and saluted her profoundly.
She faintcd''
Thus the story is told and Il must have
had truthful foundation At least.