Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-09-04

that characterized the author OF the Dec
laration Of Independence. 1t N sad hut
true, that Jefferson and Washington were
not on the best Of terms personally. yet
this did not warp the formers Judgment
of the high character and services OF the
father OF his country. Writing OF him, In
1914, Jefferson said
His mind was great and powerful without
being Of the very first order. his penetration
strong, though not acute rs that OF n New
| ton, Bacon or Locke. and, as far as he saw. no
| judgment was ever seunder. IL was slow In
| operation, being little aided by invention or
| imagination, but sure In conclusion. Hence
the common remark of his officers, OF the ad-
vantage he derived from councils OF war
where, hearing all suggestions he selected
whatever best. and certainly no general
ever planned his battles more iudiciOusly. But
II derangcd during the course Of the action, II
any member OF his plan was dislocated by sud-
den circumstances. he was slow in readiust-
mcnt
The consequence was that he often failed in
the field and rarely against an enemy In station,
as at Boston and York. He was incapable of
fear, meeting personal dangers with the calm
eat uncOncern. Perhaps the strongest feature
In his character prudence. never acting
until every circumstance, every consideration
was mRiureiy weighed; refTaiuing II no saw
! a doubt, but when once decided going through
with his purpose whatever obstacles opposed.
His integrity was most pure. his justice tho
8 Of interest or consanguinity, OF friendship or
1 hatred being able to bias his decision. lie was.
indeed, in every sense Of the words, a wise. a
= good and great man. His temper was
I naturally irritable aud high toned, but re-
y Election and resolution had obtained a firm and
habituhl ascendancy over II. III ever, however
II broke It's bonds, be was most tremendous
3 In his wrath. In his expenses he was honor
able, but exact; liberal In contributions to
whatever promised utility. but frowning and
| m a y ffrn arfa md all
unworthy calls ON his charity.
~ His heart was not warm In its affections, but
be exactly calculated every mans value and
3 gave him solid esteem proportioned TO IL.
Z His person. you know, was fine, his stature ex-
Actly what one would wish. his department
easy. erect and noble; the best horseman OF his
age, and the most graceful figure that could be
r seen ON horseback. Although in the circle OF
his friends, where he might be unreserved with
safety, he tooS free share In conversation,
his colloquial talents not above medioc-
rity, possessing neither copiousncss OF ideas
|, nor fiuency OF words. In public, when called
ON for n sudden opinion, he WAS unready, short
and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather
a diffusely, in easy and correct style. This he
had acquired by conversation with the world.
y for his education was merely reading, writing
4 and common arithmetic, 10 which he added
surveying at a later day.
His time was employed In action chiefly
reading little and that only In agriculture and
English history. His correspondence became
a necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing
his as-icultural proceedings. occupied most OF
: his leisure s-,urs within doors. On the whole
8 his character wsain its mass. perfect; Ia moth
!. ing bad in few points tl4Assferent and IL NAV
truly be said that never did Navarro and fortune
. combine more perfectly To make i1-aan great
! and TO place him In the same consteTss, ION
with whatever worthless have merited frols
man an everlasting remembrance.
3 For his was the singular destiny and merit
Of leading the armies Of bis country success
fully through an arduons war for the estab-
lishment OF its Independence: OF conducting Its
3 councils through the birth OF government,
4 new In its forms and principles, until II had
settled down into quiet and orderly train,
and OF scrupulousiy obeyiug the laws through
the whole OF his career civil aud military, of
which the history of the world furnishes no
other example.
: These are my opinions of General Washing
Y ton, which would yoneh at the judgment seat
. OF God. having been formed on an ncquaint-
: : ance Of thirty years. | served with him in the
j Virginia legislature from i7G9 To the Reyoiu-
! tionary war. and again short time in con-
grcss, until he left US to take command OF tho
army. During the war. and after II, we cor
J responded occasionally. and In the four years
OF my continuance in the office OF secretary OF
state our intercourse was daily confidential
and cordial.
After retired from that office great and
malignant pains were taken by our federal
monarchists, and not entirely without effect,
10 make him view as a theorist holding
French principles of government which would
lead infallibly To lleentiousness and anarchy.
And to this he listened the more easily from
my known disapprobation OF the British
treaty | never saw him afterward, or these
! malignant insinuations should have been dis
spa,ed before his just Judgment mists be-
fore the sun. | felt. ON his death, with my
countrymen. that Verify "a great man hath
fallen this day In Israel"