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The Progress., 1893-02-25
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jefferson, was nevertheless regarded by
Washington as the strongest friend that
he had to lean upon. 1t is probable that
he revealed more OF his condolences to
Trumbun than to any other man. They
were something alike in their moral quail
tiles. although Trumbull was Of Puri-
tanic riety. while Washington was not,
though each Of them was religious
man.
Some fifty years AGO the Hon. Learned
Hcbard was appointed executor oI the
estate Of William Williams, who was
grandson Of Jonathan I.eumbun, and
whose father was one C tie s.gncrs Of
the Declaration CT Independence. In the
settlement Of the C5tsto Judge Hebard
came across a vast amount of CORE
spondencc, including letters which passed
between Washington and Governor
Trunbull Some of these letters were
formal business Documents; others We're
of a more confidential nature. They re
ycIlcd Oh the part of Washington frne-
dom from reserve which none of his
other corres0cldence shows. One or two
of them contained that term which
Washington publicly applied to Gov
ernOr Trumbull, and which for many
years was regarded as nickname for the
American nation, Brother Jonathan"
Some of Trumbull's correspondence
was also found, whichshows that this
man of genius and clear intellect. man
born to be Of authority himself. had
recognized in Washington that quality
of greatness early in the time Of the
| Revolution ma before he had demon
stratel it to TIE world. Trumbull's 5 let
ters, while not CXtravagant, for he was
not the man to use eXtravagant terms,
/ indicate that Trumbull regarded Wash
ington as having been specially furnished
/ by Providence with those greater quail
/ ties. not only military, but moral, which
were necessary to establish the AmCri-
can nation. He had almost the feeling
/ for Washington which Arnold had, al
| though in his case there was personal in
timacy and almost an equality of rola-
tion which probably no other man of the
! Revelation enjoyed.
Thus the impression and influence
which Washington created and exerted
upon these two mcn-one Of brilliant
ability, but morally bad; the other Of III
tNlcctual and moral integrity and Of
statesmanlike quality-suggest how il
was that to men of all quality the i'm
preston that he gave was that Of great
ness. exactly as to the greatest intcilect'
Of this day. like Gladstonc's. the same i'm
preston has been given Dy Il study O
his Efe. L. JAY EDWARDS.
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buildings joi~ed together, extending east
and west and fronting toward the south.
Last spring it was totally destroyed by
fire, and three tall walls Of blackened
brick and masonry, says a contributor
to the New York Evening Post, are all
that Is left Of the most interesting dwell
ing on the Hudson. 1t was Benen.ct
Arnold's headquarters in 1850, and from
it he fed to the enemy. The owner had
gone over to the British some time be-
fore, and Putnam and Parsons lodged
there while campaigning in 177S-9. On
July 81, 1850, Washington took up his
lodgings in the mansion, and five days
later Arnold arrived, having been ap-
pointed to the command of West Point
and its dependencies.
Thus the river rolls on to the ocean,
gathering its strength from the storms
in the Adirondack mountain forests
its beauty from the wide sweep OF
plains, and later from the lofty Palisades,
and its historic splendor from the deeds
of George Washington, of Virginia, first
commander in chief of the armies of the
United States of America.
FRED G. DAYTON.
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vealed his moral greatness, but, accord
ing to the opinion of Mr. Gladstone and
other great English thinkers who have
studied his life, made it Impossible that
a monarchy could ever be established IL
the United States.
Carlyle. who had no great opinion Of
the American Revelation. believing, il
his private talks with hrHericans whom
he met have been correctly reported, thai
il was little more than a guerrilla war
fare. nevertheless has said that this half
sorrowful, half angry and contemptuoUs
repulse to those who were bringing to
him a crown was something greater than
the command Of tie AEericIn armies
through seven years TO Ultimate victory,
1t was an act that Europeans could not
understand.
Bonaparte was always inclined to be
Eeve the story purely arocryphal. al
though he was a great admirer OF
Washington and paid higher tribute tc
his military genius than some Other
great captains have done. But it was
incomprehensible to Bonaparte that q
man should have conducted Il prolonged
warfare to success without any idea OF
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and, moreover
Bonaparte himself had no conception
whatever of any other form Of republic
an government than that hideOus night
mare which followed the French revolu
ton.
Washington 3 greatness was impressed
upon some of the great men of the time:
in which he lived even before the wOrlC
understood his victories. and there arr
some anecdotes traditionaTy respecting
his relations with two of the ablest rel
of the Revolutionary period which hav'
not become threadbare by constant repe
tition, and which Illustrate this impres
sion of greatness which he gave to hi
contemporaries.
Two of the ablest men produced b.
the Revolutionary era were Jonathan
Trumbull and Benedict Arnold. The.
were both natives of eastern Connect
cut. Arnold was born only few mile
from Trumbulls home. Trupbull wa
man Of great piety, splendid executive
capacity and possessed in the highest de
gree the qualities of statemanship. Ar
mold was intellectually brilliant, bu
even in childhood had revealed defcien
moral quality. He would have made
! great business man, and was in fact EN-
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1.-THE authorities now accepted the
statue, and ordered it to be placed in
storage room in the park with lot of
rubbish, and there itremained something
like twenty years. When l became
president of the park department this
statue came Under my notice as l was
inspecting the city's property of which
was to have charge. 1t was covered
with dust and was hardly recognizable.
Its history had been forgotten. No one
knew what it was or how it came there.
The Tweed regime was past, and new
people were in Finally found an old
clerk who knew, and he told me of it.
1--WE were then laying out Riverside
park and decided that the statue should
be placed in the little crescent where it
now stands. A number of residents
along the new park Joined me in sub
scription, and we brought a block of
grar;te from New Hampshire and had
pedestal made. When the pedestal was
ready the statue was dedicated. It was
on a Fourth Of July. Children to the
number of 500, detailed in military form
from the various public schools, carried
out unaided on that day the programme
that had been begun before any of them
were born. The school commissioners
and 5000 other citizens, with Cappa's
Seventh regiment band, assembled at
the crescent, and the child N united in
anthem and scng and OF ton TO COM
plete in their own way the programme
of Inauguration. The little girls were
dressed in white, and the boys were all
bright and decently clad. Every. girl
and boy carried little flag of the coun-
try, and they all marched in procession
two and two, singing and scattering
flowers about the statue as they passed.
The scene was the most interesting and
touching Of any l ever beheld. And
thus the statue was dedicated
Soil is now being hauled from Fort
Washington, more than three miles up
the river, to complete bastion front for
the statue, and congress will be asked
to donate two or more Revolutionary
cannon to place at the angles. This
fort was the first geographical point to
be named for Washington, and there Is
not a square foot of its soil but was con-
secrated by the blood Of Cadwallader's
noblc Marylanders and Pennsylvanians
when they made their final and hopeless
stand. Spartan band of 5000, against
the kings army, seven times as strong
General Viele originated the idea of
making the bastion front with this soil
1t will be when completed an exact
duplicate of one of Alexander Hamilton $
bastions at the old fort
EDsoN BRACE
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the capital Of the Empire State, and
far above there fTowned, as they still do
today. the Adirondacks, probably the
oldest mountain range on the face of tho
globe. 1t was from a boat on the upper
Hudson that the Indians carried John
son. the noted English general, 10 the
healing waters" of the Saratoga springs.
1t was on the Hudson that West Point,
the famous military academy, was es-
tablished. On that stream Fulton
launched his steamboat, and near its
banks lived Washington Irying.
But the chief historical charm, Of the
lower Hudson particularly. is associated
with The events of Che Revolution and the
mighty name of Washington. From
Garrison's down to the sea the land on
both banks teens with splendid memo
ries Of sacrifice. romance and patriotism.
although in one place the beautiful pic
ture of heroism and endeavor is tinged
by the dark stain of treason. Wherever
amansion still stands in which the Father
Of His Country slept for a night it Is
known and visited as "Wasiins,u d ,uH j
them. Two, though, have about them
that air of love or tragedy with which
many delight to associate a great mans
name.
Il was at the manor house of her fam
ily in what is now the city Of YOnkers
that Mary Philhpse was born 163 years
ago. Washington met and wooed her in
1856, but she refused his addresses and
by so doing possibly changed the fate OF
the colonies. When the conflict will
England began a score of years Later
she and the rest of her family espoused
the Tory cause, and as result they
were attainted for treason and tbeil
property confscated. The turn of LhI
wheel Of fortune brou, ut Washington f
the manor house again, not as wooer
but as warrior. He made the mansiCr
his headquarters before and after the
battle Of White Plains. and again tool
possession of it in 1881 while his army
camped on Locust hill.
The house is fine old structure, bull
with the sturdiness and honesty of pur
pose for which the architects and me
4
chanics of the colonial period were noted
and is now the principal official building
occupied by the Yonkers city govern
ment. Where the the minuet wa
danced and the Christmas feast wa
served, where brides came home to be
come stately matrons and mothers,
court now sits, and blue garbed official
go in and out of the doors that wer
wont to open in welcome to gentlemen
who wore small swords, satin coats
knee breeches and lace ruffles at cola
and at wrist.
The sister of Mary, Washington's scorn
full sweetheart, was Susannah Phillipse
who married Beverley Robinson an
went to housekeeping in the old famil
mansion, which stood on the east side o
a road leading to Peekskill, about mil
below Garrison's station. This plac
was called the Beverley House, an
around it centers the story of the treaso
of Benedict Arnold. 1t consisted of thre
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GENERAL WASHINGTON.

narily slxillful avoidance Of battle when
defeat would have been almost certain
and when it required strategy of the
highest order to avoid it, was carried
out with the patience and the conviction
of genius. His retreat after the battle
of Long Island was Of itself, in Glad
stones opinion, sufficient evidence Of
great military ability to Justify his ap-
pointment as commander in chief Of the
American armies.
But it was not in respect OF military
quality that Mr.. Gladstone regarded
Washington as so pre-eminently great.
1t was in the perfect balance of all his
greater moral and intellectual qualities
that this pre-eminence lay. His patience,
according to Mr.. Gladstone, was some
thing exceeding that of any other man
who achieved greatness, for it was pa
tience under extraordinary irrita' 'ons,
and patience exercised for no per Sonal
ambition, but simply for the cause.
His conception Of what the govern
ment which he was seeking to establish
should be was quite as distinct and COM
prehensive as that of Hamilton, Jay,
Madison or jefferson, although he prob
ably could not have set forth in legal ar
gument as they did the reasons for that
conception. They were admirably set
forth in his messages. and especially in
his farewell address, although there art
indications that some Of the messages
were written by Hamilton, while the
farewell address was unquestionably
written by Livingston, although some
writers believe that Madison wrote it.
But If the phraseology was that of the
secretary the ideas were those of Wash.
ington, and he undoubtedly set them
forth to his secretaries, asking them, who
We're more familiar with the literary use
of the pen than he, to put them in fitting
language.
Mr.. Gladstone regards the finest
triumph of noble, unselfish, patriotic
and majestic impulse to be illustrated
by one brief incident in Washington:
career. When Washington refused the
crown, then the world had the finest e.;
emplifcation of noble, majestic nature
The incident is not as familiar as il
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AN OLD WASHINGTON STATUE.


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tionl
There is now on one Of the most pic
turesque spots on Manhattan island a
statue of GEORGE Washington which has
an interesting history. The statue stands
IN Riverside Gre cent. and is to the lower
end OF Riverside drive what the Grant
maasulelm Is Oh Il g~undcr scale to the
u~rcr. Tho frn". r.5- with its back
10 tla Hudson. 2,uu; eighty feet above
the tide. General Egyyrt l.. Niyie, who
saved tha statue from oblivion, told me
about it as follows:
This piaceof statGaty life sizercp-
rcseutatiCu Of WasLiu-tun. The first
thing you notice about 1t Is Its apparent
smallrass. 1t shows the pater patriR to
have been much smaller m"n than
everybody supposoS. That Is because
all his statues are either heroic or colos-
sal. r. cyaltirg his character the people
have maguiliel his person. Il IS SO the
world over with military and political
heroes. In pers ii Washington was not
a man of gigantic proportions by any
means. Tins Is truthful counterfeit,
if / may use the paradox. 1t is one Of
FIVE which show him as ho was All
others make him out man OF heroic
build. Suppose you look up his biog-
raphies and see T. you can find ina single
one of them a specific description of his
person, with reference especially to his
weight and stature.
Tho ORIGINAL Of this efIigv is in the
capitol at Richmond. 1t Is by EoudOA,
the celebrated French sculptor. IioCdon
was given the commission through
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barked on such career when the guns at
Lexington brought him into the field
Trumbull, who was governor Of the
Connecticut colony, greatly admired Ar
nold's energy in getting his company to-
gether within an hour after the messen-
ger brought the news of Lexington, and
at the bayonet's point demanding pow
der from the hesitating New Haven au-
thorities, and then. equipped, leading
them in the march across country to
Boston. 1t was Trumbull who advised
Washington of this exploit, SO that
Washington became early impressed
with Arnold's military ardor and ability.
Arnoids achievement IN taking an
army across the wilds Of Maine to Que
bee, which has been ikened by some
writers to the marches Of Xenophon OF
Hannibal, gained for him the warmest
friendship Of Washington.
Arnold's letters show that the only
man in Revolutionary times for whom
he felt either fear or respect was Wash
ington. In Washington's presence Ar.
mold was subdued, gracious and respect
full. Some of his letters indicate that he
had for Washington feeling he had fol-
no other man, something of affection
and it was apparent to those who studied
the life Of Arnold that the only person
before whom he stood tanned and whose
authority he cheerfully acknowledged
was Washington. That indicates some
thing Of that great moral quality which
led Mr.. Gladstone to speak of Washing
ton as perhaps the greatest man since
Luther. When he was contemplating
his awful treachery the only though
that gave Arnold pain was that Washing
ton would suffer. For the rest he caret
not one jot.
TrumbuI, although not so conspicuoul
in the agitations which led to the revol
of the colonies as Sam Adams or Johl
Hancock or Roger Sherman or Thona
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WASHINGTON REFUSING THE CROWN.
were men who were fearful that the am
bitions and jealousies of some Of those
who had been Of influence during the
Revolution would lead them to attempt
to gain great personal power. There
were others who believed that as result
of the victory there would be established
in America a constitutional monarchy
modelled after that of Great Britain.
The nation as we now know it was a
government yet to be created.
So company of officers-men having
influence - having talked this matter
over. agreed to go to Washington. ask
him to accept the crown of empire and
to promise him the support Of the army
in establishing thus personal throne.
When they approached him Washington
believed that these officers and friends Of
his had come upon some such errand as
led them often TO seek him for counsel.
He was in happy frame of mind that
morning. The war was ended victori-
ously, and he had already been in con-
sultation with Hamilton and some Others
respecting the form of civil government
which the now free colonies should un-
dertake.
They offered him the crown in but a
single sentence. A few years before,
across the river, Washington. being seat
ed at breakfast. had been approached by
an officer. who said to him that Benedict
Arnold had fed after an attempt TO be
tray West Point into the hands Of the
British. The news was appalling and to
Washington must have been extraordi-
narily painful, since for Arnold he had a
personal affection which he bestowed
upon only two or three Of his other OIL
GERS. Yet 80 great was his self command.
so superb his capacity for suppressing
emotion, so thoroughly had he schooled
himself to face adversely with calmnees,
that those about him only saw look
sad sternress come to his scountenancs as
he uttered the now historic words,
Whom can we now trustr
But when these officers proposed to
him the empire and tried to put the
scepter in his hand Washington broke
down. There was sorrow and there was
anger in his countenance and in his man.
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THE LORDLY HUDSON.
WASHlNGTONS WOO!NG AND MAR
FARE ON ITS BANKS.

He Courted ana Was Refused and a Score
of Years Later Fought and Won on the
Scene of His Early disappointment
Romance Of a River.
Copyright. 1895, by American Trcss A=-oc,o-
tioH.l
The Hudson river ana various points
along its banks tecn with historic glory.
To one who Is familiar with the record
Of the colonies that aft,; wand became
the United States Of America the mon
ton of the name evolves panoramic
retrospect that has all the Gurae"Hsness
Of a dream and the solidily cf fact.
There was the old DUtclman who sailed
up the stream looking for a waterway to
the Indies. Following the explorer came
the colonists, the village Of New AmsJer-
dam, and ter the city Of New York,
while at e head Of tidewater, nearly
17O mile rom the bay, rose the trading
post of -IDany, afterward destined to be
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Washirgton's Politeness.

George Washington was polite almost
to the point of punctiliousness. The
story is often told of him that, having
bowed to a colored man who had saluted
him, a friend expressed surprise. Wash
ington's quick retort was, What. do
you wish to have me outdone in polite
ness by slave?"
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ner. Tears came to his eyes, and when
he dismissed them with sad gesture and
only brief word these men realized
that Washington had been shocked and
grieved that it could have entered into
their hearts that he for one moment could
have regarded an empire as possible or
could have fought through those seven
years that he might himself attain the
throne.
In that action Washington not only re-
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Teacher-Willie, when called at your
house yesterday and saw the Life of
Washington" gave you Christmas L was
much grieved to notice that the leaves
had not been cut.
Willie (meekly)-No'm. If I'd cut
those leaves l wouldn't have half the
chance to swop it off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-24
WOMEN AND THE FRANCHISE
The Law in Michigan to Be Testeo'
Before Election.
1t Allows Women to Vote in Municipal Elec-
lions With an Educational Qualification
supposed Advantage to republicans.
'scial Correspondents Of The Evening Star.

Grand Rapids, Mich. July 81
one enactment Of the legislature in par
tlcular is giving the Michigan democracy
good deal of anxiety 1t is the law be-
slowing the rights Of franchise upon the
women in municipal elections. This law,
passed ostensibly in response to loud and
repeated calls from the women, in reality
mas deep political significance and is di-
rected especially at the democracy of De-
troit. Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Muskegan
and other cities in the state where repub-
ncan victories are the exceptions that prove
the supremacy of the other fellows The
law as 1t was enacted provides an educa-
tional qualification for women who vote
and those who can read and write can cast
their ballots for the entire municipal ticket
publicans figured that 9 the INC more Ell ignorant
foreigners, the Poles, Swedes Irish and
Germans are democrats by large majorites,
and the foreign element play an important
part In municipal elections and roll up dem
3 OCT majorities. BY giving the women
tional qualification the republicans expect
tnat the votes of the enlightened women
I'LL more than counterbalance anything the
Al. Inc democrats do not propose to allow
sne new law to go unchallenged and it will
pe tested IN the supreme court before the
tl, comes for applying 1T: The state CEN
tral committee has taken hold of the mat
one Of the cities which the democrats con.
troi VIII resign and special election will
DC gained TO NIL the vacancy. The validity
or the new law allowing women to vote
VIII De inquired into at that time and the
question will be settled before the munich
pal election in Detroit this fall The con-
test will be made on constitutional points
the state constitution is very clear In Civ
ing the franchise to males only and
throughout the instrument the language is
elections The republicans claim the mat
ter OF sex pertains only to general elections
and the election of state and county Of
ncers and that who shall vote in municipal
elections Is discretionary with the legisla-
ture. The democrats have several supreme
court decisions bearing more or less di-
rectly upon the question, although the
question itself is new one.
, very soon after the enactment of the law
the republicans in Detroit and Lansing set
ABOUT corraling the female vote and in
saginaw and in the city they have begun
q gentle filtration with the same object in
view. In Lansing they have adopted reso-
buttons inviting the women to come into
the fold and to participate in the party de-
operations and places have been made for
rney are Claiming good deal of credit
Tor themselves In bestowing the franchise
ana Will expect the women to vote the re-
publican ticket as a slight token of appre-
cation The state has a woman's repub-
Hcan association with Mrs. Mary Stewart
comm OF Detroit as it's president and this
association has already begun to do mis-
sionary work through the state