Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-22
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WHEN WASHINGTON WAIVED NONE
During His Retirement at Mount VernoI the Sheriff Was Constantly Threatening


 the Sheriff Was Constantly Threatening.
 Down to the date of his leaving the command of the continental troops and retiring" to Mount Vernon the life of Washington had been one continual series of ;,IXieties and conflicts, but these had been borne on behalf of the public md not himself or any of his friends IT family. He was to find, however, that contests and struggle como to the private individual as well as to the man of affairs, and these smaller matters were to greatly try his sonl, whereat perhaps many of the rest of us, who are sometimes unGuly worried Gy small matters, may take courage to hyGin anew.
 It may have been anticipated by Washington that after military career with triumphant termination he might find plantation life little irk- some, but he never complained of that He did complain, and bitterly, however, of his lack of money. His complainings were not unnatural, seeing that not be- fore since his fifteenth birthday had he been hard up. and that both he and his wife had began life in the possession of what were in those days ample for tunes. Washington Straitened cir cumstanceS at this time were not in any sensAdue to extravaganza or to lack of attention to business. On the contrary, he appears to havo been one of the most industrious, most methodical and most frugal planters going, Every morning he was up at o'clock, and clad i'll the coarsest hoIneSpun he rode daily Is or 20 miles over his plantation, inspecting the crops and tho work that was being done on them. Mrs. Washington was as industrious as her husband, as indeed she had to be, looking after the house. hold on a plantation of thousands of | acres like Mount Vernon. There were, however, times that might have been spent ill recreation or possibly rest, but we are told that neither rcposo nor pleas ure was inlul:td in at these times. Instead she devoted herself to knitting fine woolen hCSiC~-'' for herself, her family and its fricnuS One would at first imagine that the Father of His Country and his spouse lived the lives of pair of money grubbcrs but for the further recorded fact that at least once n week the horns rang out through the merry gladcS, ladies and gentlemen in 1 scarlet coats and dresses followed the baying hounds, the gray fox doubled through the may woods, and Washing ton. with shouts and cheers, mounted on his fleettst horse, was always in at 1 the death.
 The administration of tho estate and household at this time is reported to have been almost perfect. Visitors were l chor,ya.l ,K.Stl, ,,1,jN,,-el ,.r,1sY aI,l plicity, but the cruel fact remained that the man who had won the American Revolution could not pay his bills and was constantly being annoyed by the sheriffs, who threatened wi;h dis tress, " whatever that may have been. | Washington tried hard to sell part of his land in order that be might meet some of his moro pressing obligations, 1 but in vain. He had plenty of money, such as it was. awarded to him by con- l gress but it was nearly worthless through depreciation.
 He wroto to his mother, thpn an old woman. and described his situation terse- ly, saying that he knew not where to find shilling" Finally in l1SS he had to borrow few hundred pounds of q neighbor. to whom he wrote in apology for soliciting aid: II have put of the sheriff of the county three times, If he comes again. must suffer him to make distress v
 Just when his personal affairs were at the lowest ebb he was again called by his country. but not to war. This time his services were needed at the con stitutional convention. and the results
 ,F Sl A.. constitution WIS adopted. Washington was mad" president, and tho life of the federal government was begun.