Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-06

Present Crisis-Did Not Wish America
 to Interfere In squabbles With Enrepe
 eff RightfnIly It Can Be Done."
 In the manuscript department of the British museum, London, there are slowed away hundreds of autographic 1 letters of men famous in modern and ancient history. While in London last summer Mir O. O. Stealy, the Washing ton correspondent of the Louisville Cou- rier- Journal found among these old let ters an autograph one from George | Washington, written from Philadelphia April 22, 1793, to Lord Earl of Buchan. A part of the letter refers to foreign complications and furnishes an interest ing chapter at this time. With the letter was the following note written by the Earl of Buchan, brother of Lord Erskine
 "On the 18th of January, 1793, 1 wrote to Mir Washington on the happy prospects America might entertain if by any means it could abstain from min gling i'll European politics. laid before him the vanity and folly of preferring the indulgence of national pride. vanity and resen tment to the slow but certain benefits to be permanently obtained by peace and internal prosperity. Iventur- ed also to recommend as the great ob- jects to the executive of America peace and union with the red natives and at tention to national education. ,
 To these sentiments the president an swered in the following letter. The first part of the letter relates to private af- fairs and indicates that General Wash ington and Lord Buchan were old and intimate friends. Then the letter pro- ceeds to the subject matter as follows:
 'The favorable wishes which your lordship has expressed for the prosperity of this young and rising country cannot but be gratefully received by all it's citi- zens and every lover of it, one means to the contribution of which and it's happi- ness is very judieiously portrayed in the following words of your letter: TO be little heard of in the great world of pol itics. These words, I can assure your lordships are expressive of my sentiments on this head, and believe it is the sin cere wish of united America to have nothing to do with the political intrigues or the squabbles of European nations i; but, on the contrary, to exchange com modities and live in peace and unity with all the inhabitants of the earth, and this I am persuaded they will do if rightfully it can be done-to administer justice to and receive it from every pow CT with whom they are connected will, hope, be always found the most prom inent feature in the administration of this country, and I fiatter myself that nothing short of imperious necessity can occasion a breach with any of them. Under such system, if we are allowed to pursue it, the agricultural and me- chanical arts, the wealth and population of these states, will increase with that degree of rapidity as to baffle all calcu- lations and must surpass any idea your lordship can hitherto have entertained on the occasion.
 "To evince that our views, whether realized or not, are expanded l take the liberty of sending you the plan of new city, situated about the center of the Union of these states, which is designed for the permanent seat of the govern ment, and we are at this moment deep ly engaged and far advanced in extend ing the inland navigation of the river (Potomac) on which it stands and the branches thereof through tract of as rich country for hundreds of miles as any in the world. Nor Is this solitary instance of attempts of the kind, al { l. iaI1 completion and in partial use. Several other important ones are commenced, and little doubt is entertained that in ten years, if left undisturbed, we shall open a communication by water with all the lakes northWard and westward of us with which we have territorial con nections and all inland navigation in a few years more from Rhode Island to Georgia, inclusive, partly by cuts be- tween the great bays and sounds and partly between the islands and sand banks and the main from Albemarle sound to the river St. Mary's To these may also be added tho erection of bridges over considerable rivers and the commencemento of turnpike roads as fur tu6f luulcalloH oI bno Improvements III hand. With great esteem and respect, I have the honor to be your lordship's most obed t. h 'ble servant,
 "G WASHINGTON. ''
 Mir Stealy took copy of the letter, and it is not believed that it has ever been printed in this country.
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