Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15

country certainly justify the suggesIon
that Thackery's fortunate youth, harry
| WARRINGTON, in 1.-The N~irglnlans," was
drawn from him. p
He was, by that time, married 10 d
| certain beautiful Miss Sally Cary, Will
! whom rumor in the colony SAID Ieorse
Washington also had been IN love. Lug
| couple had invited Washington to JOIN
them for q visit to FairfaX's new inner
itance, Towlston Manor, in YORKSHIRE
and were much disappointed "heh
| Washington wrote out to them:
NY indulging myself in a trip 10
| England depends upon so many con
| ~tincencies. which in all probability may
never occur, that l dare not even think
of such a gratifcation." A COMFORT
| perhaps. to some Stay-at-homes OIL the
present day, although their reward Tor
! labor in the home field may no prove
quite so wonderful as that OF the most
ilustrious Of all Americans.
InG Two I0OIStS III ll1o1l JootA "N
not spend all their days in sport and
! travel. Side by side they went into
| the political contests Of the country.
Perhaps the most interesting phase
| of the friendship Of the two Georges
was that during the oncoming OF the
Revolutionary War. while washington
was slowly but surely taking his place
| as one of the guiding spirits OF the
movement toward disruption from the
mother country, and George Fairfax
was as steadfastly holding to his con-
| yiction that such a movement was
wrong and miscellaneous.
IN spite Of this burning difference,
| their relations did not alter. They dis
| cussed the question personally and by
letter. from every standpoint, each
listening respectfully to the others
views. and each ending as firm as be-
| fore in his own opinion.
FROM PATRIOT TO TORY.
II was to Geo1se Fairfax that Wash
! ington finally gave utterance to that
noble cry of feeling about the coming
conflict:
"inhappy If is to reflect that a
brothers sword has been sheathed in a
brothers. breast, and that the once
| happy and peaceful plains OF America
are to he either drenched with blood
or inhabited by slaves. Sad alterna-
! tiycI BIT can Il yirtuOus man hesitate
in his chOiceT"
George Fairfax sailed finally for
England. passing the faMou tea
| ships coming into Boston Harbor, and
in England the conscientious Tory
thereafter lived and died.
During his absence at this time
Washington charged himself with the
care of Belvoir, and the various affairs
relating to his friends Virginia estate.
tairfaX's death was Il blow to him,
Another link of remembrance binding
Washington to Belvoir was that there
| began, as has been said, his first ac-
quaintance With the interesting old
lord Of Greenway Court.
This old nohleman had ONE out to
live in the Virginia wilderness in the
prime of his manhood, and abandon
ing his beautiful home OF Leeds Castle
in Kent. Engiand, and other estates,
contented himself with 1uling owe a
principality OF land inhabited chiefly
by a few bacllWoodsmen. a few scat
tered families, many proving and
bloody-minded indians and vast abund-
ance of big game.
His lodge at Greenway Court, not far
from the present town of Winchester,
was an abode of delight to the boy
Washington. who was frequently bid
den there to stay. In the dining room
Of the writer of these lines hang two
large plates Of old Oriental china, part
Of Il set once presented by Washington
to Lord Fairfax on his arrival at
Greenway Court for Of these many
visits.
From Lord Fairfax he received color
and influence in many matters relating
to literature, culture and the science OF
diplomacy in foreign courts. LII a
thousand ways their sympathieS
touched and through all the talks,
when Washington stood fast for the
colonies, Lord Fairfax for the crown,
they kept their friendship intact.
Most s%choolboys know the touching
story of how news of the surrender OF
Lord CORVALLIS came to the oid baron,
as he sat by the chimney corner in his
| great lodge brooding Over the trend OIL
public events. When convinced that
America was forever free from Eng
lands rule, and, worse than all, that
it was the lad he had helped to train
to whom the British commander at
Yorktown had surrendered an army,
he at first said nothing. After a while
he turned to black Joe, his body ser
want, eXclaiming plaintively:
Take me to my bed, Joe! 1t is time
for me to die"
Belvoir, in the mutability Of affairs
concerning American estates, has