The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-20

fCopynE6t, ltlS, ny 'ne Mcclure
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IT was not the same Virginia, nor even
the same home and neIghborhood he
had gone from, that Washington
III camo back to when tho war was
done. He had left Mount Vernon in
the care OF Lund Washington, his
nephew. While the war. lasted, and had
mol forgotten amidst all his letter writ
Ing TO send seasonable directions and
maintain a constant oversight upon the
management of his estate 1t was part
thing, and Mount Vernon had suffered
something less than the ordinary haz-
ards and neglects Of war. II had sIf-
fered less upon one occasion, indeed. than
heart TO wish. ''
In the spring OF. 1871 several Brit
I,,,, ish vessels .ss po,dna had come pIllaeing
Lurd had regaled their officers with re-
!reshments from Mount Vernon to buy
them off from mischief. ut would have
been a less painful circumstance TO
me-" his uncoImpromising uncle had writ
fen him. 'to have heard that. In conse-
quence OF your nom compliance with their
request they had burnt my house and
laid the plantation in ruin. You ought
10 have considered yourself as my rep
resentative,"
Kept though 1t was from harm, how
ever the place had suffered many things
was some part OF the task 10 be done
over again that had confronted him when
he came TO take possession OF the old
plantation with bis bride after tho neg
lscts OF the French war.
VIRGINIA's HERo.
Washington found himself no stranger
In the new state. for all Il had grown OF
a sudden so unlike that old community In
which his own life had been formed. Ho
found very royal welcome awaiting
htFr a % m -N..tN alr,Hz
monwealth loved a hero still as much as
ever. was as loyal TO him now as il had
been In tne faFIaway days of the French |
val; When Onwiddie alone fretted |
tribute OF ahection; offered him gifts, |
and loved him all the better for refus- |
But he must have felt that a deep
change had come upon his life, none the |
less. and even upon his relations with |
his old familiars and neighbors. He had
gone away henored indeed, and marked
for responsible services among his peo-
Plea Burgess as a matter of course. a
notable citizen. whose force no man who
knew him could fail TO remark; but by
among the men who gathered for the
coonys business at Williamsburg; chosen
only upon occasion for special services of |
acton. no debater or statesman. SO far
popular with the crowd though II should
Ike his franllness and taking address,
and go out OF its way TO see him on
horsaosck; man for his neishbors. who
which he refused TO court
A WORLD FIGURE.
But the war had suddenly lifted him
70 the view OF all mankind; had marked
MN statesman IN the midst of affairs
more q statesman than a soldier even.
men must nave thought who had read
his letters or heard them read in con-
gfeso, on the foor or IN the committee 4,
!oonls; had drawn 10 himself the admlra-
;s Hoh o. the very men he had been fight
TAG helped TO cast OF He had come | :
nome perhaps the most famous man OF
~. Ms qag: Ia and could not take UP the old
hs nss ,esssa %nere ne had left II on, much as
mmseii, TO play a new part In affairs. !
TOT lew weeks. indeed. after he had )
.es;.,ed ssssaed Mount Vernon, nature herself !
rs,irement The winter G7SS-D was an
un unncSSinmonly S'ily severe one. Snow lay piled.
~ ~ a. 9ut impa BILE, upon the roads. frosts
he bs'oenea oe,g ali the country against travel; c
ne ne could not even get to Fredericksburg a
,9. 70 zee mis- aged mother; and not many /
n.,nS, ms,nSSis, though they were his near 7
SS.igaoors: could reach. him at Mount c
wit With the spring the whole life OF the &
spr svr'd seemed TO come pouring In upon I
,s1i. ym. Men Of note everywhere pressed Il
,tranrsS ,t1,T correspondence upon him: no t
Mst Of Mount Vernon In planning where j
NJ should go and what he should see; I
aSw ,.Sy. iHends and old sat every day at his r
sIn' IGe' a year and a half had gone by u
my ,n.e MS home coming before he could o
WIZ yg,s IN MS diary June 30. 1850: "Dined II
,,., M.,h only Mrs. Washington, which. be-
,.,e n"e IS The first instance OF IT. snce my c
y,sss;..sInent from public lfe"-for some b
th,o"s thors mad broken their way even I
sa,ough the winter roads. d
ysa,s a,uulors sent him what they wrote In Z
.,s ,sH'ors submitted their ideas and mod 4
,sia I" MIN; everything that was being t
,,sernsd 10 find It's way. II nowhere else v
II, H. MOUNT Vernon-till those who knew II
inn inn 'ccupations could speak of Washing n
cal ,r,.y rsry Justly, as "the focus of politl- q
~ H. dah.elhgence for the new world" n
ne would not alter his way OF living