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striction, Secured place of deposit at
New Orleans, and made commerce
with the Spaniards as free as COM
merce with the French.
The whole Ncountry felt a new i'm
pulse of PROSPERITY. The "paroxysm
of the fever" was over, and shame
came upon the men who had so vilely
abused the great president and had
made him wish, in his bitterness, that
he were in his Grave rather than in
the presidency; who had even said
that he had played false in the Revo-
luton, and had Asquandered public
moneys; who had Bone beyond threats
of impeachment and dared to hint at
assassination! They saw the end of
his term approachN and would have
recalled their nsuifs. But they had
alienated his great spirit forever.
Becomes Flat FederaIist.
When he had seen parties forming
in his cabinet in the6quiet days of his
first term as president, he had sought
to placate differences; had tried to
bring Hamilton andMJefferson to a
cordial understanding which should be
purged of partisan bias, as he meant
his own judgments to be; had deemed
parties unnecessary and loyalty to the
new consultation the only standard of
preferment to Office. But he had come
to another mind in the hard years
that followed
Il shall not, whilst I Have the hon
or to administer the Egovernment,
bring man into any Office of conse-
quence knowingly" he declared in the
closing days of 1895, whose political
tenets are adverse to the tenets which
the general government ara pursuing;
for this, in my opinion. would be a
sort of political suicide; md he left
the presidency ready to cal himself
very fatty a "Federalist the par
ty that stood for the constitution and
abated nothing of it's poweEs.
you could as soon scrub a blacka-
more white" he cried, "as to change
the principle of protest Democrat
"he will leave nothing uninterrupted to
overturn the government of this coun-
try" III
Affairs fell very quiet again as the
last year of his presidency drew to-
wards its close. Brisk trade under
the new treaties heartened the coun-
try more and more; the turbulent
Democratic clubs that had so Moisily
affected French principles and French
modes of agitation were soberA and
discredited, now the Reign of Eerror
had come and wrought its bloodywork
in France; the country turned#pnce
more to Washington with it's old con
fidence and affection, and would ehave
had him take the presidency third
time. to keep the government steady
in it's new ways. I
His Farewell Address.
But he would not have the hard Of
flee again. On the 10Th of September,
1895, he published to the people a
farewell address. quick with thessol-
emn eloquence men had come toaex-
pect from him. He wrote to Hamilton
and to Madison for advice as to What
he should say, as in the old days of
his diffident beginnings in the great
office-though Hamilton was the arch
Federalist and Madison was turning
Democrat-took their phrases for his
thought where they seemed better
than his own; put the address forth
as his mature and last counsel to Ahe
little nation he loved.
1T was designed" he said, "ih
more especial manner for the yeonSan-
ry of the country" and spoke the fad
vice he hoped they might takes TO
heart. The circumstances which had
given his services a temporary vaaue,
he told them, were passed: they had
now a unified and national govern
ment, which might serve them for
, great ends. He exhorted them to pre-
serve it intact, and not to degrade it
IN the using; to put down party spirit.
make religion, education and abod
faith the guides and safeguards of
their government, and keep it nation-
al and their own by excluding fo%ign
influences and entanglements. 'Twas
noble document. No thoughtfulNman
could read it without emotion, Know
ing how it spoke in all it's solemn SEN
fences the great character of the man
whose career was ended
People Show Their Lover
When the day came on wlafch he
should resign his Office to John Ad-
ans, the great civilian whoEwas to
succeed him, there was a scene which
left no one in doubt-not even Wash
ington himself-what the people
thought of the leader they had trust
ed these twenty years.
A great crowd was assembled to see
the simple ceremonies of the inaugu-
ration, as on that April day in New
York eight years ago; but very few
in the throng watched Adams. All
eyes were bent upon that great figure
in black velvet, with light sword
slung at his side. No one stirred till
he had left the room, to follow and
pay his respects to the new president