The Washington herald., 1913-03-21

NJ. OO.
At last the storm cleared; the bitter
months were over; men at the ports saw
at length how much more freely trade
ran under the terms of the treaty, AMI
re membered that. while they had been
abusing Jay and maligning the President.
Thomas Pinckney had obtained a treaty
from Spain which settled the Florida
boundary. opened the Mississippi withour
restriction. secured a place Of deposit
at New Orleans and made commerce
with the Spaniards as free as commerce
with the French.
The whole country felt new impulse
of prosperity. The "paroxyism of the
fever" was over. and shame came upon
the men who had so vilely abused the
great President and hadymade 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 Revolution and had squan-
dered public moneys; who had gone be-
yond threats OF impeachment and dared
to hint at assassination! They saw the
end of his term APPROACH, and would have
recalled their insults.
But they had alienated his great spirit
forever.
Washington q Peacemaker.
When he had seen parties forming in
his Cabinet in the quiet days of his first
term rs President. he had sought to pla-
cate differences: had tried to'bring Ham,
ilton and Jefferson to cordial under
standing which should be purged of par
tisan bias. as he meant his own judg-
ments to be: had deemed parties un-
necessary and loyalty to the new Con-
stitution the only standard of prefer.
nent TO office
Rnf 40 had IN ind t,,
the hard year that followed Il shall
not. whilst / have the honor to admins
ter the government. bring a man into
any office of consequence knowingly"
he declared in the closing days Of 1Te5,
whose political tenets are adverse to
the tenets which the general government
are pursuing: for this, in my opinion.
would be a sort of political suicide and
he left the Presidency ready tn call HIM
self very fistly a "Federalist"-of the
party that stood for the Constitution and
abated nothing of its powers.
You could as soon scrub a blacka-
more white" he cried. "as to change
the principle of a protest Democrat
he will leave nothing uninterrupted to
overturn the government of this coun-
try"
Quiet and Prosperity.
Affairs fell very quiet again as the
last year of his Presidency drew toward
its close.
Brisk trade under the new treaties
heartened the country more and more:
the turbulent Democratic clubs that had
so noisily affected French principles and
French modes of agitation were sobered
and discredited now the reign of terror
had come and wrought its bloody work
in France; the country turned once more
to Washington with its old confidence
and affection. and would have had him
take the Presidency a third time. to keep
the government steady in it's new ways.
But he would not have the hard Office
again.
His Farewell Address.
On the 18th of September. 1875. he pub
lished to the people farewell address,
quick with the solemn eloquence men had
como TO expect 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
an arch Federalist. and Madison was
turning Democrat-to their phrases for
his thought. where they seemed better
than his own; put the address forth as
his mature and last counsel to the little
nation he loved.
TT was designed he said. ''in more
the country and spoke the advice he
hoped they might take to heart. The
circumstances which had given his serv-
ices a temporary value. he told them,
were passed: they had now a unified and
national government, which might serve
them for great ends. He exhorted them
to preserve II intact. and not to de-
grade il in the using; to put down party
spirit, make religion, education. and
good faith the guides and safeguards Of
their government. and keep it national
and their own by excluding foreign H.
fiuencrs and entanglements-
John Adams Takes once.
Twas a noble document. No Thought
full man could read it without emotion.
knowing how it spoke in all its solemn
sentences .he great character of the man
whose career was ended.
When the day came On which he
should resign his Office to John Adams.
the great ciyilian who was to succeed
him there was a scene which left 10
one in doubt-not even Washington him
self-what the people thought of the
leader they had trusted these twenty
years.
A great crowd was assembled to see