The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-08-01
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he people Is concerning 1t; Tor at
resent the cry against the treaty is
ke that against a mad dog; but he
.hoWed himself very calm to the gen
eral eye, making his uneaslness
known only to his intimates. The
cruel abuse heaped upon him cut him
to the quick. Such exaggerated and
indecent terms" he cried, could
scarcely be applied to a Nero, a no
torious defaulter, or even to COM
mon pickpocket"
stormed. talked of usurpation and i'm
parchment, called him base, incompe-
tent, traitorous even, were permitted
to see not so much as the culver OF
an eyelid as they watched him go
steadily from step to step In the
course he had chosen.
Abuse lie Regretted.
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, and remembered that, while
they had been abusing Jay and
maligning. the president, Thomas
Pinckney had obtained a treaty from
Spain which settled the Florida bound
airy, opened the Mississippi without re-
striction, secured place of deposit at
New Orleans, and made commerce
with the Spaniards as free as com,
merce with the French.
The whole country felt 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 squandered public
moneys; who had gone beyond 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.
Becomes Flat Federallst.
When he had seen parties forming
in his cabinet in the quiet days of his
first term as president, he had sought
to placate differences; had tried to
bring Hamilton and Jefferson 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
hn ofo 6ar I'd rf
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 government.
bring a 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 are pursuing;
for this. in my opinion, would be
sort of political suicide; and he left
the presidency ready to call himself
very fatty "Federalist" the par
ty that stood for the constitution and
abated nothing of it's powers.
You could as soon scrub blacka-
more white" he cried, "as to change
the principle of protest Democrat
"he will leave nothing uninterrupted to
ovefturn the government Of this coun-
try"
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 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 con
fidence and affection, and would have
had him take the presidency a third
time, to keep the government steady
in its new ways.
His Farewell Address.
But he would not have the hard Of
flee again. On the 18th of September,
1896, he published to the people a
farewell address, quick with the sol
omu SIOQu6uCo luSu uAu COAuS TO SA-
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 difident beginnings in the great
ofice-though Hamilton was the arch
Federalist and Madison was turning
Democrat-teok, 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.
1T was designed" he said. Sin .
more especial manner for the yeoman-
ry Of the country" and spoke the ad-
vice he hoped they might take to
heart. The circumstances which HAD
given his services temporary value.
he told them. were passed: they had
now united and national govern
ment, which might serve them for
great ends. He exhorted them to pre-
serve 1t intact. and not to degrade Y
in the using: to put down party spirit,
make religion, education and good
faith 1ha guides and safeguards OF