The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-11-18
(CoNTINUED.)
Rewarded for Service.

his OlO DCIy-SSTVaul, HVS0 ike d re-
tired gentleman in his cottage there;
even Nelson, the good sorrel who had
borne him 80 braveIy in the field till
Yorktown, now went forever unsad
died, free in his own pasture.
But, much as he loved his home
and courted retirement amidst the du-
ties of a planter, the old life would not
come back, was gone forever.
He was too famous, and there was
an end on it. He could not go abroad
without drawing crowds about him.
II he attended service on a Sunday
away from home, though it were in
never so quiet parish, the very walls
OF the church groaned threateningly
under the unaccustomed weight Of
people gathered in the galleries and
packed upon the floor to see the hero
of the Revolution. Not even a ride
into the far west, to view his lands
and pull together his neglected bust
ness on the Ohio, was long enough to
lake him beyond the reach of public
affairs.
A Trip Into the West.
On the LIST of September, 1884, with
DIR. Craik for company, he set out on
horseback to go by Braddock's road
again into the west.
For nearly five weeks he was deep
in the wilderness, riding close upon
seven hundred miles through the for
ested mountains, and along the remote
courses of the long rivers that ran in
to the Mississippi; camping out as in
the old days when he was a surveyor
and a soldier in his premiership in
these very wilds; renewing his zest
for the rough life and the sudden ad-
ventures of the frontiersman.
But, though he had come upon his
own business, it was the seat of fu-
ture empire he saw rather than his
own acres scattered here and there.
A Different Washington.
When last he had ridden the long
stages from settlement to settlement
and cabin to cabin in this far country
of the Ohio, he had been Virginian
and nothing more, q colonial colonel
merely, come to pick out lands for his
comrades and himself, their reward
for serving the crown against the
French.
A transformation had been worked
upon him since then.
He had led the armies of the whole
country; had been the chief instru-
ment of a new nation in winning indie
pendence; had carried its affairs by
his own counsels as no other man had
done;| had seen through all the
watches of those long campaigns the
destinies and the hope that were at
stake. Now he saw the crowding i'm
migrants come into the west with
new solicitude he had not felt before.
A new vision was in his thought.
This western country was now a
rising world" to be kept or lost,
husbanded or squandered, by the raw
nation he had helped put upon its
feet. His thought was stretched at
last to a continental measure; prob
lens Of craftsmanship that were ma
tional, questions of policy that had a
scope great az schemes of empire.
stood foremost in his view.
He returned home more engrossed
than ever by interests not his own,
but central to public affairs, and of
the very stuff of politics.
A Stream Of Letters.
And so not the letters merely which
poured in with every mail, not only
his host of visitors, great and small
the governor of the state, the presi-
dent of congress, foreign noblemen,
soldiers, diplomatists, travellers, neigh
bors, friends, acquaintances, intruders
but his own unbidden thoughts as
well, and the very suggestions of his
own interest as a land citizen and
landowner, drew him from his dreams
Of retirement and forced him upon the
open stage again.
Gives Up Hunting.
Even hunting ceased before many
seasons were out. The savage boar
hounds which Lafayette had sent, in
his kindness, from the Old World.
proved too fierce and great a breed
for even the sharp sport with the gray
fox; the old hunting companions were
gone-the Fairfaxes over sea; Bel~oir
deserted and burned; George Mason
too much ehgaged-none but boys and
strangers left to ride with.
Twas poor sport, after all, without
the right sportsmen. It must needs
give way before q statesman's cares
A New Sense Of Responsibility.
Upon his first Homecoming, Wash
ington had found it hard to break
himself Of his habit of waking very
early in the morning with a sense Of
care concerning the affairs of the day,
as II he were still in camp and in the
midst Of public duties.
Now new sense Of responsibility
possessed him, and more and more
gained ascendency over him. He be-
gan to feel deep anxiety lest weak
government should make independ-
ence little better than reproach, and
the country should fall into a hope
less impotency
At first he had been very sanguine
Notwithstanding the jealous and con-
tracted temper which seems to pre-
vail in some Of the states he wrote
to Jonathan Trumbull in January.
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