The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-28

alone," no declared, "will enable you.
to Judge Of all the rest'''' at IL not.
my intention to exaggefate; 2 he SAID:
y wish only to express my impress,
sion of q perfect whole; which cannot
be the product Of, enthusiasm, since
the effect at proportion is rather to
diminish the idea Of greatness."... - y
Change In; Washlngton's vLoeks.:s.s ;
Strangers who had noted his ap-
pearance in the earlier years Of the
war had remarked the spirit and life
that sat in Washington's eyes; but
when the war was over, and Its strain
relaxed, they found those eyes grown
pensive. mora attentive than spark:
ling; steady atill, and noble in their
frankness and good feeling, but
touched q little with care. dimmed with
watching *:s. -. s: Z, .:s::.s-s +,
The Prince % Broglis found him
"still as fresh and active 40 q young
man.. in 1882. but thought che must
have been much handsomorS three.
years ago." Tor '.the gentlemen who
had remained With him during all that
time said that he seemed to have
grown much older H:: e.; sz. ii {, :.
'Twguld have. iheeSin. no marvel had
he broken und6r 81 burden he had
arried,athlatio: soldier and: hardened
campaigner$ though Did was. + "Thts 10
tho seventh year init he has com
manded tho arny:sand that he has
obeyed the congress; 8 more need not
be sa1d, "ssthe Marquis de chastellux
declared, upconsaously utteFing -
very bitter sthe againstr the govern.
ment, when he: meant only: to praise
1ts general. S :: " ..:''>:5 ~: ~ :
Letters 9for Ar. ~,::~.: =.
Such service told the. more heavily
upon. Washington :because he had rem
dered it In silence. ::
No man among NIL the Revolution.
AIRY leaders. tits true. had: been more
at the desk: than 10. Letters Of COM
mand and persuasion reports that
carried every detail of the arn,y's life
and hopes In their oarsful phrases,
orders Of urgency and OF provident aE.
rangement. writings Of any aud every
sort that. might keep tho hard; wAf
afoot, he had poured forth inceesant-
ly, and as r. incapable Of fatigue or
discouragement, No one who was nm
der orders. no man who could lend the
service hand or take a turn at coun-
sci, was likely to escape seeing the
commander-in.chief's handwriting Oft
en- enough to keep him In mind Of his
tireless power to foresee and to d.
rect. $3.50.
A client Man.
Washington seemed present IN ev'
cry transaction: of the war:
And yet always and to every one
he seemed q silent man: What he
said and what he wrote never touched
himself. He spoke seldom of motives,
always Of what was to be done and
considered; and even his secretaries,
though they handled the multitude Of
his papers, were left oftentimes to
wonder and speculate about the man
.1imself-so frank and. yet 30 reserved,
50 straightforward and simple and yet
SO proud and self.contained, revealing
powers, but somehow not revealing
himself. So
It must have seemed at times to
those who followed him and pondered
what they saw that he had caught
from nature her own manner while he
took his breeding a. q boy and his
preparation as man amidst the for.
ests of wild frontier; that his char
acter spoke in what he did ard with.
out self consciousness; that he had
no moods but those Of action.
/. A Man Without Raproaeh.
Nor did men know him for what
he really was until the war was over.
His own officers then found they
had something more to learn" Of the
man they had fought under for six
gearrand those six, all Of them,
such as lay bare the characters Of
men. |
What remained to be- done during
the two trying, anxious years, 1881
and 1888, seemed as; If intended for q
supreme and final test of the quail
ties of the man whose genius and
character had made the Revolution
possible. AT the end Of 4 long civil
war;" said the Marquis de Chastellux.
with a noble pride for his friend. he
had nothing with which he could re.
proach himself; but it was these last
years which were to crown this per.
feet praise with it's full meaning,
In the absence Of any real govern.
ment, Washington proved almost the
only prop of authority, and law. What
the crisis was no one knew quite %
thoroughly or so particularly az he'
! It consisted in the ominous fact that
the army was the only organized and
central power in the country. ana that
! It had deep reason tor discomfort and
characterization. s.:" :
When once it had served its pur
post greatly at Yorktown, and the wal
seemed ended at a stroke, the country
turned from It In indinerenc II
without. money; talked Of dishandinl
it without further ceremony, and with
no provision made for arrears Of pay;
seemed almost IN CHALLENGE 1t To In