The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-06-27

He had got his imns...-
command from her. A -
told her that MARS ce,,. s,s9
up at the tavern. ~
Go and tell George 70 60
stantiy." she had commsns.. -
had come. masterfuI mar = -
was. @Hl
He had felt every old as...
every old allegiance renew 49,.
saw former neighbors crO~s
him; and that little gllmn.. ~
ginia had refreshed him lIts
deeply, and as If il renewss "
nature, as only silent m,n -. =
freshed. But a few days in -
burg and at Mount Vernon ~
been only an incident OF csms.
only a grateful pause on 4 -.
Back to Private In,
Now at last he had con.
keep his home and be 4
again, as he had not been th...
years.
1t was not the same vlr.,s
even the same home and nnls,,-
he had gone from. that w.
came back to when the -.
done.
he had left Mount vcrm :
care OF Lund Washington. his -.
while the war lasted. and h,a
gotten amidst all his letter w.
send seasOnable directions ,,s
tain a constant oversight ~
management of his estate
Rebukes His Nephsw
It was part of his genius 10 "A.
for everything, and Mount venn
suffered something less than 4,
binary hazards and neglects 4
1t had suffered less upon o..
sion. indeed. than its proud
could have found it in bis hs-
wish.
In the spring of 1871 several r.
vessels had come pillaging vi,.
Potomac, and the anxious Lurl
RECALLED their officers with M
ments from Mount Vernon Il
them off from mischief. IT woal
been a less painful circumsiaru
me-" his incorporating uncls
written him, Ito have heard *
consequence of your non-con,
with their request, they had
my house and laid the planisia
ruin. You ought to have cons
yourself as my representative
Kept though il was from 81
however, the place had miierel
things for lack of his persona a
There was some part OF the al
be over again that had confro1ia
when he came 10 take possesEn
the old plantation with hts hFlis
the neglects of the French va.
Finds Virginia a State
But Virginia was more changsi
Mount Vernon. He had len Ha
ony, at odds with a royal gOFts
he returned TO find il siaiA
Benjamin Harrison. that stout q
man and coed planter, for CORR
by the free suffrage Of his ieleE
ginians.
There had been no radleal =
with the aristocratic traditions :
past. Mr.. Harrison's handsons
at Lower Brandon lay where u
reaches of the James marked -
est regions of Virginias ils
broad. half-feudal estates; Wheft
were good wine and plate urea
table. and gentlemen kept old 60
bright and honored in the obssH1
A Great Change IN AHa'n
But the face of affairs bad
changed. nevertheless. The ole
alton of statesmen had PASSED
almost with the colony. ane
er generation was in the saol
withstanding a gray-halrea hla'
and there.
Richard Bland Rad died n ~
OF the Declaration; Peyton IA
had not lived 10 see il.
Edmund Pendleton, after Pr
over Virginia's making as a q
chairman of her Revolutionary
tee of safety, was nov via
from active affairs 70 the psl
fine figure married by a fali 30
horse. his old power as an -
transmitted into the cooler il
the judge.
Patrick Henry. the ardent
the Revolution. had been eheE-
states first governor. in the yel'
Declaration of Independents.
years later Thomas jefferson
ceeded him IN ONCE, the pl'.'
radical of times of change; tns
Of Mr.. Harrison had but comp'.
round of the new variety ~ -
Men who. like Richard hels
had counseled revolution ~
breaking of old bonds. were no.
things at the front of virginia
ness; and younger men. OF ie
power of origination equal % =
were pressing forward as 4
a new generation to the stAss
had known nothing but inoli
and a free field of statesmals.
Among the rest, james
only a little more than ten ~,
of college, but already done -