The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-21


NGLAND refused to keep her par
- of the agreement and relinquisl
II the western posts. She levied
IL commercial war against the coun-
try, besides. without fear OF re-
prisal; for congress had no power tc
regulate trade. and the states were toe
jealous OF each other TO corporate IN
this or any other matter.
English statesmen had consented to
give up the colonies, and recognize theii
independence as a nation, rather than
face any longer tho world in arms: but
they now looked to see them presently
drop back into their hands again. out
OF sheer heIplessness and hopeless div-
sion In counsel; and there were observ-
ant men In America who deemed the
thing possible, though It brought an in
tolera bic lre into their blood 10 think
OF 1t.
Other nations. too, were fast conceiv-
ing a like contempt for the confedera-
ton. 1t was making no provision for
the payment OF the vast sums OF money
st had borrowed abroad, in France and
Holland and Spain; and Ii could not
make any. 1t could only ask the states
for money, and must count itself for
tunate TO get enough TO pay even the
interest on its debts. 1t was this that
foreign courts were finding out, that the
confederation was a mere government
or supplication." as Randolph had dubbed
It.. and its credit broke utterly down.
DISUNION'S DANGERS.
Frenchman and Spaniard alike would
only have laughed in contemptuous de-
rision TO see the whole fabric go 10
themselves with surmises as TO what
plunder IL would afford The states
which lay neighbors TO each other were
cmbroiled IN boundary disputes. and
were fallen TO levying duties on each
They were individually in debt be-
sides, and many OF them resorting to
issues of irredeemable paper money to
relieve themselves OF the inevitable tax
alton that must sooner or later pay their
reckonings.
we are either a united people, or We
are not So, cried Washington IF the
former, lei us in ali matters of general
concern act as nation which has a
national character TO support; ii we are
not, let US no longer act farce by pre-,
tending 10 IT." AS the months passed
it began to look as II the farce might
oe turned into a tragedy.
The troubles OF the country, though he
hlled his letters with them and wrung
his heart for phrases OF protest and per-
suaslon that would tell effectually in the
deep labor OF working out the sufficient
remedy OF reused and united opinion.
though lie deemed them personal 10 him
self. and knew his own fame in danger
TO be undone by them, did not break
the steady self-possession Of Washing
toms life at Mount Vernon.
It's astonishing the packets OF let
tcrs that daily come for him, from all
parts Of the world" exclaimed an Eng
lish visitor; but ii was not till he had
struggled to keep pace with his corre-
= & SlCf tod far. 0RaI
half that he employed q secretary TO
help him. Letters or friendship require
no study he wrote TO General Knox:
the communications are easy. and al
lowances are expected and made. This
is not the case with those that require
researches. consideration, recollection,
and the de- knows what to prevent
error, and TO answer the ends for which
they are written"
He grew almost docile. nevertheless,
under the Sratuitous tasks of courtesy
thrust upon him. His gallantry, bred in
him since a boy, the sense OF duty TO
which he was born, his feeling that what
ne had done had In some sort committed
him to serve his countrymen and his
friends everywhere, though 1t were only
IN answering questions. disposed him to
sacrifice his comfort and his privacy to
everyone who had the slightest claim
upon his attention. He even found sit
ting for his portrait grow easy at last
In fol. a penny, in for a pound. Is
an old adage," he laughed, writing to
Francis Hopkinson. II am 80 hack
neyed to the touches OF the painters
pencil that ] am now altogether at their
beck; and sit like Patience on a mon
ument' whilst they are delineating the
lines OF my face At first / was i'm
patient at the request, and as restive
under the operation as a colt is OF the
saddle. The next time / submitted very
reluctantly, but with less founcing. Now
no oray horse moves more readily TO
his thill than ! do to the painters
chair"
WORKS WITH HIS LABORERS.
Besides the failure Of the public credit,
II concerned him 10 note the fact that.
though he kept a hundred COWS. he was
obliged 10 buy butter for his nnumer-
able guests. He saw 10 il that there
should be at least a very definite and ef-
lcient government upon his own estate
and, when there was need, put his own
hand to the work.
He often works with his men him