The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-07-11

common run OF people HuSt ledIu "
respect it in the persons Of its officers.
But he was equally careful to find out
in advance of every appointment what
the man whom he wished to ask
thought of the new government and
wished its future to be.
Many to whom he offered appoint
ment declined; minor Offices seemed
most to go a-begging amongst men OF
assured position such as it was his
object to secure. 1t needed all the
tact ard patience he could command
to draw about him BODY of men such
as the country must look up to and
revere. His letters again went abroad
by the hundred, and, as so often be-
fore, to persuade men to their cuty,
build bulwark Of right opinion round
about the government, make his pur-
poses clear and his plans effective.
He would spare no pains to make the
government both great and permanent.
Tours Eastern States.
In October, 1889, his principal ap-
pointments all made, the government
in full operation, and affairs standing
still till congress should meet again,
he went upon a four weeks tour
of the eastern states, to put the
people in mind there, by his own pres
ence, of the existence and dignity or
the federal government, and to make
trial of their feeling toward it. They
received him with cordial enthusiasm,
for he was secure of their love and adj
miration; and he had once more
royal progress from place to place all
the way to far New Hampshire and
back again.
He studiously contrived to make it
everywhere felt, nevertheless, by ev-
cry turn of ceremonial and behavior,
that he had come, not as the hero OF
the Revolution, but as the president
of the United States.
At Boston Governor Hancock
sought by cordial notes and pleas of
illness to force Washington to waive
the courtesy of first call from him,
and so give the executive OF Massa-
chusetts precedence, if only for old
friendships sake. But Washington
would not be so defeated of his err
rand; forced the perturbed old patriot
to come to him, sWathed as he was in
flannels and borne upon mems Shout
ders up the stairs, received him with
grim courtesy, and satisfied the Cos
sips of the town once and for all that
precedence belonged to the federal
governmental any rate, so long as
George Washington was president.
Having seen him and feted him, the
eastern towns had seen and done hon.
age to the new authority set over
them. Washington was satisfied, and
returned with noticeable accession
of spirits to the serious work of fed
eral administration.
Hamilton His Support.
No man stood closer to him in his
purpose to strengthen and give pres
tige to the government than Hamil-
ton; and no man was able to discover
the means with surer genius. Ham
ilton knew who the well-wishers of the
new government we're, whence it's
strength was to be drawn, what it
must do to approve itself great and
permanent, with an insight and thor
oughness Washington himself could
not match: for Hamilton knew Wash
ington and the seats of his strength in
the country as that selfforgetful man
himself could not.
He knew that it was the CONNER
cial classes of the country-such men
as he had himself dwelt amongst at
the great port at New York-who were
bound by self-interest to the new gov
eminent, which promised them a
single policy in trade, in the stead of
policies a half-score; and that the
men who were standing to its support
out of a reasoned prudence, out of a
high-minded desire to secure good gov
eminent and place of consideration
for their country amongst the nations
of the world, we're individuals merely,
to be found only in small groups here
and there, where a special light shone
in some minds.
He knew that Washington was
loved most for his national character
and purpose amongst the obserVaht
middle classes of substantial people
in the richer counties of Pennsylva-
mia, New Jersey, New York and New
England, while his neighbors in the
south loved him with an individual af-
lection only, and rather as their hero
than as their leader in affairs.
He saw that the surest way to get
both popular support and interna-
tional respect was to give to the gov
eminent at once and in the outset a
place of command in the business and
material interests OF the country. Such
a policy every man could comprehend.
and great body of energetic and in
fluential men would certainly support;
that alone could make the government
seem real from the first-a veritable
power, not an influence and shadow
merely.
Here was a man, unquestionably,
who had quick genius in affairs; and
Washington gave him leave and initt
alive with such sympathy and COM
prehension and support as only a ma