The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-18
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Washlngtons aide and onss II
lad OF twenty, and knoNaoa
tnose must rule who sss. W
such a chief. He knew S'l's
ngton must first be eo,U
won; did not for a monsa -'s0
the president held the =. o'k
master; was aware thar ~
had prospered both in tha on
in the adoption because = ssE;s ,-AfE
they spoke was the purnoss p Ol<CE-1
ton most cherished. Wssss ne
adopted the fiscal rneasr-sSe
own; Hamilton's strenpt5 HEN
having mis- confidence ana I'll II,
washington and Jsif.,,. ~I
Jefferson had SLOWLY hAOI
that leadership in the c.h,' - ~
be had, not by winning = z
the counsellors who sat =
winning Washington. Thu, Z
man asked counsel upon s,
his o own w 'G indement a. but M pssrsaks
He had chosen Hamilton EA6
knew his views. jefferson -
cause he knew his inaueDes vi
and experience in affairs m N', =,
did test Jefferson's views !. en0'
them less to his liking than
pected. WaterIlns
He had taken Jefferson dir.
France, where for five years heh,.s -
watching revolution come m and
hurried from stage to stapa NJ :,
statesmen who were masters II CIV
art and practice of freaao. ID NEs'
those who had presided in n.
sells of America, but by deusr, Caes'
and philosophers rather; and ~ Seoeh'''
tie air of that age of change h,s :. sons
into the mans thought. He h,s w. an
back a philosophical radical - II sood al
than a statesman. He had - T. and O
learn, in the practical air Of Ans. and q
what plain and steady polcy -, ~ you
serve him to win hard-headed us " :
to his following; and Washs,r.I
found him guide who needed wa jus
ing. .eiion
Foreign affairs, over which 4 :. ocala n
Jeffersons duty to preside. BEN,
a sudden to turn upon the pol1uo Ar' y
France, where Jefferson's thourh, =, End for
so much engaged. The year llB Smse az
which America gained selfposssstsI :
and set up government soberly Ma
ned to last, was the year in Via Lost
France lost self-possession and ssw iaee;
upon a wild quest for liberty VIA ~ no ~,
was to cost her both her tradunl &c a
polity and all the hopes she had d, lass e,
new one. In that year broke D iurned
storm of the French revolution. fla.-a
1t was a dangerous infection Ia
went abroad from France in those tx MI
DAYS of her ardor. and nowhere - irOm a
it more likely to spread than in Ana lam,
lea.
But Washington's vision in aEsn
was not obscured. He had not Id DliiO"
revolutionary armies without lean mat
ing what revolution meant "The rev. most
olution which has been effected Mis-
France" he said, els of so wonderhi sOnvil
nature that man can hardly real ui we
iZe the fact"-his calm tones ringing nat {
strangely amidst the enthusiastic Ga
of the time. Il fear, though Il hg The
gone triumphantly through the fra M
paroxysm, it is not the last 1t has % pad.
encounter before matters are hnalI Deria
settled. The revolution is Of TO nen,s
great a magnitude to be effected nj zinc
short a space and with the loss Of liam
little blood" all
He hoped, but did not believe tha
it would run it's course without laA FL
disorders; and he meant, in any case weei
to keep America from the infecn@ nell
She was herself but Gin convass viii
cent state" as he said, after her owl lon
struggle. She was too observant Sill Va,
moreover, of European politics aA pou
opinion, like a province rather ual
like a nation-inclined to take soa
as If she were still a child Of the N Y
ropean family, who had flung ava Of
from her mother England to cling Of
pique to an ancient foe! De
Washington's first and almost slnS5 ION
object. at every point OF policy, was" EN-
make of the provincial states Oh w On
Union a veritable nation, indepenosDe wo
at any rate, and ready to be slss. Ais
when its growth should come, ana 70
acknowledge. Every true lIisn.
to this country" he said, at last nus
see and feel that the policy OF W "a
not to embroil ourselves whitman! NJ
ton whatever, but to avoid tnen W Al
putes and their politics, and, II w ST
will harass one another, to avian ".
selves of the neutral conduct we ns''
adopted. Twenty years peace VIZ
such an increase of population anu
sources as we have right 10 eAp.s.
added to our remote situation rom =
Earring powers, will in all prooaDnn
enable us, in a just cause, 10 Dlu
fiance to any power on eartn'
such were his thought and puiT
from the first. -
81 want an American character
cried, that the powers OF Euivr
may be convinced we act iot VI
selves, and not for others" he "a
charge of a nation in the maklns' -