Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-13
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the tenderness
due to fellow-citzens and brethren, but even
those execrabIe PARTICLES. whose counsels and
aid have deluged their country with blood, have
been protected from the fury of justly enraged
people. Far frorl compelling or permitting their
assistance, | am embarrassed with the NUMBERS
who crowd to our camp, animated with the purest
principles of virtue and love to their country.
you affect sir to despise all rank not derived
from the same source with your own. cannot
conceive one more honorable, than that which
flows from the interrupted choice of brave and
free people, the purest source and original foun-
tain Of all power. Far from making it a plea for
purity, a mind of true magnanfmity and enlarged
ideas would comprehend and respect it.
What may have been the ministerial views
which have precpitated the present crisis Lex
ington, Concord and Charlestown can best declare.
May that God, to whom YOU too, appeal, Judge be
tween America and you. Under his providence,
those who influence the councils of America, and
all the other inhabitants of the United Colonies,
at the hazard of their lives are determined to
hand down to posterity those just and invaluable
privileges which they received from their an
cestors"
To Washington's high personal character, and
hissssser !. all Weaknesses. his CORRESPONDENCE
all B6e essNn ! Fs sess.slony
AS a statesman, Washington was sure, as
broadminded and as determined as he was as a
general All his letters to his friends and to those
who served him show that his efforts were di-
rected toward the prevention, not only of entan-
Cling alliances abroad but to calming internal dis
sensions and directing the business Of the nation
into healthy channels.
For time the agricultural interests and the
merchants saw the growth of manufactures with
jealousy and distrust. But Washington yielded to
no economic fallacies Scarcely had the Revolu-
tion been brought to a successful termination
when he wrote to the Delaware Society for Pro
mating domestic Manufactures in 1898 as fol-
lows:
THE promoting of domestic manufactures will,
in my conception, be among the first consequences
which may naturally be expected to flow from an
energetic government For myself, having an
equal regard for the prosperity of the farming,
trading and manufacturing interests, will only
observe that | cannot conceive the extension of
the latter ESQ far as it may afford employment to
a great number OF hands which would be other
wise in a manner idle) can be detrimental to the
former. On the contrary, the concurrence OF
virtuous individuals, and the combination of eco
nomic societies. to rely much as possible on
the resources of our own country, may be product
i've of great national advantages by establishing
the habits of industry and economy The OBJ
jects of your institution are, therefore. in my
opinion highly commendable; and you will permit
me to add. gentlemen, that / propose to demon
strate the sincerity of my opinion this subject
by the uniformity of my practice in giving de-
cded preference to the products and fabrics OF
America whatsoever it may be done without In
volving an unreasonable expense very great in
convenience"
Along educational lines Washington's ideas
were equally sure and far-seeng.. When the fed
eral commissioners in 1895 were considering the
erection of unworthy, he wrote to them as fol-
lows:
ut has always been source of serious ref1ec-
ton and sincere regret with me that the youth of
the United States should be sent to foreign coun-
tries for the purpose of education Although there
are doubtless many under these circumstances,
who escape the danger of contracting principles
unfavorable to republican government, yet we
ought to deprecate the hazard att ending ardent
and susceptible minds from being too strongly and
too early prepossessed in favor of other political
systems before they are capable of approaching
their own
For this reason | have greatly wished to see
a plan adopted by which the arts. sciences and
belles-letters could be taught in their fullest ex
tent, thereby embracing all the advantages OF
European tuition, with the means of acquiring the
liberal knowledge which is necessary to qualify
our citizens for the exigencies of public as well
as private life; and (which with me is a consider
alton of great magnitude) by assembling the youth
from the different parts of this rising republic
contributing from their intercourse and inter
change Of information to the removal of pre-
JUDGES. which might perhaps sometimes arise
from local circumstances"
These few extracts have been selected at ran.
dom from Washington's correspondence, extend
ing over period of % years. If they stimulate
just a few persons to make frst-hand study OF
the life and writings of the father of this cosz
Try they win have falflled their EzissiaR.