The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-26


the tenderness
due TO fellow-citizens and brethren. but even
those execrable parricides. whose counsels and
aid have deluged their country with blood. nave
been protected from the fury OF Justly enraRed
people, Far from compelling permitting their
assistance, ! 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 more honorable. than that which
flows from the interrupted choice OF a brave and
free people. the purest source and original foun-
tain of all power. Far from making II a plea for
purity, mind of true magnanimity and enlarged
ideas would comprehend and respect IT,
What may have been the ministerial views
which have precipitated the present crisis, Lex
ington. Concord and Charlestown 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 Washngton's high personal character, and
his lack OF small weaknesses. his correspondence
all bears testimony.
AS a statesman, Washington was sure. as
broadminded and as determined he was as q
general All his letters to his friends and TO those
who served him show that his efforts al,
rected toward the prevention. not only OF entan
Cling alliances abroad, but to calming internal dis
sensons and directing the business of the nation
into healthy channels.
For a time the agricultural interests and the
merchants saw the growth OF manufactures with
jealousy and distrust But Washington yielded &c
no economic faIlacies Scarcely had the Revolu
ton been brought TO a successful termination
when he wrote to the Delaware Society for Pro
noting Domestic Manufactures. In 1898. 40 fol
lows:
"The promoting OF domestic manufactures will
in my conception, be among the first consequences
which may naturally be expected TO flow from ar
energetic government For myself. having m
equal regard for the prosperity OF the farming
trading and manufacturing interests. win only
observe that | cannot conceive the extension OF
the latter ESQ far as 1t may afford employment &c
a great number Of hands which would be other
wise In a manner ide) can be detrimental 20 the
former. On the contrary. the concurrence OF
virtuous individuals, and the combination OF eco
nomie societies. TO rely much 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 commeudable. 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 a de
cded preference TO the products and fabrics OF
America whatsoever II may be done without in.
volving an unreasonable expense or very great in
convenience"
Along educational lines washington's ideas
were equally sure and far-seeing When the fed
eral commissioners In 1895 were considering the
erection OF a unworthy, he wrote 10 them fol
lows:
1T has always been a source Of serious refec
ton and sincere regret with me that the youth OF
the United States should be sent 20 foreign coun
tries for the purpose OF education Although there
are doubtless many under these circumstances
who escape the danger Of contracting principles
unfavorabe 10 republican government, yet We
ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent
and susceptible minds from being too strongly and
too early prepossessed in favor Of other political
systems before they capable OF approaching
their own
For this reason have greatly wished 20 see
a plan adopted by which the arts sciences and
bellesletters could be taught In their fullest eK
tent thereby embracing all the advantages oil
European tuition. with the means OF acquiring tbs
liberal knowledge which IL necessary TO qualify
our citizens for the erigencies of pablic as wei
as private life: and tA HIGH with me Is consider
alton Of great magnitudel by assembling the youth
from the different PARTS Of this rising republic
contributing from their intercourse and inter
change q Information TO the removal OF pre-
judices. which might perhaps sometimes ariss
IRON local circumstances
These few extracts have been selected az ran
dem from Washingtpns correspondence extend
ing over period Of % years n they stimulate
inst fep ftFFons TO make frsthaBd study o.
the life and writings OF the father Of ths coun
try they viii have fulfilled their mission