Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1902 — Washington in 1797. [ARTICLE]

Washington in 1797.

Isaac Weld, a contemporary of Washington, wrote as follows of the President at the close of his second term: “His chest is full, and his limbs, though rather slender, well shaped and muscular. His head is small, in which he resembles the make of a number of his countrymen. His eyes are of a light gray color, and in proportion to the length of his face his nose is long. Mr. Stuart, the eminent portrait painter, told me that there were features in his face totally different from what he ever observed in any other human being. The sockets for the eyes, for instance, are larger than he ever met with before and the upper part of the nose broader. All his features, he observed, were indicative of the strongest and most ungovernable passions, and had he been born In the forests it was his opinion that he would have been the fiercest man among the savage tribes.” It Is a world where all men pay for their mistakes — The Supreme Sacrlfice-