People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — WISE AND GOOD AND GREAT. [ARTICLE]

WISE AND GOOD AND GREAT.

Thomas Jefferson’s Tribute to the Character of George Washington. • The best character of George Washington that eveT has been drawn was penned by Thomas Jefferson in 1814. Jefferson, as the reader may remember, differed from President Washington on all the leading political issues of his second term, and there was for some years the coolness between them which naturally arises from political differences during periods of excitement But Washington had then been dead fourteen years, and Jefferson was an old man, living in retirement at his seat in Virginia. The passions of 17S#8 were, extinct in the bosern of the great demA-at; and it was then that, in a privtTO letter to one of his New York friends, he put on record his deliberate judgment of Washington, which, he say.-t. “I would vouch at the judgment seat ofGod, having been formed on an acquaintance of thirty years. ” “His Integrity,” says Mr. Jefferson, “was most pure, bis justice the most loQexiblo I have ever known; no motives of Interest or consanguinity, of friendship or haired, being able to bias h's decision. He was, indeed, ’j every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man His temper was naturally Irritable and high toned; but reflection and resolution had obtained a flrm and habitual ascendency over it. If ever, however, it broke its bounds, he was most tremendous in his wrath. In his expenses be was honorable, but exact; liberal in contributions to whatever promised utility, but frowning and unyielding on al. visionary projects, and ail un worthy tails on his charity. His heart was not warm in its affections; bid he exactly calculated every man’s value, and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it His person, you know, was line, his stature exactly what one would wish; his deportment easy, erect and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on ho.-sei bael:." Header, here you have the true Washington. I have become, from necessity, extremely familiar with his works, his actions, the political conflicts that raged about him, anil the attitud a of the man toward friend and foe. Knowing him thus intimately, I feel the literal truth of Mr. Jefferson’s language when he says: “He was, in every sense of the. words, a wise, a good and a great man,” With regard to Washington, we may abandon without any fear that more familiar knowledge will modify our opinion or lessen the warmth of our esteem.—James Par ton, la N. Y. Ledger.

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