Washington the Founder of the Nation

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Excerpt from Washington the Founder of the Nation: An Address Read Before the Rhode Island Historical Society The judicious historian of our day will therefore mostly confine himself to the chronicle of facts, and will make only the broadest generalizations and the most obvious inferences. It has been often said that the time is not yet come when it is possible to assign to Washington his just rank among historical personages. But I am persuaded that even now, whoever will carefully study the elements of his personal character, the situation and relations of the people of this country at the close of the revolution, the nature of the problem which lay before them as they addressed themselves to the task of settling the plan of their government, and finally the character and fabric of the government which they have established and maintained, will find himself drawn to the conclusion that the relation of Washington to our national affairs was different and superior in kind, as well as in degree, to that of any other public man of the time, that he has placed the stamp of his own character upon the framework of our government and upon the spirit and purpose of our people, and that the common voice of all men speaks but the language of sober truth when he is called "the father of his country." I purpose briefly to outline some of the grounds for this conclusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.