Show George Washington First President of the United States i Nature and fortune Never Made i- i A MadeA Better Man Thorns Thom I 1 I W flat t r rr r rM K T Tn ONE of the recent biographers biographers n- n nONE raphers of Washington has given gohen us ua 60 so just and true truen n a picture lecture of or the man the man as ONE th t drawn by Jefferson more than a is century ago agor I 1 think I knew General i Washington on Intimately and thoroughly he lie said Ills mind was great creat and powerful without beIng of the very ery first order his penetration penetration tion strong though not so 80 acute as that of Newton or Bacon l or Locke and as far for as he saw MW no judgment was ever sounder It was slow In operation being little aided by in- in In Invention or Imagination but sure In Inco co lon II Hence the common reo re- remay re may mal II c of or his officers of or the advantage advantage tage Inge tage he derived from counci councils of war where hearing all aU suggestions he selected whatever was best He lIe was Incapable of or fear meetIng meet meet- meetIng meeting ing persona personal dangers with the calmest unconcern Perhaps the strongest fe feature turo In lo his character was prudence never acting until every circumstance every consider consider- atton atlon was maturely weighed l re- re Hearing All Suggestions He H Select Selected ed Whatever Was Waa feat B t training rainIng If It he be saw a doubt but but when once decided gol going through with his purpose whatever obstacles obstacle op- op opposed op opposed posed His ms heart was not warn WArm la In Its affections but he lie exactly calculated every mans man's value and gave Clive him n a solid soUd esteem proportioned to tu It It It may bo W true he ho said that never did nature and fortune combI combine more perfectly to maken make a great man and to place him In the same sume sum con coo constellation with whatever worthies have merited from tram roan everlasting Ing ing remembrance After Arter all has lias been en be o said Mid It wu was Washington's character which was supremely great which was wag responsible responsible Bible sible for the greatness of his achievements In the Revolution It was the tile trust In Washington oo which held together a faltering and dis- dis discouraged dis discouraged people which tided the country over the darkest hours which was responsible for Cor the eventual victory After peace had b been n won woo It was this trust In Washington whIch made It possible for tor a disunited people to attain enduring strength and unit unity ubera lIa have bare been t e n greet greet- er generals LuiJt ton great greater er statesmen there has hns been heen no greater eater character When the writ writ- writIngs writings ings logs of his detractors have passed Into obscurity his memory will re- re remain re remain main what It has always been a sacred It legacy acy to the American peo peo- people people people Washington's Family George Washington's mother was Mary Ball Ball said to have been beena a lineal descendant from John Bali Bal medieval champion of the rights right of man roan Her mother was Mary Montague who aa as the widow Johnson was as married to Colonel Joseph BalL Her grand grand- grandfather grandfather grandfather father was Colonel William Ball who emigrated to Virginia in 16 1650 and settled in Lancaster county George Georgo Washington's lather father was Augustine Washing Washing- Washington Washington Washington ton ton the grandson of Lawrence nce Washington and the great grand son of John Washington who came from England about 1650 and settled in Westmoreland county Virginia The English ancestry has been traced back through Laurenda Laurentia Wasl Washington father of Lawrence several gen gen- generations generations gen generations to the Sulgrave branch of the family |