Show FOR corthe PESSI MIS it is bomal anna 03 o 3 nel tome times provoking to road and lear hear tho doleful jeremi jeremiads ads of 0 those who maina initio tain lain that the whole world is n goice 09 straight ah to tho the bad and particularly that tho the tol state Govern and pool poop fleig leia go 80 corrupt compared with what it was via io in the 4 good old days dyo of madison Mad isoo ota aid bat it is ia altogether amo to I 1 urn to the records koorda of those thoo days day and nj gas ithac ii hit thoad worthies thought of each cabb other no sooner wea was tho the war ended than UP A broca 0 of ors attil anil political bom was wae far biser than ihan most or that in our day of one cl eliam of theia wash ington wrote I 1 thy e tto ot alio united islas to li on rt tad and whoever up 5 thu lit alicy e y an cut lutcis of jaklic dd ty and nd c iho a 0 of the 91 they ii u 16 ed to 0 b harald fall 11 bobu 0 p and ud led P pau 95 a ernna ir nna an li as ud so fell ell ui atut i liu cu ba d defio 0 U t through ous a 1 pifer a fee money be c bj ai leu lenilts or 0 cl t lam IB chu they ey broke apen anon the prisons nod armed ibb to organic a rebellion against lite infant government they brovo ably judges and publio public prop otly arty which caused jefferson ti write from rom carh the reputation of america is ia of each a character chri clr in 1 korora cropo as to IMS be liello to its citizens alexander hamilton camo came out in sin an attack against everybody who differed with bi th hlin him EO ED red ml full of that it furnished material for ton ion years angry contra versy no it taa with costico bo slid of 0 m that wo we alto I 1 itin lowest solo BOO ol of cegred tiou aioo madigan retorted with fine domo crati directness aqil and as a result of his hii poli policy loyo charge I 1 that hat america hals that il i is not ro ejected by its in friends fri aads that its ill tuo one mies doride deride it and thit t it is u to tile tecil or of overy every nation that wants wanta 0 mccu late la 0 upon its enting ent inglai lol condition evea the courtly oli all unitarian job join nAd adinie ands rather thought there ought to 10 1 ic o an aa clerval hell bell for some esme ot of his colleagues ia coerce Conr ce and returning homo home piously ex presses a wish in his tint that gal go 1 in uis loito wisdom and mercy will cotor permit another sach each a sot act ol of scoundrels to como come to golber charles Lh ares thompson Thomp soa familar through thion gL a long ions lilo life with wilh all the emi rent men of that time collo itol 0 o I 1 in ia his hi old age all hn his and journals ana D found so 20 much criticism in them that be had tho iho whole destroyed I 1 he said faid that le he retracted nothing theta written but tho the great iaea of the ibo revolution warn passing avray the country idolized aall it was via bolter better it shoula do so BO bis and paranoid perso oal knowl linoir ledga or them given ia hi his journal would dos troy this th n reverence ard aad the bonds bonda of the lie Union therefore not a word of it should over sea the light I 1 and it never did tho the fino fine christian christiaa character of george washington u is a frequent basis of awful compa comparine rinn with the easy indifference of present day ml era crt but bat it is ii plain history which nobody can deny thit that washington swore ran raft race boises cards danced and drank wine vine queer sort eort of a christian ho he would bo now i da that the mao mae was pro eminently grand in id h his n publia ohmmeter is unquestionably tru but why shoo ald wo we foolishly thrust upon him personal qualities abiah Us best beet tad and most intimate friends ti boada tell us oj be did tool not possess posses the little hatchet story was wag long ngo profil tobo tai bt a rare pnra of 0 perron parton weems to help the it ile of lis hu little p peddlers daibes lile of was washington hington HO he wi was a fino cao old virginin Vir gioia gentle mao inan with the chott faults and virtues of 0 that almu but bat the tha trouble is we va look nt lit tho the men of 0 th tatt at period through a sort of hiie which the intellectual sight fad and produces a moril moral mirage that we this 31 be so 80 truc is of eft a wonder for it is ii only two generations elect they lived and yet halo of antiquity surrounds that hat era en which glorifies even tho the hurat lest sni ana mca inea coet noet bad aid poetry poe and patriotism combine to heighten houghten the bright and aad hide tho the dark shades hades of character until tho the mau ot of young americans americana really know no moro more about the vatia and aal W recall lifo life of wa abington bing ton than of thit that of no mulas both are ro founders heroes and as fir far 01 u pertains to our conception of a real character chir acter is ia as much a myth ti aa J william tell tho truth no doubt is and both optimist and would seo see it if they coall iby milo aside prejudice that this country and nl all other countries hc h c always boost beott bad baa enough lint but as i a general rule there is ii a slight im pr ment tho notion that crime deceit and ato ro on tho the is MUY shown to bo be unfounded and comparison of the late war with former onea once shows theta thera i is a much bravery and patriotism in the country as there ever eter was there is ia evil eril enough everywhere god knows and nil all good men hato bavo enough to do but that we are worse on the than our fathers there fa is an exploded idem idea |