Show I was the practice of the old com mcAualors to account for every statement state-ment in old documents on the most matt rorrct material and practical basis A survival of this method Is found In the conjecture by Grosvenor and the editor of the Mcmphls Appeal that Washington refused to con alder the third term because he was afraid he could not be elected I is sad whenImagination casts Itself 1 altogether alto-gether free from fact denies the record of history and flouts the reasons given by the person chiefly concerned |