Show peculiar fitness it la the conclusion almost unanimous among historians that george washington was the only man among the fathers of the republic fitted mentally and temperamentally to carry the resolution to victory the tremendous burden not only of creating and organizing an army from raw and undisciplined volunteers in the face of a strong enemy but also of organizing gan izing the patriotism ot the country through voluminous correspondence with the governors and leading men of the colonies and of maintaining both organizations through weary beirs of military disasters political bicke rings and petty jealousies would hae crumpled the back of any other man the revolution produced lie had to be nt one and the same time general diplomat and statesmen stat esmin |