ON THE CHARACTER OF GENERAL WASHINGTON. 



WHOEVER has perused the preceding Letters will, I trust, concur with me in the 

 following reflections. 



1. That nothing could possibly place the character of this distinguished statesman 

 in a more estimable light, than that of beholding the same individual, whose 

 military exploits had spread his fame over the universe, and who had been invested 

 with supreme power in the country where he was born, in the midst of all his 

 various public avocations, carrying on an extensive correspondence with the nat 

 of a distant country, on agricultural and other general inquiries of a similar natuL 



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2. That those who are blest with a reflecting and philosophic mind, must 

 contemplate with pleasure and delight a person, elevated by the voice of his fellow- 

 citizens to the summit of political authority, who, instead of wishing to aggrandize 

 himself, and to extend his power, was anxiously bent to quit that situation, to which 

 so many others would have fondly aspired, and to return to the comfort and 

 enjoyment of private life; belying thus the insinuations of those malignant spirits 

 who are perpetually railing against the talents and virtues which, conscious of 

 wanting themselves, they do not believe that others can possess. 



3. Is there, on the whole, any individual, either in ancient or modern history, 

 who has prouder claims to distinction and pre-eminence, than the great character 



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