J4 EULOGY ON GENERAL WASHINGTON, 



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mild principles of religion and philanthropy : to provide 

 for the national fecurity, by fuitable military eftablifh- 

 ments: to found the fafety of the United States, on 



the bads of fyflematic and folid arrangement : to guard 



ngainft infra(flions of the laws of nations : . to main- 

 tain a friendly intercourfe with foreign powers : to 

 exhibit that liability and wifdom in the public counfels, 

 which fhould be a jufl ground of public confidence : to 

 adopt meafures for the accomplifhment of oNr duties to 

 the reft of the world, and create a capacity of exading 



from them the difcharge of their duties towards us 



to maintain to the United States their due rank among 

 the nations of the Earth : to vindicate the majefty of 

 the laws, againfl violence and infurredion : to turn 

 the machinations of the wicked to the confirming of the 



conftitution: to extln2ui{h the caufes of external differences. 



on terms compatible wnth national rights and national 

 honor : to mingle in the operations of government every 

 degree of moderation and tendernefs, which national 

 juflice, dignity and fafety might permit, and to exemplify 



the pre-eminence of a £iQe government, by all the attri 



butes, which might win the afFedions of its eitizens and 

 command the refped of the w^orld.* — Thefe were the 

 inomentous purfuits^ which occupied his elevated mind, 



and engaged his warmeft affedions : for thefe purpofes, 

 he invited the aid and co-operation of the enlightened 

 counfels of the Union j and, in fpite of the petulance 



of oppofition, or the efFufions of fadiou, his profperoui 



♦ See Washington's Speeches to Congrefs, from which the above 

 ^mmary of his prefidential purfuiu is feleaed, with little variation from his 

 own i mprefliv e language ^ 



