04 TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA : 
hedges on either side from the farm yard and 
garden. As for the garden, it wears exactly 
the appearance of a nursery, and with every 
thing about the place indicates that more at- 
tention is paid to profit than to pleasure. The 
ground in the rear of the house is also laid out 
in a lawn, and the declivity of the Mount* to¬ 
wards the water, in a deer park. 
The rooms in the house are very small, ex¬ 
cepting one, which has been built since the 
close of the war for the purpose of entertain¬ 
ments. All of these are very plainly furnished, 
and in many of them the furniture is drop¬ 
ping to pieces. Indeed, the close attention 
which General Washington has ever paid to 
public affairs having obliged him to reside 
principally at Philadelphia, Mount Vernon has 
consequently suffered very materially. The 
house and offices, with every other part of the 
require more consideration. The plan, however, which has 
been adopted for the liberation of the few has succeeded 
well 5 why then not try it with a larger number ? If it does 
not answer, still I cannot but suppose that it might be so 
modified as to be rendered applicable to the enfranchisement 
of the number of ill-fated beings who are enslaved in the- 
southern parts of the country, let it be ever so large. How¬ 
ever, that there will be an end to slavery in the United 
States, on some day or other, cannot be doubted; negroes 
will not remain deaf to the inviting call of liberty for ever $ 
and if their avaricious oppressors do not free them from the- 
galling yoke, they will liberate themselves with a vengeance. 
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