1 . __ _
HE REFUSED A CROWN
AN EXAMPLE OF WASHINGTON'S NO
BLE AND UNSELFISH NATURE.
Mow This Action IniprcHHed Gladstone
and Carlyle—lt Seemed JncomprelieiiHl
ble to liouapurte—Wash ingtnn** Rela
tions with Trumbull and Arnold.
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Mr. Gladstone, in one of his chats with
Channcey M. Depew, said that he was
inclined to the belief that all in all per
haps the greatest man since Martin
Luther was George Washington, and
the great English statesman went on to
explain what he meant by this charac
terization. He did not regard Washing
ton as intellectually possessed of such
genius as any one of half a dozen men
whom ho could name. His military
genius is undisputed, although of course
it is hardly fair to compare it with that
displayed by John Churchill or Napoleon |
or Wellington. Judged simply by re
sults, it was as great as the victories of
any of these men, since it led to the es- \
tablishment of a nation destined to be j
pre-eminent in the nations of the world. |
Every one who has studied the mili
tary movements of the Revolution on |
both sides is aware that Washington
was very greatly helped by the distrac- j
tions wliich existed in Great Britain and '
which made it impossible to concentrate
its efforts in tho American colonies.
What the result would have been had
Great Britain sent a Wellington com
manding a great British army in case lie
and Washington joined in battle no man
can say.
Yet Mr. Gladstone thought that in
some respects Washington stood the
greatest tests. His so called Fabian
policy, which consisted in extraordi-
GENERAL WASHINGTON,
narily skillful avoidance of battle when
defeat would have been almost certain
and when it required strategy of the
highest order to avoid it, was carried
out with the patience and the conviction
of geniuß. His retreat after the battle
of Long Island was of itself, in Glad
stone's opinion, sufficient evidence of
great military ability to justify his ap
pointment as commander in chief of the
American armies.
But it was not in respect of military
quality that Mr. Gladstone regarded
.Washington as so pre-eminently great.
It was in tho perfect balance of ull his
greater moral and intellectual qualities
that this pre-eminence lay. His patience,
according to Mr. Gladstone, was some
thing exceeding that of any other man
who achieved greatness, for it was pa
tience under extraordinary irritations,
and patience exercised for no personal
ambition, but simply for the cause.
His conception of what the govern
ment which he was seeking to establish
should be was quite as distinct and com
prehensive as that of Hamilton, Jay,
Madison or Jefferson, although he prob
ably could not have set forth in legal ar
gument as they did the reasons for that
conception. They were admirably set
forth in his messages, and especially in
his farewell address, although there are
indications that some of tho messages
were written by Hamilton, while the
farewell address was unquestionably
written by Livingston, although some
writers believe that Madison wrote it.
But if the phraseology was that of the
secretary the ideas were those of Wash
ington, and he undoubtedly set them
forth to his secretaries, asking them, who
were more familiar with tho literary use
of tho pen than he, to put them in fitting
language.
Mr. Gladstone regards the finest
triumph of noble, unselfish, patriotic
and majestic impulso to bo illustrated
by one brief incident in Washington's
career. When Washington refused the
crown, then the world had the finest ex
emplification of a noble, majestic nature.
, The incident is not as familiar as it
should be. American youth know that
| Washington captured Cornwallis, made
a brilliant retreat after the battle of Long
J Island and worried and fretted the Brit
| ish armies into exhaustion during a seven
| years' war. They also know that he was
president twico and declined to become
president a third time. There are not
many who know that the only time tears
were seen in his eyes and tj}e manifesta
tion of great personal sorrow was made
to those about him was upon that oc
casion at the close of tho war when his
army, encamped upon the banks of the
Hudson, was about to be disbanded. There
WASHINGTON REFUSING THE CROWN.
* were men who were fearful that tho am
bitions and jealousies of some of those
who had been of influenco during the
Revolution would lead them to attempt
to gain great personal power. There
were others who believed that as a result
of the victory there would be established
in America a constitutional monarchy
modeled after that of Great Britain.
The nation as we now know it was a
government yet to bo created.
So a company of officers—men having
influence having talked this matter
over, agreed to go to Washington, ask
him to accept the crown of empire and
to promise him the snjiport of the army
in establishing thus a personal throne.
When they approached him Washington
believed that these officers anil friends of
his had come upon some such errand as
led thorn often to seek him for counsel.
He was in a happy frame of mind that
morning. The war was ended victori
ously, and ho had already been in con
sultation with Hamilton and tome others
respecting the form of civil government
which tho now free colonies should un
dertake.
They offered him the crown in but a
single sentence. A few years before,
across the river, Washington, being st at
ed at breakfast, had been approached by
an officer, who said to him that Benedict
Arnold had fled after un attempt to lie
tray West Point into the hands of the
British. Tim news was appalling and to
Washington must have been extraordi
narily painful, since for Arnold he had a
personal affection which he bestowed
upon only two or tlireo of his other offi
cers. Yet sogreat was hisself command,
so superb his capacity for suppressing
emotion, so thoroughly had he schooled
himself to face adversity with calmness,
that those about him only saw a look of
sad sternness come to his countenance as
he uttered the now historic wordSj_
"Whom can we now trust?"
But when these officers proposed to
him the empire and tried to put the
scepter in his hand Washington broke
down. There was sorrow and there was
anger in his countenance and in his man-
JONATHAN TRUMBULL,
ner. Tears came to his eyes, and when
he dismissed them with a sad gesture and
j only a brief word these men realized
that Washington had been shocked and
| grieved that it could have entered into
1 their hearts that he for one moment could
i have regarded an empire as possible or
could have fought through those seven
years that he might himself attain tho
I throne.
' la that action Washington not only re-
vealed his moral greatness, but, accord
ing to the opinion of Mr. Gladstone and
other great English thinkers who have
studied his liije, made it impossible that
a monarchy could ever be established in
the United States.
Carlyle, who had 110 great opinion of
the American Revolution, believing, if
his private talks with Americans whom
ho met have been correctly reported, that
it was little more than a guerrilla war
fare, nevertheless has said that this half
sorrowful, half angry and contemptuous
repulse to those who were bringing to
him a crown was something greater than
the command of tho American armies
through seven years to ultimate victory.
It was an act that Europeans could not
understand.
Bonaparte was always inclined to be
lieve the story purely apocryphal, al
though he was a great admirer of
Washington and paid a higher tribute to
his military genius than some other
great captains have done. But it was
incomprehensible to Bonaparte that a
man should have conducted a prolonged
warfare to success without any idea of
personal aggrandizement. and, moreover,
Bonaparte himself had no conception
whatever of any other form of republic
an government than that hideous night
mare which followed the French revolu
tion.
Washington's greatness was impressed
upon some of the great men of the times
in which he lived even before the world
understood his victories, and there are
some anecdotes traditionary respecting
his relations with two of the ablest men
of the Revolutionary period which have
not become threadbare by constant ropo
-1 tition, and which illustrate tliisimpres
' sion of greatness which ho gave to his
] contemporaries.
Two of the ablest men produced by
| tho Revolutionary era were Jonathan
J Trumbull and Benedict Arnold. They
were both natives of eastern Connecti
cut. Arnold was born only a few miles
from Trumbull's home. Trumbull was
a man of great piety, splendid executive
capacity and possessed in the highest de
gree the qualities of statemanship. Ar
nold was intellectually brilliant, but
even in childhood had revealed deficient
moral quality. He would have made a
great business man, and WAS in fact em-
BENEDICT ARNOLD,
barked on such a career when tho guns at
Lexington brought him into the field.
Trumbull, who was governor of the
Connecticut colony, greatly admired Ar
nold's energy in getting his company to
gether within an hour after the messen
ger brought the news of Lexington, and
at the bayonet's point demanding pow
der from the hesitating New Haven au
thorities, and then, equipped, leading
them in the march across country to
Boston. It was Trumbull who advised
Washington of this exploit, so that
Washington became early impressed
with Arnold's military ardor and ability.
Arnold's achievement in taking an
army across the wilds of Maine to Que
bec, which has been likened by some
writers to the marches of Xenophou or
Hannibal, gained for him the warmest
friendship of Washington.
Arnold's letters show that the only
man in Revolutionary times for whom
he felt either fear Or respect was Wash
ington. In Washington's presence Ar
nold was subdued, gracious and respect
ful. Some of his letters indicate that he
had for Washington a feeling he had for
no other man, something of affection,
and it was apparent to those who Btudied
the life of Arnold that the only person
before whom he stood tamed and whose
authority he cheerfully acknowledged
was Washington. That indicates some
thing of that great moral quality which
led Mr. Gladstone to speak of Washing
ton as perhaps the greatest man since
Luther. When 110 was contemplating
his awful treachery tho only thought
that gave Arnold pain was that Washing
ton would suffer. For tho rest ho cared
not one jot.
Trumbull, although not so conspicuous
'.n the agitations which led to the revolt
of the colonies as Sam Adams or John
Hancock or Roger Sherman or Thomas
Jefferson, was nevertheless regarded by
Washington as the strongest friend that
he had to lean upon. It is probable that
lie revealed more of his confidences to
Trumbull than to any other man. They
wore something alike in their moral qual
ities, although Trumbull was of Puri
tanic piety, while Washington was not,
though each of them was a religious
man.
Some fifty years ago the Hon. Learned
Hebard was appointed executor of the
estate of William Williams, who was a
grandson of Jonathan Trumbull, and
whose father was one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence. In the
settlement of the estato Judge Hebard
came across a vast amount of corre
spondence, including letters which passed
between Washington and Governor
Trumbull. Some of these letters were
formal business documents; others were
of a more confidential nature. They re
vealed on the part of Washington a free
dom from reserve which none of his
other correspondence shows. Ono or two
of them contained that term which
Washington publicly applied to Gov
ernor Trumbull, and which for many
years was regarded as a nickname for the
American nation, "Brother Jonathan."
Some of Trumbull's correspondence
was also found, which shows that this
man of genius and clear intellect, a man
born to bo of authority himself, had
recognized in Washington that quality
of greatness early in the time of the
Revolution and liefore he had demon
strated it to the world. Trumbull's let
ters, while not extravagant, for ho was
not the man to use extravagant terms,
indicate that Trumbull regarded Wash
ington as having been specially furnished
by Providence with those greater quali
ties, not only military, but moral, which
were necessary to establish the Ameri
can nation. lie had almost the feeling
for Washington which Arnold had, al
though iu his case there was personal in
timacy and almost an equality of rela
tion which probably no other man of the
Revolution enjoyed.
Thus the impression and influence
which Washington created and exerted
upon theso two men—ono of brilliant
ability, but morally bad; the other of in
tellectual and moral integrity and of
statesmanlike quality—suggest how it
was that to men of all quality the im
pression that he gave was that of great
ness, exactly as to the greatest intellects
of this day, like Gladstone's, the same im
pression has been given by a study of
his life. E. JAY EDWARDS,
THE WASHINGTON FAMILY.
In the presidential campaign of 1876 it
was often remarked as a curious coinci
dence that of the men elected president
every third one was childless. The list
ran: Washington, Madison, Jackson
Polk, Buchanan and—but there seems to
have been a break in the line, so that the
omen failed on Tilden. It is also worthy
of remark that these childless men had
singularly happy home lives, and none
more so than George Washington.
Martha Dandridge was a beauty and
a Virginia belle when at seventeen she
married Dimiel Pnrko Custis. Of their
four children two preceded their father
to the tomb, and when the Widow Custis
married George Washington in 1759 she
hail but a son and a daughter. History
gives us a few exquisite glimpses of the
home life of Washington for the next
few years. He and his wife were very
nearly of the same age; both born in
1782; both were wealthy, refined and of
the highest Btnnding among their Vir
ginia contemporaries. Washington loved
the two children as his own. There was
nothing to mar their domestic life.
But in 1773 Martha Parke Custis died,
and Washington was long affected with
a strange restlessness. Indeed his do
mestic life never again seemed so calm
till after the Revolution. Martha was
sometimes called the "dark lady" or
"dark beauty" because of her brunette
complexion, but she was both beautiful
and amiable. The son, John Parke
Custis, at the age of nineteen married
one of the famous Calvert family at Bal
timore, but he, too, died young—died of
camp fever at Yorktown soon after the
surrender, leaving four children. Of
these General and Mrs. Washington
adopted two, and these constituted the
Washington family seen in the familiar
pictures.
Eleanor Parke Custis, the daughter,
was so young at her father's death that
she knew no home but Mount Vernon,
In 1799 she became the wife of Major
Lowis, Wasliington's sister's son. The
son was the well known George Wash
ington Parko Custis, an author of some
note, who acquired the famous Arlington
estate, where he died in 1857. His only
child, a daughter, married Robert E.
Lee, who thus became the owner of
Arlington. ,J. H. B.
A KcMiHonuhle View.
Teacher—Willie, when I called at your
house yesterday and saw the "Life of
Washington" I gave you Christinas I was
much grieved to notice that the leaves
had not been cut.
Willie (meekly)—No'm. If I'd cut
those leaves I wouldn't have half the
chance to swop it off.
WaaliinKton's Politentwft.
George Washington was polite almost
to the point of punctiliousness. The
story is often told of him that, having
bowed to a colored man who had saluted
him, a friend expressed surprise. Wash
ington's quick retort was, "What, do
yon wish to have me outdone in polite
ness by a slave?"
AN OLD WASHINGTON STATUE.
It Was Purchased ly Contributions from
New York School Children.
[Copyright, 18U3, by American Press Assoeia- '
tion.]
There is now on one of the most pic
turesque spots on Manhattan island a
statue of George Washington which has
an interesting history. The statue stands
in Riverside crescent, and is to the lower
end of Riverside drive what the Grant
mausoleum is on a grander scule to the
upper. The figure stands with its back
to the Hudson, about eighty feet above
the tide. General Egbert L. Viele, who
saved the statuo from oblivion, told me
about it as follows;
"This piece of statuary is a life size rep
resentation of Washington. The first
thing you notice about it is its apparent
smallness. It shows the pater patriie to
have been a much smaller man than
everybody supposes. That is because
all his statues are either heroic or colos
sal. In exalting his character the people
havo magnified his person. It is so the
world over with military and political
heroes. In persm Washington was not
a man of gigantic proportions by any
means. This is a truthful counterfeit,
if I may use the paradox. It is one of
five which show him as he was. All
others make him out a man of heroic
build. Suppose you look up his biog
raphies and see if you can find in a single
one of them a specific description of his
person, with refcrenco especially to his
weight and stature.
"The original of this eifigy is in the
capitol at Richmond. It is by Houdon,
the celebrated French sculptor, noudon
was given the commission through
Thomas Jefferson.
"He stripped his subject to the buff
and made a plaster cast. It is the only
perfect model ever made of Washington.
The result was tlio statuo at Richmond.
"Some time before the rebellion the
general assembly of Virginia authorized
a German sculptor Guntherman by
name —to make a dnplicato of the Ilou
don statue, and from this four casts were
made. Ono of these is the statue in
Rivorsido drive. Just after the war the
sculptor's widow brought it to Now
York and placed it on exhibition in one
of the public halls. She wanted to sell
it to the city for one of the parks. Her
price was SIO,OOO. It was very cheap
for such a piece of art, but the offer was
declined by the city authorities, and it
wa finally decided that a subscription
should be opened among the children of
the public schools to make up the pur
chase money in sums of a dime or less.
After considerable exertion $5,000 was
raised, and there the matter stood until
the widow agreed to accept that sum and
to give a bill of sale to the city.
THE WASHINGTON STATUE.
"The authorities now accepted the
statue, and ordered it to bo placed in n
storage room in the park with a lot of
rubbish, and there it remained something
like twenty years. When I became
president of the park department this
statue came under my notice as I was
inspecting the city's property of which I
was to have charge. It was covered
with dust and was hardly recognizable.
Its history hail been forgotten. No one
knew what it was or how it came there.
The Tweed regime was past, and new
peoplo were in. Finally I found an old
clerk who knew, and he told ino of it.
"Wo were then laying out Riverside
park and decided that the statue should
lie placed in the little crescent where it
now stands. A number of residents
along the new park joined mo in a sub
scription, and we brought a block of
granite from New Hampshire and had a
pedestal made. When the pedestal was
ready the statue was dedicated. It was
on a Fourth of July. Children to the
number of 500, dotailed in military form
from the various public schools,carried
out unaided on that day tho programme
that had been begun before any of them
were born. The school commissioners
and 5,000 other citizens, with Cappa's
Seventh regiment band, assembled at
the crescent, and tho children united in
anthem and song and oration to com
plete in their own way tho programme
of inauguration. The little girls were
dressed in white, and the boys were all
bright and decently clad. Every girl
and boy carried a little flag of the coun
try, and they all marched in procession
two and two, singing and scattering
flowers about tho statue as they passed.
The scene was the most interesting and j
touching of any I ever beheld. And j
thus the statue was dedicated."
Soil is now being hauled from Fort
Wasliingtoh, more than three miles up
tho river, to complete a bastion front for j
the statue, and congress will lie asked
to donate two or more Revolutionary :
cannon to place at the angles. This ■
fort was tho first geographical point to :
be named for Washington, and there is
not a square foot of its soil but was con
secrated by the blood of Cadwalhidcra
noblo Marylanders and Pennsylvanians
when they made their final and hoiieless
stand, a Spartan band of 8,000, against
tho king's army, seven times as strong.
General Viele originated tho idea of
making the bastion front with this soil.
It will be when completed an exact
duplicate of ono of Alexander Hamilton's
bastions at the old fort.
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