The Abuse Of Washington

On lus last day m oflicc Washington wrote to Knox cornparing hitnself to "the weaiy traveller who sees a restinsplace, and is bendinhis body to lean thereon, To be suffered to do this in peace," he added, "is too much to be endured by some." Accordingly, on that very day a Phiiadelphia newspaper dismissed him with a final tirade, worth remenibering by all who think that politica] virulenco is on the increase: " 'Lord now lettest thou Thy servant depart in peaco, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation!' This was tho exel amation of a man who saw a flood of blesscdness breaking in upon mankind. If ever there was a time that allowed this exclamation to be be repeated, that time is the present. The man who is the source of all our eountry's misery is this day reduced to the rank of his fellow-citizens, and has no longer tho power to multiply the woes of these United States. Now more 1han ever is the time to rejoice. Every heartwhieh feels for the liberty and happiness of the puople must now beat with raptuie at the thought that this day the name of Washington ceases t& give currency to injustice and to legalizo corruption. When we look back upon the eight years of Washington's administration. ït strikes us with astonishmcnt that one man could thus poison the principies of republicanism among our enlightened people, and carry his designs against ttie public liberty s'o far as to endanger its very existence. Yet such in the f act, and if this 3 apparentto all, this day should form a jubileo in the CJnitedStates."