American Statesmen
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In Two Volumes
VOL. II.
By
HENRY CABOT LODGE
1899
Frontispiece I.
MARTHA WASHINGTON
Frontispiece II.
Mount Vernon
Table of Contents
Chapter I — WORKING FOR UNION
Chapter II — STARTING THE GOVERNMENT
Chapter III — DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
Chapter IV — FOREIGN RELATIONS
Chapter V — WASHINGTON AS A PARTY MAN
Chapter VI — THE LAST YEARS
Chapter VII — GEORGE WASHINGTON
List of Illustrations
From the painting by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This painting is owned by the Boston Athenæum and is known as the Athenæum portrait.
Autograph from letter written from Valley Forge, March 7, 1778, now in the possession of Hon. Winslow Warren.
From a photograph.
WASHINGTON RESIGNING HIS COMMISSION AT ANNAPOLIS
From the original painting by Trumbull in the Art Gallery of Yale University.
From a contemporary French folio engraving in the Emmet collection, New York Public Library, Lenox Building.
From the original portrait by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Autograph from Winsor's "America."
From the original painting by C.W. Peale, by kind permission of its present owner, Mrs. Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr., Princeton, N.J.
Autograph from Winsor's "America."
GEORGE WASHINGTON
CHAPTER I
WORKING FOR UNION
Having resigned his commission, Washington stood not upon the order of his going, but went at once to Virginia, and reached Mount Vernon the next day, in season to enjoy the Christmas-tide at home. It was with a deep sigh of relief that he sat himself down again by his own fireside, for all through the war the one longing that never left his mind was for the banks of the Potomac. He loved home after the