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President Washington
From the portrait by John Vanderlyn, in the Capitol at Washington
This full-length portrait of our First President is the work of anartist to whom Napoleon I awarded a gold medal for his "Marius Amongthe Ruins of Carthage," and another of whose masterpieces, "Ariadne inNaxos," is pronounced one of the finest nudes in the history ofAmerican art. For Vanderlyn sat many other notable public men,including Monroe, Madison, Calhoun, Clinton, Zachary Taylor and AaronBurr, who was his patron and whose portrait by Vanderlyn hangs in theNew York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nevertheless, Vanderlyn failed inachieving the success his genius merited, and he once declaredbitterly that "no one but a professional quack can live in America."Poverty paralyzed his energies, and in 1852, old and discouraged heretired to his native town of Kingston, New York, so poor that he hadto borrow twenty-five cents to pay the expressage of his trunk.Obtaining a bed at the local hotel, he was found dead in it the nextmorning, in his seventy-seventh year.
THE
LIFE
OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
COMMANDER IN CHIEF
OF THE
AMERICAN FORCES,
DURING THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THE INDEPENDENCE OF HIS COUNTRY,
AND
FIRST PRESIDENT
OF THE
UNITED STATES.
COMPILED UNDER THE INSPECTION OF
THE HONOURABLE BUSHROD WASHINGTON,
FROM
ORIGINAL PAPERS
BEQUEATHED TO HIM BY HIS DECEASED RELATIVE, AND NOW IN POSSESSION OFTHE AUTHOR.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,
AN INTRODUCTION,
CONTAINING A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE COLONIES PLANTED BY THE ENGLISHON THE
CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA,
FROM THEIR SETTLEMENT TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THAT WAR WHICH TERMINATEDIN THEIR
INDEPENDENCE.
BY JOHN MARSHALL.
VOL. V.
THE CITIZENS' GUILD
OF WASHINGTON'S BOYHOOD HOME
FREDERICKSBURG, VA.
1926
Printed in the U.S.A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
G. Washington again unanimously elected President.... War betweenGreat Britain and France.... Queries of the President respecting theconduct to be adopted by the American government.... Proclamation ofneutrality.... Arrival of Mr. Genet as minister from France.... Hisconduct.... Illegal proceedings of the French cruisers.... Opinions ofthe cabinet.... State of parties.... Democratic societies.... Genetcalculates upon the pa