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Title: Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Snowden, William H. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Alexandria, Va., Printed by G. H. Ramey & son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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States, among the common people, in foreign courts, throughout the civilized world of the human race, and even among the savages, he, beyond all other men, had the confidence of his kind. On the sixteenth of June, 1775, he appeared in his place in Congress, after his appointment as commander-in-chief of the colonial armies, and after refusing allpay beyond his expenses, he spoke with unfeignedmodesty to his colleagues—As the Congress desire it,I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert everypower I possess in their service and for the support ofthe glorious cause. But I beg it may be rememberedby every gentleman in the room that I this day declare,with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equalto the command I am honored with. Washington was not a bigot nor a zealot in religion, nor even a sectarian. Pro-foundly impressed with confidence in Gods providence, and exemplary in his respectfor the forms of public worship, no philosopher of the eighteenth century was more firm
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Pi OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 47 in the support of freedom of religious opinion ; but belief in God and trust in His over-ruling power formed the essence of his character. He believed that wisdom not onlyillumines the spirit, but inspires the will. He was a man of action and not of theoryor words. His creed appears in his life, not in his profession. His whole being wasone continued act of faith in the eternal, intelligent, moral order of the universe. Hisbroad and liberal conceptions of what constituted the basis ot a common fatherhoodand a common brotherhood would not allow of any narrowing or dwarfing of his naturalconvictions by the trammels of religious dogmas or formulas, and so he was tolerantof the fullest religious liberty and thought, believing that every man had the rightimplanted in him by the God of nature to worship Him in whatever way seemed tohim best, consequently the creed of no church ever held him exclusively within itsnarrow limits. His true and tried friends were

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