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Title: A history of Virginia for boys and girls
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Wayland, John Walter, 1872-1962
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e two of the Virginians who helped to makethe Constitution of the United States in 1787.In 1789 the new government under the Consti-tution began, with Washington as first President.Soon Madison too was called to serve in thePresidents chair. Just before him was PresidentThomas Jefferson and just after him was PresidentJames Monroe, also Virginians. In this chapterwe shall speak of Washington, Jefferson, Madison,and Monroe, four early Presidents from Virginia. Because Washington had commanded the sol-diers who won the Revolution and had presidedover the delegates who made the Constitution, itwas quite natural that he should be chosen firstPresident under the Constitution. March 4, 1789,was the day set for the new government to beorganized. New York City was the appointedplace. But March 4 came and passed, withlittle done. Roads were so bad and travel was soslow in those days that it was April 30 before theinauguration of the President really took place. 18S FOUR VIRGINIA PRESIDENTS 189
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GEORGE WASHINGTON, FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES From Mt. Vernon in Virginia, up throughMaryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and NewJersey, to New York is a long, long way. And I90 A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA Washingtons horse, though strong and faithful^could not always hurry. Often, too, the greatman had to stop to shake hands with his old com-rades along the way — veterans of the war,who had followed him at Princeton, at Brandy-wine, at Valley Forge, a dozen years before. At Trenton, New Jersey, where Washington in1776 had captured a thousand men for a Christmasgift, thirteen young women, dressed in white andbearing flowers in their hands, met him and badehim welcome. The thirteen girls in white rep-resented the thirteen stars upon the flag — thethirteen states that did him honor. In his pathflowers were scattered and over his head wereraised arches of victory. The whole long wayfrom Virginia to New York was marked withspeeches of welcome and bursts of rnartial music.At the New Y

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