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Title: United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present day..
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York, The United States history co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nited States of America. Already in the Colonial times local *It is worthy of note that Washington, at the time of the inauguration, thoughonly 57 years of age, was already an old man. He had gone into the Revolution a youngman, but was now aged, gray, enfeebled by the strenuous services and great anxieties towhich he had been subjected through a period of fourteen years. He was still erect, majestic,firm in his step, with a certain serene dignity of countenance which has hardly had aparallel among all the great men who have risen on this side of the sea. But it wasnoticed by those in the Senate Chamber, on the day of his inauguration, that his voicewas not a little enfeebled. He spoke in a low tone, and could be heard only by those whowere sitting near. Perhaps the premonitory shadows of the serious and long-continuedillness, which fell upon him within two months after his inauguration, were alreadygathering on the day of his accession to the Presidency. HARRISONS ADMINISTRATION. 709
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old st. Pauls church, bkoadway, new york. divisions had given rise to local partisan controversy, and at the time ofWashingtons inauguration—even before that inauguration—a great dis-pute, relative first of all to the Constitution itself, whether it should orshould not be, and after that, relative to the construction of the greatinstrument, had broken out in all the States. Little jets of flame werealready springing through the placid surface of public affairs, indica-tive of the great Federal and Democratic partisan disputes which havehardly yet ceased to agitate the American mind. But in this Wash-ington had no part or lot. He stood proudly above it. His theorywas to introduce into his administration the diverse elements of polit-ical belief, and to harmonize under his benign, fatherly influence the 710 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. opposing forces which threatened to distract, if not to destroy, thevery system to which he had now pledged his all. Turning from the actual inaugur

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