It is too soon for the great principles that animated his whole career to have passed from our memory.

I am not a very old man, gentlemen and ladies, yet it seems to me a great while since the day of Washington's funeral.

My father called me and my brothers to him, and while our mother was fastening a band of black crape around our hats, 'My boys,' said he, 'you have seen the best days of this republic.' It is so, for as much as the United States has increased in size, and power, and wealth, since then, different interests are dividing her." "Was Washington a cheerful man ?" asked an English gentleman who was present, "I have heard that he never laughed.

Is it so ?" Miss Janet, who was considered a kind of oracle when personal memories of Washington were concerned, answered after a moment's pause, "I have seen him smile often, I never saw him laugh but once.

He rode over, one afternoon, to see a relative with whom I was staying; it was a dark, cloudy day, in November; a brisk wood fire was very agreeable.