WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY surprised, but he, too, was beaten, and his a routed with great slaughter. "Mad Anthony" Wayne now took up the with nearly three thousand men, and complete thoroughly. At Fallen Timbers, August 20, I he met the combined tribes and delivered a cr ing defeat, from which the Indians did not reco for years. One year later, eleven hundred ch and warriors met the United States commission at Fort Greenville and signed a treaty of pe relinquishing at the same time a vast tract of 1 lying in the present States of Indiana and Michig THE WHISKEY REBELLION.-Among the portant laws passed by Congress was one impos a duty on distilled spirits. This roused great position in western Pennsylvania, where whisk was the principal article of manufacture and tra The revolt there assumed such formidable prop tions that it became known as the "Whiskey I bellion," and the President was compelled to call the militia, fifteen thousand strong, to suppress i WASHINGTON'S SECOND TERM.-Washington not desire a second term, but his countrymen wo not permit him to decline. He again received all 1 electoral votes cast, while the next highest numb went to John Adams. Strong party spirit w shown, Hamilton being the leader of the Feder ists, and Jefferson the foremost Republican. "CITIZEN GENET."-During Washington's a ministrations, France was plunged into the bloodi revolution known in history. Her representative this country was Edmond Charles Genet (zheh-na better known as "Citizen Genet." Landing at Charleston, South Carolina, in April, 1793, he did not wait to present his credentials to the government, but began enlisting soldiers and fitting out privateers for the French service. Many thoughtless citizens encouraged him, but the wise Washington, finding that Genet defied him, ended the business by compelling his country to recall him. JAY'S TREATY.-There was much trouble also with Great Britain, but a treaty was finally arranged with her by our special envoy, John Jay. One of its provisions guaranteed payment to British citizens of debts due them before the war. This caused much opposition, but the time came when it was admitted that Jay's treaty was one of the best made by our government. WASHINGTON BY MARY WINGATE O noble brow, so wise in thought! The century, just passed away, Has felt the impress of thy sway, While youthful hearts have stronger grow And made thy patriot zeal their own. In marble hall or lowly cot, Thy name hath never been forgot. For the clear shining of a star. On the fourth of March, 1789, Elbridge Ge who had been chosen to the Senate of the Un States, wrote thus from New York to John Ada My Dear Friend: I find, on inquiry, that you elected Vice-President, having three or four times number of votes of any other candidate. Maryland th away their votes on Colonel Harrison, and South Caro on Governor Rutledge, being, with some other st which were not unanimous for you, apprehensive that was a necessary step to prevent your election to the ch On this point they were mistaken, for the President, am informed from pretty good authority, has a unanim vote. It is the universal wish of all that I have confer with, and indeed their expectation, that both Gen Washington and yourself will accept; and should ei Reprinted from The Independent. refuse, it will have a very disagreeable effect. The members present met to-day in the City Hall, there being about eleven Senators and thirteen Representatives, and not constituting a quorum in either house, they adjourned till to-morrow. Mrs. Gerry and the ladies join me in sincere regards to yourself, your lady, Colonel and Mrs. Smith, and be assured I remain, etc. E. GERRY. So slow was the movement of news in those days, and so doubtful, even after the election, were all men as to its results, Adams would not start from Braintree, his home, till he knew he was elected, nor Washington from Mt. Vernon. Charles Thompson, the Secretary of the old Congress, arrived at Mt. Vernon on the fourteenth of April and communicated to Washington the news of his election. No quorum of the House of Representatives had been formed until the first of April, nor of the Senate until the sixth. These bodies then counted the electoral vote, with the result predicted by Gerry in his letter written two days before. Washington waited a day before starting to the seat of Government. On the sixteenth of April he started for New York. He writes in his diary: About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and to domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphries, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations. The journey began with a public dinner at A andria. Said the gentlemen of Alexandria in t address to him: Farewell! . . . Go! . . . and make a grateful p happy, a people who will be doubly grateful when contemplate this recent sacrifice for their interest. And Washington in his reply said: At my age, and in my circumstances, what prospect advantages could I propose to myself, for embarking on the tempestuous and uncertain ocean of public lif The journey went on with similar interrupti The rule so often laid down by the Virginians at ward that that is the best government which erns least, was certainly well kept until the t teenth of April. To this hour the adventur cyclist, stopping at some wayside inn to refresh self, may find upon the wall the picture of the m ens and mothers of Trenton in New Jersey. H Washington met a deputation sent to him by gress. A triumphal arch had been erected, an row of young girls dressed in white, a second of ladies, and a third of their mothers, awa him. As he passed, the girls scattered flowers, sang the verses which Judge Marshall has served: |