Identifier: picturesquewas00moor (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nightsare spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, per-haps the ruin of other countries, can have very little conception. Ihave not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiringwithin myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and treadthe paths of private life, with a heartfelt satisfaction. Envious ofnone, I am determined to be pleased with all, and this, my dear friend,being the order of my march, I will move gently down the stream oflife until I sleep with my fathers. But again it was not so to be, for on the 14th of April, 1789, amessenger rode up to the door of the Mount Vernon mansion, bear-ing the official intelligence that Washington had been unanimouslyelected as the First President of the United States, and that he wasrequested by Congress to immediately assume the office. Two dayslater, Washington departed for New York to be inaugurated as Presi-dent, and on his journey thither he was the recipient of ovations in MOUNT VERNON. 2QI
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MARTHA Washingtons bed-chamber. the towns and cities through which he passed, and his entry into themetropoHs was made the occasion of a grand jubilee. He took theoath of office on the 30th of April. Then followed eicjht vears of the honors and duties of the Presi-dency, relieved now and then by short visits to the Virginia home.A few days before he finished his official career he celebrated hissixty-fifth birthday, and on the 4th of March, 1797, he attendedthe inauguration of John Adams as President, and soon after de-parted from Philadelphia for Mount Vernon. Throughout his longpublic life he had been faithful to the trusts confided to him, and notaint of dishonor had ever sullied his character. During the two years and nine months which passed between hisretirement from office and his death, Washington never went twentymiles from home. Occasionally the cream-colored chariot he hadused while President would be brought out, six blooded horsesattached to it, and, with servants in live

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