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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams, John Quincy, 1767- (search)
onstrated to them by the painful and mortifying experience of every day. Washington, though in retirement, was brooding over the cruel injustice suffered by his associates in arms, the warriors of the Revolution; over the prostration of the public credit and the faith of the nation in the neglect to provide for the payment even of the interest upon the public debt; over the disappointed hopes of the friends of freedom; in the language of the address from Congress to the States of the 18th of April, 1783, The pride and boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature. At his residence in Mount Vernon, in March, 1785, the first idea was started of a revisal of the Articles of Confederation by an organization of means differing from that of a compact between the State legislatures and their own delegates in Congress. A convention of delegates from the State legislatures, independent of the Congress itself, was the expedient which presented its
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, George (search)
the States wrote letters expressing the public gratitude for his great services. For the conditions under which this address appeared, see Irving's Life of Washington, IV., 426. For an account of the discontents in the army just previous, which for a time threatened such serious dangers, see Irving, IV., 406; Marshall, IV., 585; and Sparks, VIII., appendix XII., on The Newburg addresses. See in this general connection Washington's letters to the president of Congress, March 19, and April 18, 1783; to Benjamin Harrison, governor of Virginia, March 18, 1783; to Lafayette, April 5, 1783, and his farewell address to the armies, Nov. 2, 1783 (Sparks, VIII., 396, 403, 411, 421, 491). Washington's deep sense of the obligations of the country to the officers and soldiers of the army, which finds such strong expression in this circular letter, may be further studied in The life, journal, and correspondence of Rev. Manassch Cutler, vol. i., chap. IV.; in Cone's Life of Gen. Rufus Putnam;