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than that. Reserved he was, and not a loose or glib talker, but he always showed his interest and gave close attention. After Yorktown, when the United States proclaimed to the world that they were an independent Republic, Europe recognized that this was indeed a Republic unlike all those which had preceded it during antiquity and the Middle Age. Foreigners doubted that it could exist. They doubted that Democracy could ever govern a nation. They knew despots, like the Prussian King, Frederic, who walked about the streets of Berlin and used his walking-stick on the cringing persons whom he passed on the sidewalk and did not like the looks of. They remembered the crazy Czar, Peter, and they knew about the insane tendencies of the British sovereign, George. The world argued from these and other examples that monarchy was safe; it could not doubt that the supply of monarchs would never give out; but it had no hope of a Republic governed by a President. It was George Washington more than any other agency who made the world change its mind and conclude that the best President was the best kind of monarch. It is reported that after he died many persons who had been his neighbors and acquaintances confessed that they had always felt a peculiar sense of being with a higher sort of person in his presence: a being not superhuman, but far above common men. That feeling will revive in the heart of any one to-day who reads wisely in the fourteen volumes of "Washington's Correspondence," in which, as in a mine, are buried the passions and emotions from which sprang the American Revolution and the American Constitution. That George Washington lived and achieved is the justification and hope of the United States. THE END INDEX Throughout the index, the initial _W_. is used for the name of George Washington. Adams, John, his _Diary_ quoted, 57 _n_.; on committee to confer with Howe, 79; on Peace Commission, 130; chosen first Vice-President, 176; appoints _W_. Commander-in-Chief, in 1799, 217, 240; letter of _W_. to, 217; 49, 59, 155, 156, 162, 180, 212, 215, 217, 231, 251, 254. Adams, Samuel, 49, 57, 59, 60, 162, 175, 176. Addison, Rev. Mr., 253. Agriculturist, _W_. as an, 37 _ff_. Albert, Prince, 153. Alleghany Mts., 7. American Revolution, 64-126 _passim_; great extent of field of operations, 67; really ended with surrender at Yorktown, 126; nature and results of, 126-128;
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