of the sovereign calls of
morality and liberty--by dealing in HUMAN SLAVES." Again, after
asserting that "posterity will in vain search for the monuments of
wisdom" in his administration, he says they will, on inquiry, find that
had he obtained promotion, as he expected, for the services rendered
after Braddock's defeat, his sword would have been drawn against his
country; and that they would discover "that the great champion of
American freedom, the rival of Timoleon and Cincinnatus, twenty years
after the establishment of the republic, was possessed of FIVE HUNDRED
of the HUMAN SPECIES IN SLAVERY, enjoying the fruits of their labor
without remuneration, or even the consolations of religious
instruction--that he retained the barbarous usages of the feudal system,
and kept men in livery--and that he still affected to be the friend of
the Christian religion, of civil liberty, and moral equality--and to be,
withal, a disinterested, virtuous, liberal, and unassuming man."

CHAPTER XXXVII.

WASHINGTON LEAVES PHILADELPHIA FOR MOUNT VERNON--RECEIVES HONORS BY
THE WAY--HIS ARRIVAL HOME--HIS ENJOYMENT OF PRIVATE LIFE--LETTERS TO
HIS FRIENDS--HIS OWN PICTURE OF HIS DAILY LIFE--ENTERTAINMENT OF
STRANGERS BURDENSOME--INVITES HIS NEPHEW TO MOUNT VERNON--NELLY
CUSTIS AND HER SUITORS--WASHINGTON'S LETTER TO HER--LAWRENCE LEWIS
PREFERRED--WASHINGTON'S DREAM OF PERMANENT REPOSE DISTURBED BY A
GATHERING STORM--EARLY ASSOCIATIONS RECALLED--AGAIN SUMMONED INTO
PUBLIC LIFE.

Washington left Philadelphia for Mount Vernon on the ninth of March, a
private citizen and a happy man. He was accompanied by Mrs. Washington
and her grand-daughter, Eleanor Parke Custis; and by George Washington
Lafayette and his preceptor, M. Frestel, whose arrival and residence in
the United States we have already noticed. George Washington Parke
Custis, the brother of Eleanor, or "Nelly," as she was familiarly
called, was then in college at Princeton, where he had been for several
months. The letters which have been preserved by the Custis family, of
the correspondence between Washington and that adopted son, during the
college life of the latter, are very interesting, and exhibit the Father
of his Country in a light in which he is not viewed by history in her
delineation of him, namely, as the father of a talented but wayward boy.

Ever desirous of giving words of encouragement and the meed of praise to
the deserving, W