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_.