They are continually spreading themselves too, to settle and enlighten less favored quarters.

Dr.Franklin is a New Englander." When I remarked that his observations were flattering to my country, he replied, with great good humor, "Yes, yes, Mr.Bernard, but I consider your country the cradle of free principles, not their armchair.

Liberty in England is a sort of idol; people are bred up in the belief and love of it, but see little of its doings.

They walk about freely, but then it is between high walls; and the error of its government was in supposing that after a portion of their subjects had crossed the sea to live upon a common, they would permit their friends at home to build up those walls about them."[1] [Footnote 1: Lodge, II, 338, 339.] We find among the allusions of several strangers who travelled in Virginia in Washington's later days, who saw him or perhaps even stayed at Mount Vernon, some which are not complimentary.

More than one story implies that he was a hard taskmaster, not only with the negroes, but with the whites.