Ten Years in Washington

Ten Years in Washington - or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. Garfield

The Young Surveyors DreamHumboldts View of WashingtonA Vision of the Future CapitalThe United States Government on WheelsAmbitious OffersThe Rival RiversPotomac WinsBattles in CongressPatriotic Offers of TerritoryTemporary Lodgings for Eleven YearsOld-Fashioned SimplicityHe Couldnt Afford FurnitureA Great Mans ModestyConflicting ClaimsSmith Backs BaltimoreA Convincing FactThe Dreadful QuakersA Condescending PartyA Slight AmendmentAn Old Bill Brought to Light AgainThe Indian Place with the Long NameSecession ThreatenedThe Future Strangely ForeshadowedA Dinner of Some ConsequenceHow it was DoneReally a StrangerA Nice ProposalSweetening the PillA Revulsion of StomachFixed on the Banks of the Potomac. More than a century ago a young surveyor, Captain of the Virginia troops, camped with Braddocks forces upon the hill now occupied by the Washington Observatory, looked down as Moses looked from Nebo upon the promised land, until he saw growing before his prophetic sight the city of the future, the Capital of a vast and free people then unborn. This youth was George Washington. The land upon which he gazed was the undreamed of site of the undreamed of city of the Republic, then to be. This youth, ordained of God to be the Father of the Republic, was the prophet of its Capital. He foresaw it, he chose it, he served it, he loved it; but as a Capital he never entered it.it. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 66318
Author: Clemmer, Mary
Release Date: Sep 16, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The Hartford Publishing Company,1881
Publication Date: 1881
Publisher Country: United States