class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">The Abuse Of Washington

Thomas Wentworth Higginson 226 Providential Events In The Life Of Washington Irving Allen 227 Characteristics Of Washington   239 Great George Washington Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith 247 Headquarters In 1776 Paul Leicester Ford 254 X Selections From Washington's Speeches And Writings Selections From The Rules Of Civility   263 Said By Washington   266 Washington Before The Battle Of Long Island, August, 1776   269 From Various Letters, Speeches, And Addresses   270 Washington's Farewell To The Army   279 President Washington's Response To The French Ambassador On Receipt Of The Colors Of France, 1769   280 Washington's Farewell Address   282 XI Exercises Decorations For Washington's Birthday Exercises   309 Some Years In Washington's Life M. Lizzie Stanley 309 Something Better Clara J. Denton 318 The States Crowning Washington Kate Bowles Sherwood 319 The New George Washington Anonymous 324 In Praise Of Washington   325

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INTRODUCTIONToC

A good deal of American history was once violently distorted by the partisanship of the eighteenth century, frozen solid by its icy formalism, and left thus for the edification of succeeding generations. For example, it was not until 1868 that Franklin's Autobiography was by accident given to the world in the simple natural style in which he wrote it. The book had been "edited" by Franklin's loyalist grandson, and had been cut and tortured into the pompous, stilted periods that were supposed to befit the dignity of so important a personage. When John Bigelow published the original with all its naïveté and homely turns of phrases and suppressed passages, he shed a flood of light upon Benjamin Franklin.

But not such a flood as has still more recently been shed upon our struggle for independence, and the hero who led it.

Mr. Sydney George Fisher^[1] has shown how the history of the Revolution has been garbled by the historians into the story of a struggle between a villainous monster on the one hand, and a virtuous fairy on the other: He has shown how a period that is said to have changed the thought of