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A STORY CONCERNING GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON
A correspondent, in the course of a private letter, reports a very interesting tradition which illustrates the character and bearing of The Father of his Country.
I give it in the language of the writer:
“To return to General Washington. Your picture of him makes me want to repeat to you a piece of tradition that was handed down to me by my father.
“My father’s uncle, Governor George R. Gilmer, of Georgia, told my father that his father, Thomas M. Gilmer, of Virginia, told him that General Washington was the most extreme type of the aristocrat that this country had ever produced. That he had seen him drive up in his coach and four to a country court house at election time to vote that he would alight, and with head erect and neither looking to the right nor the left, as the crowd uncovered, parted and almost prostrated themselves to the ground, would march up, deposit his ballot, and without the slightest acknowledgment to the crowd or to any individual, without even so much as a nod or turn of the head, he would march in state through the path made by obsequiousness and reverence and love back to his coach, where he would sit the picture of rigidity and indifference as he rode away.”