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“How much we ought to cherish the blessings which are within our reach, and to cultivate the seeds of harmony and unanimity in all our public Councils.”
THE DIARIES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
1790
JUNE
Sunday, 27th. Went to Trinity Church in the forenoon employed myself in writing business in the afternoon.
Monday, 28th. Exercised between 5 and 7 o’clock in the morning and drank Tea with Mrs. Clinton (the Governors Lady) in the afternoon.
Tuesday 29th. Exercised between 5 and 7 o’clock in the morning on horseback.*
George and Martha Washington at St. Paul’s Chapel
Artist: Jennie Brownscomb
JULY
Sunday, 4th. Went to Trinity Church in the forenoon. This day being the Anniversary of the declaration of Independency the celebration of it was put of[f] until to-morrow.
Monday, 5th. The members of the Senate, House of Representatives, Public Officers, Foreign Characters, &c., The Members of the Cincinnati, Officers of the Militia, &c., came with the compliments of the day to me—about one o’clock a sensible Oration was delivered in St. Pauls Chapel by Mr. Brockholst Livingston, on the occasion of the day—the tendency of which was to show the different situation we are now in, under an excellent government of our own choice, to what it would have been if we had not succeeded in our opposition to the attempts of Great Britain to enslave us; and how much we ought to cherish the blessings which are within our reach, and to cultivate the seeds of harmony and unanimity in all our public Councils. There were several other points touched upon in sensible manner.
The Republican Court (Martha, left – George to her right)
Artist: Daniel Huntington. Brooklyn Museum
In the afternoon many Gentlemen and ladies visited Mrs. Washington.
I was informed this day by General Irvine (who recd. the acct. from Pittsburgh,) that the Traitor Arnold was at Detroit and had viewed the Militia in the Neighborhood of it twice. This had occasioned much Speculation in those parts—and with many other circumstances—though trifling in themselves led strongly to a conjecture that the British had some design on the Spanish settlements on the Mississippi and of course to surround these United States.
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