One Wish (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from One Wish My Dear Friends: This letter was written to you in Washington, and somebody forgot to mail it, till now I am afraid it is too late. But it is not really a letter, anyway, for there is nothing personal between you and me in it, or anything newsy; noris it an essay, for there is not enough learning in it. The only thing I can call it is a wish, my one wish. But you must wait till the end, like shutting your eyes aud waiting for the wagonload of hay to pass out of sight, before you can know what my one wish is. I hope you have made the same wish, and that they both may come true. My wish is about Thomas Jefferson. It seems when the Nation was very young, and first starting out, its Government was without a home. It was wornout from fighting battles, and could hanlly see through the smoke. Those whom it had fought were hoping it would come to grief. Its own friends were quarrelling. States were arrayed against States. Constantly the North and South were picking at each other, as some brothers do. Its friends were jealous of the affections of each other for it, and it could not stay in the house of any of them. It was without money. The Treasury was empty. The wars had cost a lot. Soldiers were without pay, and were clamoring for the price of its freedom. Weary and faint, young and all alone in the world, there was no place to rest. Almost out of breath, it hardly had strength to go on doing the great things it had to do. Like a fugitive, it wandered from place to place, through stormy times, witli not a roof to over i!s head. And the clouds were dark and threatening ahore it. Some said they were war clouds. They looked black and angry. A shelter mtisl lie found. A seat of government. A capital city. The North wanted the honor of being its birthplace. The South wanted it just as much. Congress must settle the dispute. It had its hands full. Speeches were made, claims were urged, inducements offered, bills passed, amendments added, decision delayed. Still there was no seat of government, no site chosen, until Jefferson and Hamilton agreed about it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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