“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.”
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GEORGETOWN, PA., Jan. 17, 1906.
_Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga._
DEAR SIR: Can you direct me where I can get Alexander Stevens’
“War Between the States”? I would like to purchase this book.
Yours truly,
⸺ ⸺.