Address Delivered At the Unveiling of the Washington Statue At Newark November
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The very theory on which the new government was founded was as yet unsettled. Washington se cured great men for his cabinet, but the cabinet was divided by the party differences of Jeffer son the Secretary of State, and Hamilton the Secretary of the Treasury. Dangers threat ened from abroad, from France and from Eng land. Between the conflicting opinions Wash ington had to steer his way. He listened to all; he planted himself upon the Constitution he had helped to frame; he preserved the inde p...endence of the United States as he had helped to achieve the independence of the several States, and now after his work has been tested by more than one hundred years it is safe to [103 challenge the world to point out a single erro neous decision in a matter of importance. He found only the raw materials of a nation; he left it living, growing, enduring. He was a con temporary of one of the three greatest military geniuses who ever lived. But Napoleon left his country with a territory shrunken to much smaller boundaries than he found it, with all the conquests of the republic lost, smaller even than Louis XVI had left to the republic, and he left it with its morale so shaken that it is doubt ful if it has ever recovered from the injury he inflicted upon it; he saw the Prussian whom he had humiliated entering Paris in triumph, and England, which he had hated, undisputed mis tress of the seas.
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