The Character of Washington : An Extempore Sermon Preached Before the Society On Washington's Birthday, 1903
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Furthermore, he was always respectful, courteous and affable to women. He was kind to slaves. Indeed, in his heart he was a wise and judicious abolition- ist. He did not approve of slavery, though, like Saint 6 THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON Paul, he knew that slavery was so gigantic an institution and so rooted in the commnnity that it could not be abol- ished at once. But he set an example by freeing his (nvn slaves. I have somewhere read the story that at one time he was walking along the roads...ide near his old home in the com- pany of a very proud and haughty officer, when a negro passed them and, meekly stepping out of the wav. bowed to these gentlemen. Washington, with his wonted cour- tesy, returned the bow. The other man said to him con- temptuously, "Do you bow to niggers?'" Washington re- plied, "Would you have me less polite than the poor col- ored man ?" He did those duties that pertained to him in his boyhood faithfully and well. As a young man. after he became a surveyor, penetrating through the wilderness of \'irginia, he did his surveying well.
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