However the public confidence may change, and the public affections fluctuate with respect to others, yet with respect to him they have in war and in peace, in public and in private life, been as steady as his own firm mind, and as constant as his own exalted virtues.
Beveridge notes the unwavering public confidence in Washington, reflecting on his virtues in both war and peace.
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What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.
The Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser said that "no man has lived or died in this country, save its father George Washington alone, who united such a warmth of affection for his person, with so deep and unaffected a respect for his…
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