Washingtoniana, or Memorials of the Death of George Washington, Giving an Account of the Funeral Honors Paid to His Memory, Vol. 1: With a List of ... a Catalogue of Medals Commemorating the Event - Hardcover

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There appeared no incident in our annals more deeply expressive of unanimity, more free from partizan feeling, or more eloquent with sentiments Of patriotism, than the funeral honors paid upon the death Of General Washington, as found scat tered in the Official records and the transient press Of their day. A plan was formed for gathering these precious memorials, and of embodying them in a form worthy Of the subject. The volumes here Offered are the result Of this effort. They exhibit the spectacle of a nation in mourning, to which the world's history presents no former parallel, and which, until recent events had proved otherwise, the wisest of men would not have hesitated to declare, as destined to stand unrivaled in the future history Of the world.

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