OF

WASHINGTON;

POLITICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL, AND RELIGIOUS.

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY

JOHN FREDERICK SCHROEDER, D. D.,

A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.

First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

7.70

ENTERED according to act of Congress in the year 1854,

By J. F. SCHROEDER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

TO ALL MEN

WHO REVERE THE SACRED MEMORY

OF

WASHINGTON,

ADMIRE HIS EXALTED VIRTUES,

AND APPLAUD HIS GREAT AND GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS,

This Volume,

A REPOSITORY OF HIS ENNOBLING SENTIMENTS,

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR.