Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Programme of the Centennial Celebration of George Washington as President of the United States: In New York, Monday, April 29th, Tuesday, April 30th, Wednesday, May 1st, 1889
Backward rolls the tide of events through the bitter and bloody struggle for independence until, amid palms and plaudits, with the Victor's crown upon his brow, George Washington was chosen President of the States, and took the oath of office on the balcony of old Federal Hall just one hundred years ago.
Since then the march of progress, though marked by the casual ties of a civil war which drained the life-blood from hundreds of thousands of noble citizens, has yet been onward and upward to the heights upon which we stand today, supreme amid the nations, God-fearing, and self-sustained.
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