ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON
Captain Stephen Trowbridge, once the oldest male inhabitant of Milford, N.H( , told the following incident of Washing- 1 iou's visit to that village in 1790. V hilo 1 the latter was walking about the ](own, j tended by .a number of his officers, a | coloured soldier, who lost a limb in his i service, made his way up to the general 1 and saluted him. Washington tumed to . this coloured sqldier, shook hands w" him, and gave him a present of a dollar. One of the attendants objec e . to the eivilities thus shown by the ?resl ,, dent of the United States to snch an hn^ : ble person; but Washington rebnke 1 sharply, asking if he should pennit tn coloured man to excel him in polit611
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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 8, 7 May 1920, Page 10
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129ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 8, 7 May 1920, Page 10
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