"He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good; and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he."-Solomon. REVISED BY THE EDITORS. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY T. MASON AND G. LANE, THE NEW YORK ASTOR, LENOX AND " Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by T. Mason and G. Lane, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of NewYork." ΤΟ A. MACDONALD, Esq. LATE ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. PERMIT me, my dear general, as a feeble testimony of that regard which your long course of kindness and friendship has inspired, to inscribe to you this brief memoir of him who was " FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN." Yours, most truly, Brooklyn, Dec., 1839. S. G. ARNOLD. Life of Washington. |