council-speech

Updated: May 20, 2025

'The white men are bad, said an aboriginal chief, in his council-speech, 'and can not dwell in the region of the Great Spirit, except Washington. And Lord Brougham, in a series of analytical biographies of the renowned men of the last and present century, which indicate a deep study and philosophical estimate of human greatness, closes his sketch of Washington by the emphatic assertion that the test of the progress of mankind will be their appreciation of his character."

Benson John Lossing - Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.