Excerpt from The United States in 1899: An Address Delivered Before the University of Pennsylvania, February 22d, 1899 During his presidency of eight years Washington had demonstrated the strength of the new government in various directions. He had avoided complications with revolution ary France, despite the strong and natural popular sympathy with the country which had aided so importantly in winning our own independence; he had settled outstanding questions full of embarrassing possibilities, by a treaty with Great Britain which at the time was exceedingly unpopular; he had put down by force an armed insurrection; and he had inflicted summary punishment upon the Indians, who showed a disposition to harass our Western borders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.