Phenix Gazette

At the centenary celebration in Boston, Mr. A. H. Everett said, "that he had been reminded, by a toast which had just been given in honor of the mother of Washington, of an anecdote which he had recently met with in the newspapers, and which he would mention as an introduction to another sentiment on the same subject."

A French traveller—he believed the Marquis de Chastellux, who visited this country not long after the close of the war—called at the residence of Mrs. Washington to present his respects to her. In the conversation which passed between them, he of course enlarged a good deal upon the brilliant achievements of the American Hero.—Mrs. Washington listened to him with complacency, and when he had finished, said to him in reply: I have never been surprised at what George has done: he was always a good boy. If sublimity consist in expressing the noblest thoughts in the simplest and most natural style, Mr. E., said, that he had met with few things more sublime than this, among the most remarkable of the recorded sayings of ancient or modern times. He rejoiced to learn from the newspapers, that it was in contemplation to erect a monument to the mother of Washington, at the place of her residence. This was just and proper; but after all her real monument is to be found in the character of her incomparable boy—Mr. Everett proposed the following toast:

The memory of MARY WASHINGTON—the good mother of a good boy.