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David Barton Caught in Error Again
We caught David Barton in another "error."
This excerpt is from James Madison and Religion in Public by David
Barton
George Washington provides a succinct illustration. During his
inauguration, Washington took the oath as prescribed by the Constitution
but added several religious components to that official ceremony. Before
taking his oath of office, he summoned a Bible on which to take the oath,
added the words "So help me God!" to the end of the oath, then leaned over
and kissed the Bible. [27] His "Inaugural Address" was filled with numerous
religious references, [28] and following that address, he and the Congress
"proceeded to St. Paul's Chapel, where Divine service was performed." [29]
. . .
[27] 4 Washington Irving, Life of George Washington 475 (New York:
G. P. Putnam & Co., 1857); Mrs. C. M Kirkland, Memoirs of Washington 438
(New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1870); Charles Carleton Coffin, Building
the Nation 26 (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1882); etc.
[28] 1 Richardson, Messages and Papers 51-54 (April 30, 1789).
[29] 1 Annals of Congress 29 (April 30, 1789).
Now for the Facts
26 Building the Nation. Chap. l
Flags wave from every window, not only the stars and stripes, but
the flags of all nations-from window, door-way, and the roofs of houses.
Never has there been such a gathering of people in the western hemisphere.
Hotels, private houses, all are full. Fields and pastures are thick with
tents. People from the country spend the night wrapped in blankets beneath
their wagons.
The great day came, April 30th, on which Washington was to be
inaugurated. At nine o'clock in the morning all the church bells rung, and
the multitude thronged the meeting-houses while prayer was offered that the
blessing of Almighty God might rest upon the people, and upon the President
whom they had chosen. Once more the military paraded and marched in
procession to Federal Hall, where, upon the balcony, in presence of a great
multitude, filling Broadway and Pearl Street, thronging every window, and
standing upon all the house-tops, the President swore to uphold the
Constitution, kissing the Bible to manifest his sincerity.
"lt is done." The Chancellor who had administered the oath said it,
and up from the multitude, swelling in mighty chorus, carne the shout,
"Long live George Washington, President of the United States!"
With the uttering of that solemn oath the Republic took its place
among the nations.
Source: Building the Nation: Events in the History of the United
States from the Revolution to the Beginning of the War Between the States,
Charles Carleton Coffin [Author of "The Boys of '76" "The Story of Liberty"
"Old Times in the Colonies" Etc.] New York and London: Harper & Brothers
Publishers 1900 Copyright, 1882, by Harper & Brothers, p 26.
The following transcriptions show the actual text from the pages
referenced in footnote 27 above:
Note that footnote 27 refers to page 475 of Life of Washington (but I
do have to mention that I have seen other sources that list the page as
being 474, so a whole bunch of people are too lazy to do their homework and
verify). The pages covering the inauguration are pages 512-15.
474 LIFE OF WASHINGTON. [1785.
dances.There were balls in camp, in some of the dark times of the
Revolution. "We had a little dance at my quarters," writes General Greene
from Middlebrook, in March, 1779. "His Excellency and Mrs. Greene danced
upwards of three hours without once sitting down. Upon the whole we had a
pretty little frisk.*"
A letter of Colonel Tench Tilghman, one of Washington's
aides-de-camp, gives an instance of the general's festive gaiety, when in
the above year the army was cantoned near Morristown. A large company, of
which the general and Mrs. Washington, general and Mrs. Greene, and Mr. and
Mrs. Olney were part, dined with colonel and Mrs. Biddle. Some little time
after the ladies had retired from table, Mr. Olney followed them into the
next room. A clamor was raised against him as a deserter, and it was
resolved that a party should be sent to demand him, and that if the ladies
refused to give him up, he should be brought by force. Washington humored
the joke, and offered to head the party. He led it with great formality to
the door of the drawing-room, and sent in a summons. The ladies refused to
give up the deserter. An attempt was made to capture him. The ladies came
to the rescue. There was a melee ; in the course of which his Excellency
seems to have had a passage at arms with Mrs. Olney. The ladies were
victorious, as they always ought to be, says the gallant Tilghman.+
* Greene to Col. Wadsworth. MS.
+ This sportive occurrence gave rise to a piece of camp scandal. It
was reported at a distance that Mrs. Olney had been in a violent rage, and
had told Washington that, " if he did not let go her hand she would tear
his eyes out, and that though he was a general, he was but a man." Mr.
Olney wrote to Colonel Tilghman, begging him to refute the scandal. The
latter gave a true statement of the affair, declaring that the whole was
done in jest, and that in the mock contest Mrs. Olney had made use of no
expressions unbecoming a lady of her good breeding, or such as were taken
the least amiss by the general.
1755.] WASHINGTON IN SOCIAL LIFE.475
More than one instance is told of Washington's being surprised into
hearty fits of laughter, even during the war. We have recorded one produced
by the sudden appearance of old General Putnam on horseback, with a female
prisoner en troupe. The following is another which occurred- at the camp at
Morristown. Washington had purchased a young horse of great spirit and
power. A braggadocio of the army, vain of his horsemanship, asked the
privilege of breaking it. Washington gave his consent, and with some of his
officers attended to see the horse receive his first lesson. After much
preparation, the pretender to equitation mounted into the saddle and was
making a great display of his science, when the horse suddenly planted his
forefeet, threw up his heels, and gave the unlucky Gambado a Somerset over
his head. Washington, a thorough horseman, and quick to perceive the
ludicrous in these matters, was so convulsed with laughter that we are told
the tears ran down his cheeks.*
Still another instance is given, which occurred at the return of
peace, when he was sailing in a boat on the Hudson, and was so overcome by
the drollery of a story told by Major Fairlie of New York, of facetious
memory, that he fell back in the boat in a paroxysm of laughter. In that
fit of laughter, it was sagely pre-
* Notes of the Rev. Mr. Tuttle. MS.
Source: Life of George Washington by Washington Irving, Vol IV, New
York G.P. Putnam & Co. 321 Broadway 1857 pp. 474-75
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Historical facts show the Washington saying "So Help Me God' is a myth
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respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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