4295. KOSCIUSKO (General), Disinterested patriot.—
May heaven have in store for
your country a restoration of the blessings of
freedom and order, and you be destined as the
instrument it will use for that purpose. But
if this be forbidden by fate, I hope we shall be
able to preserve here an asylum where your love
of liberty and disinterested patriotism will be
forever protected and honored, and where you
will find, in the hearts of the American people,
a good portion of that esteem and affection
which glow in the bosom of the friend who
writes this * * *.—
To General Kosciusko. Washington ed. iv, 295.
(Pa.,
Feb. 1799)
