美国开国元勋外传  

ANECDOTE OF THE FOUNDERS

作　　者：吴雅婧 

出　　处：《世界博览》2004年第6期43-45,4,共3页World Vision

摘　　要：对于生活在那个时代的人们来说,美国的开国元勋们并不像现在人们认为的那样,是一些品格高尚、“半人半神”的伟大人物。当时,美国的独立、民主实验刚刚开始,就连他们自己都清楚地认识到这一点。The most famous biography magazine at that time denounced Washington as a monarchist:″He holds levees like a King,receives congratulations on his birthday like a King,makes treaties like a King,answers petitions like a King,employs his old enemies like a King.[Washington]has no friendships...He is incapable of forming any.He can serve or desert a man,or a cause,with constitutional indifference;and it is this cold,hermaphrodite faculty that imposed itself upon the world and was credited for a while,by enemies as by friends,for prudence,moderation and impartiality.A Connecticut paper warned of the orgies a Jefferson presidency would bring:″Murder,robbery,rape,adultery,and incest will all be openly taught and practiced;the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed;the soil will be soaked with blood,and the nation black with crimes.″

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