[jeffersondem]

“What two-dimensional name would you use?”

In the case of George Washington: “The Father of Our Country.”

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "In the case of George Washington: 'The Father of Our Country.' "

Sorry, but you can't have Washington, he's on our side:

1. "I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it (slavery); but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority; and this, as far as my suffrage (vote and support) will go, shall never be wanting."
   - Letter to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786."

2. "I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery."
   George Washington

3. "I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law."

4. "Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle."

5. Washington told Edmund Randolph, according to Thomas Jefferson's notes, that if the country were to split over slavery, Washington "had made up his mind to move and be of the northern."[29]