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Most speak of Washington's Farewell Address as if it were concerned with preventing America's involvement with European quarrels and wars. There is that aspect.

However, Washington's main concern in that address is keeping the Union strong and intact. He repeatedly refers to the disaster disunion would bring and how the very fact of Union makes all the States strong and viable. Without it they would fall prey to the schemes and plots of European empires and war with each other.

He urged "that your Union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained....The unity of government which constitutes you ONE people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for itis a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence,....of the very Liberty which you so highly prize."

He warned: "...it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often convertly and insidiously)directed..."

One of his enemies, Jefferson, insidiously infiltrated his poisonous doctrines leading to intellectual justification of nullification and secession. As the Virginia dynasty grew in power the strength of the Union fought for by the Founders diminished. Washington so loved the Union to which he had dedicated the last decades of his life that he urged "...discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can IN ANY EVENT be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts."

The Traitors of the Slaverocracy rejected his heartfelt call for patriotism and to never forget that "The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."

The views of such large minded men as he, Hamilton and Adams were rejected by the small and evil-minded men corrupted in their very essence by the Tyranny of Slaverocracy. Blathering about "freedom" while devoting their lives to Oppression, Ignorance and the Whip.

The Traitors of the Slaverocracy rejected his heartfelt call for patriotism and to never forget that "The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."

Just to tease the neo-rebs I often ask why on earth the rebels put Washington's image on the great seal of the so-called CSA. They never answer.

Walt