[Colonel Kangaroo]

You need to wake up from your Yankee dreamworld. Washington was a slaveowner and a Southerner, and a VIRGINIAN. He would have never made war on his own people.

Washington was a nationalist. All Americans were his countrymen. He recognized that the nation must be united to survive and prosper. Unlike many later Southerners, Washington's vision extended beyond the slave shack and plantation boundary.

[TexConfederate1861]

I agree, he loved his country, as a whole, but I still say he would not have made war on the South