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To: Non-Sequitur
Washington wouldn't have supported his rebellion, especially one over slavery.

Concurring bump. In his farewell address Geo. Washington warned against the treachery his southern descendants would eventually perpetrate.

" The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as 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 covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; 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." -Washington's Farewell Address 1796

The concept that General Washington would ever support southern secession is absurd. Those who suggest otherwise are historical perverts.

240 posted on 09/12/2005 6:00:31 PM PDT by mac_truck (Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
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To: mac_truck
Their LIES are Legion. And that is ALL they have.

The Farewell Address is always painted as an Isolationist document when in fact it is almost totally directed at those who would deceive the gullible and ignorant into secession. Its Isolationist aspect was strictly limited to remaining out of the Anglo/Franco fight because the Nation was still too weak to take an active role and because the Slavers and democRAT-republicans were willing to fight FOR France and AGAINST the US should we take the side of the English. Hence, once again the argument against involvement was grounded in fear of secession destroying the Union.

Hamilton was the actual author of this document and there is no one who can legitimately claim HIM to be reluctant to take a role in world history if it is in the National Interest.
251 posted on 09/13/2005 7:59:04 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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