[PhilipFreneau]

Southerners knew well that George Washington never desired the horrible excesses of liberalism to be the rule rather than the exception. His Farewell Address ranks among the most powerful statements against liberalism.

And disunion.

And against usurpation, centralization of government, immorality, foreign influence into political affairs, . . . , and most ever trademark associated with modern liberalism. On the same note he was strongly in favor of a common language and a common religion (with minor shades of differences, of course).

[WhiskeyPapa]

On the same note he was strongly in favor of a common language and a common religion (with minor shades of differences, of course).

Do you have a source for that?

Here is a paragraph from the letter from George Washington to the Touro Congregation in Newport, RI, 1790.

"May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree and there shall be none to make him afraid..."

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