Walt, George Washington preferred to be addressed as 'General' over any other title, including 'President.' You can contact the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association at (703) 870-2000 to verify that (unless they've changed their number in the last couple of years). When speaking of a former president or v.p., the proper form of address is by using their highest previous office except for the two aforementioned. For example, Ronald Reagan should be addressed as Governor, and George H.W. Bush should be addressed as Ambassador. I used to have an office next to the protocol office in the Federal agency I used to work for, and that's one of the tidbits I picked up from those folks.
General Washington hoped that secession could be avoided, and hoped that rational men would think deliberately and without local prejudice, but he never came out and said that a state should never have a right to secede. And please do not confuse a state or states seceding with the end of the Union. Those are two different events.
General Washington hoped that secession could be avoided, and hoped that rational men would think deliberately and without local prejudice, but he never came out and said that a state should never have a right to secede. He -never- said that. How do you know?
Show me.
But the thing is, no one is denying a right to secession --which is just another word for revolution. I have never denied such a right. It clearly exists in natural law for intolerable abuse.
To say that such a right is legal under U.S. law is false. I have not seen a single quote ever, from any of the principals that such a right existed.
Walt