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Americans Should Listen to George Washington Before It’s Too Late
“Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.”
On September 19, 1796, readers of the American Daily Advertiser were greeted with perhaps the most famous letter in American history. That letter was titled The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States.
It was immediately reprinted in newspapers throughout the country. Within days, all Americans had read the letter — a letter now known simply as “Washington’s Farewell Address.”
The letter was remarkable for its time, not simply for the ideals and principles it conveyed, but mostly because of the news it conveyed.
George Washington warrants our honor and gratitude
As far as those living in North America at that time were concerned, George Washington was their most important and significant public figure. Without Washington, they wouldn’t have a country.
Though many today disregard, downplay, or ignore Washington’s significance, no one at that time doubted or questioned the irrefutable fact that George Washington was indispensable to…
