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General Orders - January 21, 1777

"Let the persons who are known to be enemies to their Country, be seized and confined, and their Property disposed of, as the Law of the State directs." – George Washington, General Orders, Head-Quarters, Morristown, January 21, 1777; "The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745—1799," edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, 39 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office (1931-44) Vol. 7, p. 47

"It is our business to give protection, and support, to the poor, distressed Inhabitants; not to multiply and increase their calamities." – George Washington, General Orders, Head-Quarters, Morristown, January 21, 1777; "The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745—1799," edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, 39 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office (1931-44) Vol. 7, p. 47

George Washington

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The story of Martha Washington's life has not been an easy one to tell, so largely has she, as a distinct personality, been overshadowed by the greater importance of the figure that has stood beside her. As the wife of Washington she has always been presented upon the pages of history; and thus, with true... wifely devotion, would she have chosen to stand. Hence, in writing of Mrs. Washington, except during the early years of her life in Williamsburg, the author has unconsciously drawn the picture of husband and wife together as they appeared to her mind.

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George Washington was so completely a public man, that his biography is necessarily a history of the period in which he lived. In compiling the following narrative I have, therefore, endeavored not only to bring into view the transactions in which he was personally concerned, but all those contemporary events which were of sufficient importance to deserve attention in a general history of the period. The volume will, consequently, if I have succeeded in my design, present a history of Washington and his times.

Whoever has occasion to examine carefully into the history of the period in which Washington lived, will find his reverence for the character of that illustrious man always increasing.

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Everything seems to have depended on him. The leaders of popular opinion looked to him for advice; the Congress for direction. While the war was raging he guided every movement, re pressed all discontent, infused the breath of life into inert masses, and created the means of efficient warfare.

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In this letter to “Friends and Citizens,” Washington warned that the forces of geographical sectionalism, political factionalism, and interference by foreign powers in the nation's domestic affairs threatened the stability of the Republic. He urged Americans to subordinate sectional jealousies to common national int...erests.

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The Wisdom of George Washington is unlike biographies or other publications about the Father of his country. This effort uses Washington’s own words to tell his story from his youth until his death.

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"Ignorance and design are difficult to combat. Out of these proceed illiberal sentiments, improper jealousies, and a train of evils which oftentimes in republican governments must be sorely felt before they can be removed. The former, that is ignorance, being a fit soil for the latter to work in, tools are employed by them which a generous mind would disdain to use; and which nothing but time, and... their own puerile or wicked productions, can show the inefficacy and dangerous tendency of. I think often of our situation, and view it with concern. From the high ground we stood upon, to be so fallen! So lost! It is really mortifying." – George Washington, letter to John Jay, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, May 18, 1786; Fitzpatrick 28:431-432

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Good advice from Benjamin Franklin!