Middletown transcript., 1896-02-22
WASHING rON's WORDS.

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WASHING IONS WORDS.
The politics of the nation have gone
so far from what they were in Wash
ington's era that his thoughts in gen.
eral have little application to these
times. In his farewell address, how
ever, on stepping down from the presi-
dency, he poke as patriot and states
man, and his words may be classed
with those self evident truths that can
not become stale or useless. On the
subject of permanent union as a me ans
of preserving liberty he said:
"Fhe unity of government, which
constitutes you one people, is also now
dear to you. 1t is justly so, for it is a
main pillar in the ediice of your real
independence; the support of your tran
quillity 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 viii 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 enc
mics will be must constantly and ac-
lively Though often covertly and in
sidiously) directed, it is of Infinite m o.
ment that you should properly es;i-
mate the immense value of your ma
tiohal union to your collective and in.
dividual happiness; that you should
cherish a cordial, habitual and i'm
movable attachment TO it, accustom-
ing yourselves to think and speak of it,
as of fhe palladium of your political
safety and prosperity, watching for its
preservation with jealous anxiety, dis
countenancing whatever may suggest
even 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 en-
feeble the sacred ties which now link |
together the various parts"
Touching foreign relations, ques.
tion Of great Importance to the young g
and struggling nation, he spoke with
unusual boldness and vigor. In broad
sense he urged the maintenance of
good faith and justics toward all and
the cultivation of peace and harmony,
and then, descending to particulars,
spoke as follows:
'In the execution Of such a plan
nothing is more essential than that
permanent, inveterate antipathies
against particular nations and passion
ate attachments for others should be
excluded, and that, In place Of them,
just and amicable feelings towards all
should be cultivated. The nation
which indulges toward another habit
ual hatred or a. habitual fondness is in
some degree slave. 1t is a slave to
its animosity orto its affection, either
of which is sufficient to lead it astray
from its duty and its interest. Anti
pathy in one nation against another
disposes each more readily to offer in
suit and injury, to lay hold of slight
causes of umbrage and to be naughty
and intractable when accidental or
trifing occasions of dispute occur;
hence frequent collisions, obstinate,
envenomed and bloody contests. The /,
nation, prompted by i'll will and re-
sometimes impels war to the {
government, contrary to the best cal
culs.zans of policy. The government {
So pes participates in the national IA
and adopts through passion I
what reason would reject; at other
times it makes the animosi,y of the
nation subservient to projects of hos
tility instigated by pride. ambition and !
other sinister and pernicious motives. ,
The peace often sometimes perhaps the :
liberty, of nations has been the victim. :
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ment of one nation for another pro-
1uces variety of evils, Sympathy :
for the favorite nations. f.ciliating the .
illusion of an Imaginary common in /;
lerests in cases where no real common :
interests exists. and infusing into one
The enmities Of the other betrays the
former into participation in the quar-
reIs and wars of the latter, without
duequate tnuucemtnt OF Justification.
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