The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-09
WASHINGTON LETTER IN THE :
KEEPING OF NORTH CAROLINA
HISTORICAL COMMISSION

in an abatement OF the parry Spiiie
which so much endangers Union on
which the safety and happiness of
America can alone be founded. May
that Union, at a short distance OF
time, be as perfect and more sa1e
than ever, and in the mean while MAJ
the State of North Carolina be conSlo-
cred, as it truly deserves to pc, at
tached with equal warmth with any
State in the Union, to the true Interest
Prosperity and Glory of America, diff
fering only in some particulars IN
Opinion as to the means of promoting
them."
To this address, President Washing
| ton, in the letter referred to above, re-
piled as follows:
ITO the Governor and Council of the
| State of North Carolina.
| Gentlemen:
lit was scarcely possible for any
Address to have given me greater
| pleasure than that which 1 have just
| received from you: because l consider
| it not only demonstrative of your ap-
probation of my conduct in accepting
| the first office in the Union, but also
indicative of the good dispositions Of
the citizens of your State towards
! heir Sister States, and of the proba-
/ ,Ility of their speedily acceding to
| the new general Government.
| 'In justification Of the opinion
which you are pleased to express, of
my rea diness ito advise every meas
ure calculated to compose party divi-
| sionS and to abate any animosity that
may be excited by mere difference of
opinion" / take the liberty Of refer
ring you to the sentiments commune
| Gated by me to the two Houses OF
Congress. On this occasion, l am like
wise happy in being able to add the
strongest assurances, that I entertain
a well-grounded expectation tha,
nothing will be wanting on the part
of the different branches of the gen.
eral Government to render the UniOr
as perfect, and more safe than ever
: it has been.
t "A difference of opinion on politica
| points is not to be imputed to FreemeI
as a fault; since it is to be presumed
that they are all actuated by an equal
: ly laudable and sacred regard for th'
t liberties Of their Country. If tn
: mind is SO formed in different person
, as to consider the same object to b
2 somewhat different in it's nature an,
: consequences, as it happens to b
placed in different points Of view, an
q if the oldest, the ablest and the mos
!, virtuous Statesmen have often differ
. ed in judgment as to the best form
of Government-We ought, indeed
;, rather to rejoice that SO much ha
been effected, than to regret tha
more could not all at once be accom-
plished.
: "Gratified by the favourable senti
ments which are evinced in your ad
dress to me, and impressed with a
idea that the Citizens of your State ar
II sincerely attached to the Interests, tn
e. Prosperity and the Glory of Americ:
e 1 most earnestly implore the Divin
er benediction and guidance in the cour
r ellis, which are shortly to be taken b
L their Delegates on a subject of tr
NJ most mOmentOus consequences.
re mean, the political relation which
* to subsist hereafter, between the Sta
IS of North Carolina and the States no
1e in Union under the new general Co
in ernment.
tn GEO. WASHINGTON"
or New York,
ns June 10Th, 1889