American Minute with Bill Federer
The Death of Washington: "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
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He caught a chill riding horseback several hours in the snow while inspecting his Mount Vernon farm.
The next morning it developed into "acute laryngitis" and the doctors were called in.
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Their response was to bleed him heavily four times, a process of cutting one's arm to let the "bad blood" out.
They also had him gargle with a mixture of molasses, vinegar and butter.
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Despite the doctors' best efforts, they could not save former
President George Washington.
He died DECEMBER 14, 1799, at the age of sixty-seven.
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George Washington
said:
"Doctor, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go,"
and
"I should have been glad, had it pleased God, to die a little easier, but I doubt not it is for my good."
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George Washington,
at about eleven o'clock in the evening, uttered his last words:
"Father of mercies, take me unto thyself," and "tis well."
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On
Washington's tomb
at Mount Vernon is engraved:
"I am the Resurrection and the Life; sayeth the Lord. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die."
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The Washington Monumen
t in
Washington, D.C.,
which is 555 feet tall, has engraved on its metal cap the Latin phrase "Laus Deo," which means "Praise be to God."
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George Washington
led the Continental Army to victory, giving the United States independence from the empire of the most powerful globalist leader in the world -- the King of Great Britain.
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Washington presided over the
Constitutional Convention,
where a republican government was created, making
the people are the king.
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Rather than staying in power,
Washington
only served two terms, setting an example for subsequent Presidents.
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Poet Robert Frost
wrote:
"I often say of
George Washington
that he was one of the few men in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."
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Three years before his death,
Washington
delivered his
Farewell Address,
September 19, 1796, in which he warned of an emerging deep-state:
"And of fatal tendency ... to put, in the place of the delegated will of the Nation,
the will of a party;
-- often
a small but artful and enterprising minority ...
They are likely, in the course of time and things, to become
potent engines,
by which
cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men
will be enabled to
subvert the Power of the People
and to
usurp for the themselves the reins of Government;
destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion ..."
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Washington
added:
"But this leads at length to a more formal and
permanent despotism ...
Disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an Individual ...
(who) turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on
the ruins of Public Liberty ...
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one,
and thus
to create,
whatever the form of government,
a real despotism ..."
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Washington
concluded:
"But let there be no change by
usurpation;
for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is
the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
The
precedent (of usurpation)
must always greatly overbalance in
permanent evil any partial or transient benefit
which the use can at any time yield."
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Less than 40 years
after Washington's death, President Andrew Jackson
remarked in his Farewell Address, 1837:
"Washington
... seemed to be ...
the voice of prophecy,
foretelling events and
warning us of the evil to come ...
There have always been those amongst us who wish to
enlarge the powers of the General Government
... to overstep the boundaries marked out for it by the Constitution ...
Government ... passed from the hands of the many to the hands of the few,
and this organized money power from
its secret conclave
would have
dictated the choice of your highest officers
and compelled you to
make peace or war, as best suited their own wishes ...
It is from within, among yourselves
-- from cupidity (excessive desire), from
corruption,
from disappointed ambition and inordinate
thirst for power
-- that f
actions
will be formed and
liberty endangered."
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President Washington
wrote to Bishop John Carroll, March 15, 1790:
"May the members of your society in America, animated alone by
the pure spirit of Christianity,
and still conducting themselves as the faithful subjects of our free government,
enjoy every temporal and spiritual felicity."
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Richard Allen,
founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
delivered a eulogy of Washington
in Philadelphia on December 29, 1799.
Rev. Allen's church
was
supported by contributions from
founding fathers, including
George Washington
and Dr. Benjamin Rush.
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Though most founding fathers did not own slaves, of those that did,
George Washington
set a bold example by stipulating in his Will
to free them all
, and that any sick or elderly among them
should be supported by his estate in perpetuity.
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Rev. Richard Allen
described
Washington:
"To us he has been the
sympathizing friend and tender father.
He has watched over us, and viewed our degraded and afflicted state with compassion and pity -- his heart was not insensible to our sufferings."
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Major General Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee,
who served with
Washington
in the Revolution, was asked by Congress to write a eulogy for his former brother-in-arms.
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Lee
described
Washington
as:
"First in war -- first in peace -- and first in the hearts of his countrymen ...
He was second to none in the humble and endearing scenes of private life; pious, just, humane, temperate and sincere; uniform, dignified and commanding, his example was as edifying to all around him, as were the effects of that example lasting."
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Benjamin Franklin
served as an ambassador of the new United States.
While attending a dinner of foreign dignitaries at Versailles, France, the minister of Great Britain proposed a toast to
King George III,
likening him to the sun.
The French minister, in like kind, proposed a toast to
King Louis XVI,
comparing him with the moon.
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Benjamin Franklin
stood up and toasted:
"George Washington,
Commander of the American armies, who,
like Joshua of old,
commanded the
sun
and the
moon
to
stand still,
and they obeyed him."
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