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Washington returns home as a private citizen...
Washington returns home as a private citizen...
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March 18, 1797
COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, March 18, 1797
* George Washington returns home
* Becomes a private citizen
* Mount Vernon, Virginia
Page 2 has a report noting that 24 Philadelphia clergymen presented an affectionate address to George Washington on the last day of his presidency, to which he replied: "Believing as I do, that Religion and Morality are the essential pillars of civil society; I view, with...pleasure, that harmony and brotherly love which characterizes the Clergy of different denominations, as well as in this as in other parts of the United States, exhibiting to the world a new and interesting spectacle, at once the pride of our country and the surest basis of universal harmony."
This is followed by a report that: "...General Washington was the first citizen who paid his respects to the President of the United States, at the temporary residence of the latter, immediately after his return from taking the oath of office."
At the time there was concern world-wide whether the new American plan of government would allow for a smooth transition from one administration to another (certainly the change of power in Europe was often less than amiable), but this statement certainly assured all that the new democracy would work. A simple yet very significant statement as such.
Four pages, a bit irregular at the spine, nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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