Washington and Lincoln Are As Relevant Today As Ever

1. Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809, some 12 years after Washington left office, He would be elected 16th president of the United States in 1860, and immediately confront the greatest crisis in American history with the nation being literally torn in two as a result of numerous states asserting their rights to secede from the Union, claiming Constitutional state’s rights to manage the issues associated with slavery and its abolition.
2. That parting exposition from Washington specifically described the problems facing the American republic in the need “for enlightened public opinion,” and the harm from “the alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge… [which] serves always to distract the public councils…enfeeble the public administration…agitate the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms.” Washington also believed that the inner strength and morality of the nation could not be sustained without religion.

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