Document · United States · 1796
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Washington's Farewell Address
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He left office with a warning, and he held people as property while he wrote.
The review
It is a newspaper essay. He did not deliver it from a porch, whatever the picture in my head wanted. He declines another term. He warns against parties and against permanent foreign alliances. The warning is political, and a house can read it. I am not going to write him a sentence he did not publish so the exit feels warmer.
He held people as property while he wrote about the republic. That fact sits in the same week as the warning, or I have prettied the man. Leaving office is a real limit on the want to stay. It does not settle the people he held. I can admire the refusal of another term and still say the ownership out loud. If the kids hear only the farewell legend, they will miss the household he kept.
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The glance
Household and Piety and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 6Industry
He treats the presidency as a job he will not keep another term.
- 3Household
The essay is political; he still held people as property at home.
- 4Piety
He warns the country, and the piece is not a prayer.
- 6Courage
Declining another term gives up an office he could have kept.
- 6Republic
He warns against parties and alliances while holding people as property.
- 8Temperance
Declining another term puts down the want to stay in office.
- 5Truth
The political warning can stand, and he still held people as property.
- 4Stewardship
He left the office; this essay did not free the people he held.
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