Part II:
Timeless Treasures from George Washington
Prepared by
Andrew M. Allison, Jay A. Parry, and W. Cleon Skousen
The Real George Washington,
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JEWS, Washington's Good Wishes for.
—May the same wonder-working Deity who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing [p.724] these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven, and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.—To the Hebrew congregation of the city of Savannah. Sparks 12:186. (1790.)The Real George Washington, p.724
Washington in 1792 (age 60). Water color portrait by Archibald Robertson.
The Real George Washington, p.724
May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the Father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.—To the Hebrew congregation of Newport, Rhode Island. Philip S. Foner, ed., George Washington: Selections from His Writings (New York: International Publishers, 1944), p. 87. (1790.)