"Washington's Appeal" by Stephen P. Anderton

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Full title: Washington's Appeal: The Foundations of Constructive Democracy" by Stephen P. Anderton. Published in New York by Covici-Friede in 1935. First edition. 63pp.

FOREWORD

"WASHINGTON'S APPEAL is inspired and illuminuted by cogent quotations from Washington's Farewell Address, urgently bespeaking a dispassionate perspective of our history in the making, Washington's solemn, forceful admonitions are relatively applied in analyzing the disruptive and dangerous forces menacing the political and economic life of our Republic in the dynamic evolution of our civilization. The potential solution is found implicitly revealed in Washington's prophetic admonitions.

"Washington's Farewell Address is his personal message to all the people of our Nation for all time. It had its inception in a draft prepared by James Madison at Washington's request near the end of his first term as President in 1793, when he desired to retire. Persuaded to stand for a second term, he was reelected unanimously. Determined to retire at the close of his second term, Washington made the first draft of his Address, which he sent to Hamilton. Washington's final manuscript, published in 1796, embodies his determination upon re-drafts, revisions and extensions passing between them. Its preparation altogether involved aid or advice successively of Madison, Hamilton, Jay and certain members of his cabinet.

"Thus, the Farewell Address should be revered as a national repository of the patriotic wisdom of Washington, fortified by that of other great Founders of our Republic, untrammelled by partisan or factional dissensions.

"Washington's final manuscript, comprising 32 pages-all in his own handwriting, is owned by The New York Public Library. About September 1935 the Library is publishing a limited subscription edition of the Farewell Address, in facsimile, with transliterations of all drafts of Washington, Madison and Hamilton, together with their correspondence and other supporting documents, edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits, with an elaborate history of its origin and pitiful aftermath.

P.S.A.

New York, July 3, 1935"

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