A prophetic father of his country, President George Washington issued his Farewell Address as he approached ... the darkest hours of the rebellion. But party divisions arose in the United States ...

George Washington used the light of this brass candle stand while laboring over his farewell address in 1796 ... Washington, who claimed no political party, wrote to Jefferson, “The first ...

The dawn of American democracy didn’t take place in 1776, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It didn’t come in 1788, when the Constitution was ratified, or in 1789, when ...

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten ... need more than a powerful political party; he’d depend on a cabal of powerful ...