In another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Greatness is a quality which is of many sources. George Washington was hated because of a greatness like Moses in he was a just man.
Even one of my family, Abraham Clarke of New Jersey, signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Hero and father of Heroes in the Revolution watched Washington closely as while he thought Washington a good man, he was concerned he was not an infallable man.
I have found that like most men, my Heroic relative, was more prone to distrusting George Washington from weaknesses which Representative Clarke was prone to, so the sin lay not in George Washington, but in his own fallableness.
There were other small men with names like Bache and Freneau, writers of things picking at their own scabbed up souls. A Giles in Congress with 12 other angry men who ejaculated like a venerial disease discharge on the House floor with mean words against the man who pledged all, gave all and served all in creating America and her image in God's Grace, but no one remembers then, and few like me wonder what shameful spawn of their issue still pollutes the earth.
There were other even smaller men.
"Jefferson disliked him because he blocked his path, but with habitual caution he never proceeded beyond a covert sneer implying that Washington's mental powers, at no time very great, were impaired by age during his presidency, and that he was easily deceived by practised intriguers. Pickering, with more boldness, set Washington down as commonplace, not original in his thought, and vastly inferior to Hamilton, apparently because he was not violent, and did not make up his mind before he knew the facts."
Henry Cabot Lodge
Yes, Jefferson hated George Washington, because President and General Washington stood in the way of Jeffersons delusions of hiding in intellect when one is an effeminate male and hiding on estates when the real men were at Valley Forge with George Washington.
Yes, Pickering hated George Washington, because President and General Washington could not be moved to emotional intrigue and never revealed his mind, so it could be picked at. It is strange then that the greatest mind in America in Alexander Hamilton willingly served George Washington and deferred to that commonplace mind in all things.
Great men who are just are a great burden for the flawed masses. George Washington was such in the Jefferson democrats. The majority praised the Hero to be looked up to, but the sullen Jeffersonians hated the glare of George Washington as it revealed all their broken pieces inside.
They tried to tear down George Washington, but could not do it. Others arrived in the 20th century to attempt to bear false witness in hinting of infidelity which could not have been and other weaknesses of desiring power, but even they in the short eclipse of their dark veil faded, and that is what the detractors have attempted to do, in not being able to sully George Washington, they did tried to forget him and not speak of him, so this Beacon upon Ronald Reagan's Shinging City on the Hill would not be noticed anymore.
George Washington is noticed though and thrills all who touch the presence of this Gentleman, who was more than Hollywood fiction could ever create. George Washington was real and he was all that every true American knew in their souls was what it was to be a real American.
George Washington is to be looked up to as the example of the First American, for he was and always will be. He arrived first in the hearts of his countrymen, because he gave up kingship for Government by the people, for the people and of the people.
Small men have faded. Smaller men have had their minions whittle their wobble dolls to always a right themselves in history never to disclose they were the Judas in the hour of trial.
George Washington is the largest of Americans which none could ever equal. He is the zenith of the sun in the sky and shines upon the American he created to the heroic which all American who are Patriots can always look up to.
Thomas Jefferson is a fiction of memoirs of a shrew released after his death in excuses made for his vermin soul. George Washington is a reality of America in a life of duty, justice and honor which lives on as that Beacon in that Shining City on the Hill.
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