The United States of America have journeyed per aspera ad astra. We have resisted all the obstructions that have arisen as an attempt of prevention of success of our Nation and have found our way through the mists of suffocating fog of resistance to Unity. Now we stand at yet another corner that could easily reverse our fortune as a Nation. Our President, George Washington, has declined the opportunity of holding office again. We are deeply regretful that such a champion of progress, supporter of unity and a man whose character literally paved the way for the creation of our great nation will not grace us with his presence as a leader.
Our President extends to us his final thoughts on the ideas that have before and will in the future preserve the United States. He communicates the idea of sacred unity ¾we must be in unison as a people and a nation; he warns us that we must not allow ourselves to encourage separation ¾such as the separation that underlies the idea of political parties that bring discord and agitation as a cause of a simple difference of opinion by creating "ill-founded jealousy" (171) ¾for we are one and we must stand together.
In his Farewell Address, President Washington instructs us not to seek alliances with foreign nations, for they bring disruption and corrupt the unity of our country. If forced to create an alliance we must stay impartial for it is the closeness to others not following our cause, as experience teaches us, that leads to our demise. This demise is provoked by subjective fancies towards other nations extending the fancy to your own.
Washington inculcates the idea that it is the people that formed the government and the Constitution and therefore, it is the people that should respect that Constitution and conform to its government. We must realize that we are Americans before all else.
It is his voice that will forever remain in our heads as we embrace his words and we realize that we are losing a leader.