George Washington Quotes
I have never yet seen the time in which our affairs, in my opinion, were at so low an ebb as at the present.
The American Revolution was a trying time, not only militarily but in just about every other way as well. This was the low point.
George Washington, 1732-1799, 1st President of the United States (VA), 1779
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The American Revolution was a trying time, not only militarily but in just about every other way as well. Washington was quite pessimistic in 1778 as this quotation demonstrates. But it was to get worse. See {624230}. And the rapacity even extended to war profiteering. {624227}.
Niles shared with his close friend his great fear of a Civil War between South and North. He published in Baltimore (Maryland then being a slave state) and saw the slavery issue as leading the nation to national conflict three decades before it actually happened. As a distinguished Southerner he was respected and influential in the North where his Register was widely circulated. He himself however opposed slavery, and this made many of his attempts to prevent civil war ineffective as the more rabid Southerners saw anyone opposed to slavery as an enemy. See his editorial warning about the Civil War: {615640}.
- Born: February 22, 1732
- Died: December 14, 1799
- Nationality: American
- Profession: President
George Washington was the first President of the United States (1789-97), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the current United States Constitution and during his lifetime was called the "father of his country".
