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Show Standard of Excellence Washington was born a Virginian and died an American. The last public pub-lic address he made to his countrymen country-men contained an appeal to eialt, "American," which belonged to them ln their national capacity, above all appellations derived from local discriminations. dis-criminations. The name that he left Is not only incomparably the greatest to which all classes and sections of his own country can as yet pay equal tribute; trib-ute; but for a century and a half it has been to the whole world a byword for liberty and unselfish public service and self-abnegation. Detroit Free Tress. |