The Washington Spurious Letters

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Excerpt from The Washington Spurious Letters: A Paper Read Before the Mount Vernon Society of DetroitI had stumbled upon a very rare and very famous, or rather infamous, publication, first issued in London and afterwards in this country by the Rivingtons and scattered broadcast over the land to put Washington before his countrymen in the light of a hypocrite, secretly opposed to the war and absolutely doubtful of its success, holding privately opinions totally at variance with his public position and duty as Commander-in-chief, and yet were these opinions so artfully intermingled with statements of actual facts connected with the distracted state of the country, and written with the air of one so entirely at home in the Washington household, it is not surprising that those not perfectly familiar with his absolute sincerity must have been greatly in¿uenced, while in England the letters could not but strengthen the warlike policy of King George and his cabinet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.