George Washington Quotes
Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.
Washington, George. Letter to the President of Congress, 24 Sept. 1776. The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799, edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 6, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932, p. 113.
After the Revolutionary War, the army expected to be compensated and made provision for. But Massachusetts did very little for the Massachusetts line (the state troops were referred to as the “line”.) Shaw and many others looked to the new national government for a solution but a constitution had not even been discussed in convention in 1783 and would not for another 4 years. The Continental Congress could do almost nothing as they had few resources of their own and no power to require the states to do anything.
The South has always been backward compared to the rest of the nation. By the 21st century the gap had gotten narrower. However, one of the reasons that Mrs. Roosevelt was unpopular with the Southern whites was not only that she was an outspoken critic of segregation and associated with Negroes, but she would publically point out the areas of Southern backwardness. However, the upper and middle class Southerners resented anyone—especially “outsiders” publicly exposing Southern weakness.
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".
