[Vigilanteman]

Superb article on a great document from America's founding days which many of us have heard quoted but none of us have seen . . . written by none other than the Father of Our Country.

[Wu]

Excellent book.

[muawiyah]

B’nai B’rith has, in recent years, given up on the “no persecution” part. i don’t think they agree with that anymore they they used to.

[Wuli]

I hope some “angels” convince (pay) the holders of this letter to give it up and I hope those “angels” donate it to some place that can maintain public access to it. If I win the Loto tonite, maybe I’ll try to do that (after I pay my bills).

[KingLudd]

Geo.Washington’s papers online. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html

Library of Congress also has 12 maps in Washington’s hand. LOC considers Washington not only president, but surveyor and map maker. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gwmlst.html

[JWinNC]

Decent article from what appears to be a very lib-regressive website.

[donna]

His [Washington] famous answer, assuring his fellow citizens “of the Stock of Abraham” that the new American republic would give “to bigotry no sanction, to persecution not assistance,” is seen here in the copy from Washington’s letterbook.

George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in New Port, Rhode Island
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Comments
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel06.html

[AnalogReigns]

The fact that the original letter hasn’t been available for years really doesn’t trouble me much at all...as we (all) have facsimiles of it, and we can know the content. Washington and the founders favored religious tolerance...and so do we—at least everyone but the far Left (and the tiny far right). What is the issue?

There are no known original copies of the Bible either...but that doesn’t prevent us from studying it and keeping its laws.

This is a scholar’s tempest in a teapot, IMHO.