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Washington supported Hamilton’s financial programs and sided with the Federalists in supporting the Jay Treaty with Britain. When Americans voted according to party loyalty, rather than the common interest of the nation, Washington feared it would foster a “spirit of revenge,” and enable the rise of “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men” who would “usurp for themselves the reins of government destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
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The 'Worst Enemy' of Government: Loyalty to Party Over NationĪccording to Washington, one of the chief dangers of letting regional loyalties dominate loyalty to the nation as a whole was that it would lead to factionalism, or the development of competing political parties. “Your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty and.the love of the one ought to endear you to the preservation of the other.” 2. Regions such as North, South, East and West should see their common interests rather than their differences, he continued. “The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.” “You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together,” Washington declared.
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After opening with an explanation of his choice not to seek a third term, Washington’s farewell address urged Americans not to put their regional and sectional interests above the interests of the nation as a whole.