The Honorable Riley Moore
1337 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Riley:
The purpose of this missive is to request of you to sponsor my GEORGE WASHINGTON FAREWELL ADDRESS REVIVIFICATION AND PRESERVATION ACT.
I have had it up to my ears with the charlatans and scoundrels who pose in front of the American flag inside government buildings surrounded by barricades in armed guards in the District of Columbia who think President George Washington's Farewell Address was a place where postal letter carriers delivered his mail - else some useless and obsolete artifact that has no place in modern day governance and international diplomacy -- and are steadfast in keeping His Excellency's final words to the American people in the sewer. I consider them to be THE GREATEST threat to our national security and survival. Chinese communists, Russia, North Korea, and Islamic jihadists have nothing over them!
They have besmirched and eradicated the FORMER glory of the name of Washington -- glory that was described by future-President Lincoln as follows:
“Washington is the mightiest name of earth -- long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name, a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor, leave it shining on.”
Personally, I think the above words should be prominently and conspicuously engraved in a large block of granite between the Reflecting Pool and Lincoln Memorial so they can be read by visitors looking at the Washington Monument while visiting the former, but that's a subject for another day. Let's first get indispensable passages of the Farewell Address engraved in stone at the Washington Monument in accordance with the McMillan Plan so that it can never be forgotten and ignored. I don't know if the original plan provided for its inscription but the revised one certainly should.
At this juncture in my life, I have concluded that my patriotism and zealous reverence for the Father of Our Country and his final words to the American people [I refer to it as THE DIRECTIONS] on how to run the federal government and relate to other nations is attributable to the fact my distant namesake was Col. William Prescott, an early American patriot whose distinguished service in the Continental Army under the command of General George Washington was notable -- particularly at the battle of Bunker Hill -- and was such that it resulted in a statue and obelisk HALF THE SIZE OF THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT and President Trump's recent executive proclamation in recognition of its 250th anniversary.
Another member of the Prescott family, Samuel, made an important -- yet unfortunately under-recognized -- mark on history in furtherance of the cause of America {which was, AHEM, according to Thomas Paine, was a cause for all mankind};
... completing the mission of the legendary Paul Revere and his compatriots.
I have recently expressed interest in joining the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and their representative has traced my ancestry to a Captain Jeremiah Prescott of New Hampshire who served in the militia. My admission is pending submission of certain documents.
Thus, my passion for American liberty is therefore, quite literally, in my DNA and I like to think their spirit for American independence from tyrannical and despotic government lives in me. And, for the record, my definition of tyranny is based on that described by James Madison in Federalist 47 [incidentally my reverence for President Jackson's farewell address ranks right alongside President Washington's].
I think it would be particularly befitting for West Virginia's congressional delegation to sponsor my GEORGE WASHINGTON FAREWELL ADDRESS REVIVIFICATION AND PRESERVATION ACT because, according to the US Senate historical office (details which have been deleted from the current version) a distinguished gentleman from our state set a record which has yet to be broken.
Delivery generally takes about 45 minutes. In 1985 Florida senator Paula Hawkins tore through the text in a record-setting 39 minutes, while in 1962 West Virginia senator Jennings Randolph, savoring each word, consumed 68 minutes.
It is important to note that Senator Randolph savored each word because; “They are so meaningful” - per his handwritten entry in the Farewell Address Notebook. For you and Shelley to bring forth this legislation would give West Virginians yet another thing to be proud of in the annals of history regarding the Father of Our Country.
It has come to my attention that your colleague Don Bacon from Nebraska has introduced H. Con. Res.13 - Providing that George Washington's "Farewell Address" shall be read at the beginning of each Congress. I wanted to send him the link so he could read this, but non-residents are screened out of sending messages.
With that in mind, I am sure he would be welcome co-sponsor as would be your distinguished colleague from Kentucky, the Honorable Thomas Massie - one of the very few on Capitol Hill I have ever seen make reference to President Washington's final words to the American people.
You may ask; why, after all these years after my previous correspondence with Shelley on this issue in spite of my abject disillusionment with the degeneration of our government into Leviathan of the Swamp -- and it's CONSOLIDATION OF POWER as forewarned by Presidents Washington and Jackson -- have I suddenly come back with this crusade? The answer is the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk as explained in my open letter to his widow and TPUSA.
“Many of my high school students are functionally illiterate. Theres no way they would even grasp the meaning of the founding fathers documents. We are living through Idiocracy.”
One of my earliest memories as a little boy was then-President Kennedy asking "Us, the people," to ask ourselves what we could do for our country. After having read President Washington's Farewell Address, I figured the least I could do is to BRING GEORGE WASHINGTON BACK TO WASHINGTON and see to it that he stays there and can never again be brushed aside and ignored as he has been in the 20th century and this far into the 21st.
And I am of the opinion my proposed GEORGE WASHINGTON FAREWELL ADDRESS REVIVIFICATION AND PRESERVATION ACT, Item #1 of my Project Goals, may just be what our country needs to get our government back on to its foundation. I hope you agree.
Although I do not have any relatives or friends buried there, I feel like I owe them something - like a deep debt of gratitude and commitment to honor and remember just who was the Father of Our Country and not tolerate his timeless admonitions to the American people and posterity being ignored and forgotten.
I suppose I should leave you with one of my favorite quotes from President Jackson's Farewell Address:
Repeat: “PROPHECY...WARNING US OF THE EVIL TO COME”“... the lessons contained in this invaluable legacy of Washington to his countrymen should be cherished in the heart of every citizen ... his paternal counsels would seem to be not merely the offspring of wisdom and foresight, but the voice of prophecy, foretelling events and warning us of the evil to come.”
Any questions?
From there, His Excellency went on to say;
“But if I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now & then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign Intrigue, to guard against the Impostures of pretended patriotism -- this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.”
I don't think it is too much to ask for his immortal words to "now and then recur" -- "to be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good" once every four years in a joint session of Congress. How about you?
This is a complete list of my goals.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Founder and Director
