Thomas Prichard Rossiter, American and Louis Rémy Mignot, American
“Okay, This Cherry Tree Reaction Is Getting Out of Control. I’m Now Thinking We Do a Press Conference Where You Pledge To Plant 2500 Cherry Trees Around the Reflecting Pool. And Maybe a Sit-Down With Oprah?,” 1859
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/// At Mount Vernon, George greets Lafayette.
Not in wartime, as when they first met.
In the scene, without notice
from the Frenchman or POTUS,
are enslaved people, (lest we forget).
/// Though a guest at a working plantation,
Lafayette favored emancipation.
He would even suggest
that George join in a test
giving workers pay and education.
/// This experiment Lafayette planned
would be on French colonial land.
Gradual manumission
was the Marquis’ position,
and the use of the whip would be banned.
/// Lafayette wrote of this in a letter.
George’s backing would make the test better.
But George didn’t sign on
so the test case was gone.
(Washington without slaves? Soon a debtor.)
/// “I’m so glad you could come,” George repeated.
“Do please pull up a chair and be seated.
You look well, Lafayette,
and your red coat’s, I’d bet,
souvenir of the foe we defeated.”
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/// Though George never had kids, don’t feel bad.
Martha’s daughter and son called him Dad.
Step-grandchildren, as well,
at Mount Vernon would dwell.
such as “Wash” the loquacious young lad.
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/// As an Anglican (maybe a Deist),
George’s views on religion were freest.
Critiquing the fitness
of a Jehovah’s Witness:
“Please stop ringing my damn doorbell!” he hissed.