In the summer of 1783 there was much confusion and fear about the future of the country. The war of independence had been won, but the states were still scrambling to decipher how they would interact with each other and with Congress. Before George Washington resigned from his post as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, he wrote a letter to all the governors (it was intended for the entire American community as well). This letter is known as the “Circular Letter to the States.”
Washington begins, “I think it is a duty incumbent on me, to make this my last official communication, to congratulate you on the glorious events which Heaven has been pleased to produce in our favor.” Here, and in other correspondences and speeches, Washington clearly holds that God had a hand in supplying the American project with the strength to be victorious.
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