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Distillery is a business I am entirely unacquainted with; but from your knowledge of it
and from the confidence you have in the profit to be derived from the establishment, I am
disposed to enter upon one.... (George Washington, June 1797)

Washington did not seek merely a little profit, for his whiskey business produced 11,000
gallons of this highly intoxicating brew a year. This hardly seems like a saintly venture.
Slaves were also utilized in this venture. George Washington inherited ten slaves from his
father when he was eleven years old. At the end of his life there were more than 300 slaves
residing at his plantation known as Mount Vernon.

George Washington also lacked the compassion of Christ. As President he gave the
following instructions to military officers regarding the effort to wrest lands away from the
native American Indians.

Orders of George Washington to General John Sullivan, at Head-Quarters May 31, 1779

“The Expedition you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tribes
of the Six Nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents. The immediate objects
are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements, and the capture of as many
prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops now in
the ground and prevent their planting more.

I would recommend, that some post in the center of the Indian Country, should be
occupied with all expedition, with a sufficient quantity of provisions whence parties
should be detached to lay waste all the settlements around, with instructions to do it in the
most effectual manner, that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed.

But you will not by any means listen to any overture of peace before the total ruinment
of their settlements is effected. Our future security will be in their inability to injure us and
in the terror with which the severity of the chastisement they receive will inspire them.”
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Expedition]

In 1783, Washington's anti-Indian sentiments were apparent in his comparisons of
Indians with wolves: "Both being beast of prey, tho' they differ in shape," he said. George
Washington's policies of extermination were realized in his troops behaviors following a
defeat. Troops would skin the bodies of Iroquois "from the hips downward to make boot
tops or leggings." Indians who survived the attacks later re-named the nation's first
president as "Town Destroyer.” Approximately 28 of 30 Seneca towns had been destroyed
within a five year period. (Stannard, David E. AMERICAN HOLOCAUST. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1992. pp. 118-121.)