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"Free from the extremes both of vice and virtue."
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Now, that's Jeffersonian rhetoric.
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There's a lot of Jeffersonian rhetoric.
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George Washington,
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a man of much fewer words,
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put his views about the North a lot more succinctly.
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Okay. To Washington,
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New Englanders were, as he put it in 1777,
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right when he joined the continental army,
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and the continental army is in Massachusetts--
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Washington joins the army,
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he heads up to Massachusetts