here Washington being the president, which is the ultimate politician, plays that card so perfectly that it just seems natural. Washington here states, “In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish—that they will control the usual current of the passions or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations” (Washington). This is the first time he calls his audience “countrymen”. This is a sense of Washington starting to get really personal with his readers as if he was speaking to a close friend. He is starting to create a bigger bond and some may even say in a personal way and it makes the readers want to get more into focus on what advice he is trying to give. Michael J. Hostetler goes into depth of the rhetorical criticism that many people are giving here. Here the author states, “No aspect of the American scene is more notorious than the scale of the landscape and the size of objects in it. Eyes accustomed to European vistas and artifacts may take years to adjust, as one visitor put it, to ‘the unnerving bigness of everything’ in America.”Jean Baudrillard has similarly observed, “As soon as you set foot in America, you feel the presence of an entire continent—space there is the very form of thought” (Hostetler). The vast size of North America is so overwhelming that when you just take that simple breath, it is just uncanny. It is the time of 1796 and people feel that air of freedom because their c>