22781To George Washington from Kentucky Citizens, 24 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
To the PRESIDENT and CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; T he REMONSTRANCE of the S ubscribers , C itizens of the C ommonwealth of KENTUCKY, SHEWETH: THAT your Remonstrants have observed with concern and indignation, the injuries and insults offered to the United States by the king of Great Britain. He has violated in important parts, that treaty of peace, the observance of which might...
22782From the Commissioners Sent to Western Pennsylvania, 24 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Commissioners, appointed to confer with the Citizens in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania, in order to induce them to submit peaceably to the laws, and to prevent the necessity of using coercion to inforce their execution, respectfully report to the President of the United States: That, in pursuance of their instructions, they repaired to the Western Counties; and, on their arrival...
22783To George Washington from Anonymous, 16 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
The hand that now addresses you had never the honor of being in contact with yours, and altho’ the Author has been in your company, he is entirely unknown to you—His motive for this epistle proceeds neither from vanity, or base adulation—he loves his country & its constitution—he has been a Witness of your personal services in freeing America from bondage, and establishing a Government for its...
22784Address from the Senate to George Washington, 16 May 1789 (Adams Papers)
We the Senate of the United States, return you our sincere thanks for your excellent speech delivered to both Houses of Congress; congratulate you on the compleat organization of the federal Government, and felicitate ourselves and our fellow-citizens on your elevation to the Office of President: an Office highly important by the Powers constitutionally annexed to it and extremely honorable...
22785To George Washington from an unknown correspondent, 4 March 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from unknown, 4 March 1795. On 14 March, Robert Montgomery wrote Edmund Randolph: “a Swedish Ship arrived here from Algiers brings me the inclosed letter of the 4th Current to his Excelly the President With a Statement of the demand made by the Dey for a peace with the united States” ( DNA : RG 59, Consular Despatches, Alicante). A docket on Montgomery’s letter states that...
22786To George Washington from Anonymous, 12 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
The genius and spirit of the constitution of the United States requires, not only that the government should be administered for the general good of the people, but that the mode of doing it, and the instruments employed in it, should be accomodated to the general Will. This general Will is properly declared by general suffrage so far as the choice of the administrators of the government is...
22787To George Washington from an unidentified person, 6 Aug. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from an unidentified person, 6 Aug. 1779. On 9 Aug., GW wrote an unidentified person: “I was favored with your letter of the 6th Inst. and its inclosure from Governor Trumbul.”
22788To George Washington from the committee on the mustering department, 5 July 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from the committee on the mustering department, 5 July 1779. GW wrote the committee on 20 Aug.: “I was duly honored with your letter of the 5th of last month.”
22789To George Washington from “A Sincere Friend,” 11 February 1797 (Washington Papers)
Knowing your regard for all Public utility & benefit; I beg leave to acquaint you of my having a prescription for the Dropsy, it’s great simplicity & mild performance of the cure, is very remarkable. In what manner or mode, I should communicate it, to the Legislature of this Country, is what I would be happy in being inform’d of. With great Respect—I am Yr Excellency’s—Most Obedt Servt AL ,...
22790To George Washington from Officers among the Sappers and Miners, 19 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
[ West Point, 19 Dec. 1780 ]. Capt. Lt. David Bushnell and four other officers write about “the many disagreeable circumstances that attend us and the many embarrasments under which we labour.” They do not receive “equal priviledges with the rest of the Officers in the Continental Army,” and their service “has hitherto been such as not to entitle us to any great share of Military respect.”...