1From George Washington to Jabez Bowen, 27 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
The letters with which you have been pleased to favor me, dated in Octr and the 15th of the present month came duly to hand, and are entitled to my thanks for the communications contained in them. As it is possible the conduct of Rhode Island (if persevered in) may involve questions in Congress which will call for my official decisions, it is not fit that I should express more than a wish—in...