691To George Washington from Philadelphia Citizens, 25 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of the Citizens of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties and District of Southwark, in the State of Pennsylvania, Respectfully sheweth. That your Memorilists, sincerely and affectionately attached to you, from a sense of the important services, which you have rendered to the United States, and a conviction of the purity of the motives, that will forever regulate your public...
692To George Washington from Portsmouth, N.H., Citizens, c.9 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
We the subscribers Merchants and others Inhabitants of the town of Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire would represent to the President of the United States. That in our opinion the Treaty lately concluded betwen the United States and Great Britain, as recommended to be ratified by the Senate, is advantageous to the commercial and other interests of our country, has on equal terms ensured...
693To George Washington from Portsmouth, N.H., Citizens, 17 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
Convinced of your inviolable attachment to the Interest & happiness of the States over which you preside & your readiness on all occasions to attend to every just complaint of the People—We the Citizens of Portsmouth constitutionally assembled in public Town meeting to signify our opinions relative to the Treaty between Great Britain & the United States of America consented to by a Majority of...
694To George Washington from Richmond, Va., Citizens, 30 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The citizens of Richmond respectfully beg leave to enclose a copy of their proceedings of their meeting of yesterday and this day and to give their reasons in support of the principles therein laid down. They deem the said Treaty to be insulting, Because— At a time when we were most grievously oppressed by the British Nation on the High Seas, contrary to all the rules of national law and...
695To George Washington from the Citizens of Richmond, Virginia, 17 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Impress’d with a full conviction of the wisdom of your administration in general, and especially approving that system of conduct which you have adopted, and steadily observed towards the belligerent powers of Europe, we, the inhabitants of Richmond and its vicinity in the Commonwealth of Virginia, are happy in an opportunity of conveying to you these our genuine sentiments. When propitious...
696To George Washington from the Citizens of Salem, Massachusetts, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Fully and deeply impressed with the wisdom, propriety and policy of the measure, which you have lately adopted in issuing your proclamation, wherein it is declared that the duty and interest of the united States require, that they should with sincerity, and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct, friendly and impartial towards the Belligerent powers therein mentioned; And Contemplating with...
697To George Washington from Savannah, Ga., Citizens, 1 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
This accompanies the proceedings of a very considerable number of the Citizens of the United States convened in the City of Savannah for the purpose of taking into consideration the impending Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation between his Britainnic Majesty and the United States of America expressive of their Sentiments thereon. To a People who feel for their Country and have its welfare...
698To George Washington from the Citizens of Savannah, Georgia, 8 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Citizens of Savannah, strongly impressed with the danger and mischeifs, to which the United States have been exposed, by the possibility of their being involved in the War existing between those European Nations, with whom we are most intimately united in Amity, and connected by Commerce; beg leave to take this method of expressing to you, the sincere and cordial sentiments of approbation...
699To George Washington from Scott County, Ky., Citizens, 25 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
The free men of Scott County met at Georg Town on the 25th day of August 1795—(agreable to Notification) and after Chusing a Moderator Proceded to take under consideration the Treaty of amity Commerce and Navigation betwen the United States and his Britannic Majesty Concluded at London the 19th day of November 1794 by Lord Greenville and John Jay, and in part Advised and Consented too by two...
700To George Washington from Suffolk County, N.Y., Citizens, 6 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency George Washington Esq. President of the United States, the Memorial of the Subscribers, Respecfully sheweth that your Memorialists have been Elected by Meetings of a Number of Respectable Citizens in the Several Towns of EastHampton, Southampton, Southold, Riverhead, BrookHaven, and Smithtown, in the County of Suffolk, and State of New York, for the purpose of taking into...