301To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 2 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor of inclosing to you a certificate from Judge Wilson, of my having qualified, as secretary of state. A duplicate is deposited among the files of the office. I must intreat you, sir, to receive my very affectionate acknowledgments, for the various instances of your confidence; and to be assured, that, let the consequence be, what it may, in this perilous office, no...
302To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
On my arrival at Baltimore, Colo. S. Smith gave me a very early and easy opportunity of conversing with him on the subject of his letter to Colo. Hamilton. He repeated the same alarm, as still existing in the breasts of the merchants; adding, however, a confidence in the executive, as being better qualified to judge, from a comprehensive view of our situation. My explanations were apparently...
303To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 15 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of laying before the President the copy of a proclamation, put into his hands by Govr. St Clair for that purpose. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The date, which is taken from the letter-book copy, did occur on a Saturday. The docket on the AL reads, “15. Feby 1794.” The enclosed...
304To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 29 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state has the honor of submitting to the President the inclosed rough draft of a letter to Mr G. Morris, for the present only. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosure was Randolph’s letter of recall to Gouverneur Morris, U.S. minister to France, of this date. Neither the enclosed draft nor any...
305To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 22 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
There is a report here, that a captain in the militia, who went from Philadelphia, and received the votes of his company, has destroyed the polls. It is added also, that they were unanimous for Swanwick. I am told, that some of the furious ones, since the publication of Mr Jay’s and Lord Grenville’s papers, are very absurdly offended, that Mr Jay, instead of negotiating , did not make a...
306To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 23 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The letter from Dr Edwards, which I have the honor of inclosing, is remarkable; as it comes from a man, who has been always considered, as being associated in what are called the Blue-Stocking politics of Pennsylvania. The letter, to which he alludes from Mr Jay, is on the 31st of July, and the original had been long ago received. A Jersey paper of Yesterday contains the second number of a...
307To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 5 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of reporting to the President of the United States upon the Laws of the present session of Congress, That the following are memoranda of all the Laws yet printed. 1. The alteration of the flag. 2. The relief of the Inhabitants of St Domingo—what remains to be executed is to obtain a credit with the French Republic; with which Mr Monroe will be charged. 3....
308To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 21 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed letter from Mr Bradford is this moment received. I sent by Mr Cottringer some other letters. I now add a letter from Innes to myself, a translation of the German letter, and a further letter and newspaper by the mail. I have the honor, sir, to be with the highest respect yr mo. ob. ser. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His...
309To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 1 October 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Edmund Randolph, 1 Oct. 1791. On 10 Oct. GW informed Randolph : “I received your communications of the 1st instant.”
310To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 2 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
The message and papers appear to me to be right. The Minister of France has certified a copy of the letter, the original of which is sealed. To say therefore that the sealed letter shall not be sent, seems to argue such a distrust of his veracity, that it would be very unkindly received. It was not the opinion of Colo. Hamilton or myself, that it should be suppressed, after this assurance was...
311To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 19 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that in a conversation last evening with Mr Madison, he was of opinion, that, altho’ the President had a legal right to dispose of the shares in the two companies, as he pleased; still it might be an unpleasant thing to Virginia to have them given to a continental, instead of a state object. Considering, that Virginia would have a...
312To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 15 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your friendly favor of the 30th Ultimo is this moment delivered to me. My three last letters since the 8th of October have, I hope, been received, and will satisfy you of my having determined to proceed to New York about the 15th of next month. You may be assured, that Mr Wythe neither wished nor expected to be the successor of Mr Pendleton. I will candidly tell you the reason, upon which this...
313To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 13 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
Mr Freire, the Portuguese Minister, is arrived; and he is to call upon me to-day at 2 o’clock. Mrs Washington having written this morning will have told you, that she and the family are in good health. There is great reason to fear, that the French are making rapid strides towards Amsterdam; notwithstanding the interruption, which Breda and Maestricht are likely to give them. I am writing to...
314To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 7 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of laying before the President, two letters received yesterday from mr Hammond, together with the draft of an answer. The Secretary will wait on the President on his return from the Department of the Treasury, to receive his instructions. L , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. Along with...
315To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 13 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of transmitting to the President, a Letter on the subject of Mr Fauchet’s demand, with three opinions —The President will be pleased to say, whether the papers shall or shall not be prepared for Congress. LB , DNA : RG 59, Domestic Letters. On the request of Fauchet, the French minister to the United States, for an advance payment of the U.S. debt to France, see...
316To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 14 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the honor of informing you the other day, that the House of Representatives would probably remit to my office the documents, which related to the vexations and spoliations on our trade; conceiving, that they were of a nature, purely executive. Yesterday the Senate, as if they meant to take up the subject in some shape or other, passed a vote, as I have heard, calling for an...
317To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia December 11. 1794. ½ past 12. o’clock E. Randolph with respectful compliments to the President, informs him, that he is obliged to go home, in order to take a dose of physic for the relief of his stomach and head from a load of bile, which is very oppressive and makes him very giddy. E.R. had the honor of calling at the President’s, while he was out on horseback; in order to...
318To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of submitting to the President the draft of a letter to Mr Hammond. The other subjects of complaint will probably be best in another letter. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The draft of this letter has not been found. A note written at the bottom of Randolph’s letter to GW states that the...
319To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 23 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state has the honor of transmitting the papers and message; taking at the same time the liberty of suggesting the propriety of instructing Mr Dandridge to inform the Speaker and Vice President, that this and the Secretary’s letter of yesterday are not in confidence. Otherwise, they will be concealed under the confidential message of yesterday from the public eye. To both...
320To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 5 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed letter has been delayed, longer than I intended. But whenever I have sat down to finish it, I have been unexpectedly interrupted. I trust, however, that it will reach you, before you shall have taken your definitive resolution. I have seen Fraunces thrice at the house; and he has informed me each time, that every thing was right. Parties run high here in the choice of electors and...
321To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 28 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor of inclosing to you two letters from the Minister of the French Republic. Upon the first, the opinion of the gentlemen was against mine, that a passport ought not to be granted. I thought it so urgent, a case, that ⟨I⟩ sent the letter immediately to them. This moment I have received another letter from Mr Fauchet. He represents his embarressment so strongly, that I cannot...
322To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 29 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that Mr Hammond has given him a duplicate of the letter to the governor of Jamaica, concerning Barney; but that Colo. Hamilton says, that the cutter going to Charleston is too infirm to proceed to Jamaica. The President will therefore be pleased to determine whether it be worth while to send a cutter from Baltimore for this special purpose,...
323To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of Reporting to the President, that of the fifty three Laws, passed during the late Session of Congress, the following only require his immediate attention. 1. The calling out of the Militia for the western service —This is understood to be done. 2. The Loan of two million of dollars —done. 3. Paying instalments of foreign debts —done. 4. The Algerine money...
324To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of sending to the President the Virginia Act concerning the shares, in page 12. of the session of October 1785 . There does not appear to be the smallest obstacle from the words of the act, to the giving of the Potowmac shares to the fœderal City. The President will therefore be pleased to say at the foot of the letter to the governor of Virginia, what he intends to...
325To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 23 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that the word, which he has observed to be omitted, was not omitted designedly, but in the hurry of copying; and would have struck E.R. upon a reperusal of the draft. It is certainly a word, which is very direct, and as probably as direct as can be with propriety, under the circumstances, to which the President has alluded. In this view, a...
326To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 1 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that Mr Jay carried with him Higginson’s instructions, in which it was expressly declared that the costs and damages of appeals were to be defrayed by the U.S: that this sentiment was long ago repeated to him; and lately by Mr Bayard. How he could have originally doubted, E.R. cannot tell. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA :...
327To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 30 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of receiving Your letter from Mount Vernon of the 24th instant. The accident, which befel you, had been the subject of much anxious inquiry; and I was very happy to be able to say, that it was not of a serious magnitude. Lest, however, your zeal for public duty should induce you to commence your return sooner than may suit your ease, I can assure you from the departments of war...
328Enclosure Edmund Randolph’s Opinion on Convening Congress, 5 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
On the question, whether congress be now called, At a past day this question was agitated; and it was an unanimous opinion, that congress should not be then called. A revision of that opinion confirms me in its propriety. Some farther reasons therefore, amounting to what the constitution calls an “ extraordinary occasion ” must have occurred since; before if that opinion is to be relinquished....
329To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 25 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
The damage, done to the Ship William of Glasgow, while she was detained by the French Republic, by order of the Executive of the United States, has been estimated at fifteen hundred and eighty dollars. Mr Fauchet being about to be informed, that this has been the case, and my letter to Colo. Monroe going to the same point, I beg leave to request a warrent on the contingent fund to that amount....
330To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 14 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The exterior and manners of Mr Freire, if it were possible to draw any conclusion at first sight, would indicate him, to wish to impress the belief, that he is in no habits of intimacy with either the English or Spanish diplomatic characters here: that he is averse to every entanglement of etiquette: that he is sent to render himself agreeable: He speaks English well, tho’ he means to...
331To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 15 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
In my letter of the 19th ultimo, I informed you of my purpose to overtake Mr Fauchet, if possible. I accordingly went to Newport in Rhode Island; where I had an interview with him. The abrupt and unexpected sailing of the French Frigate, La Meduse, on the morning of the day, after I arrived there, had nearly deprived me of the object of my journey. But I trust, that I am in possession of such...
332To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 8 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of informing the President of the United States, that he examined Mr Rittenhouse on the third instant, as to the state of the mint and received from him the inclosed answer. LB , DLC:GW ; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosed answer from David Rittenhouse has not been identified.
333To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 27 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of submitting to the President of the United States the following observations on the act, providing for the relief of such of the inhabitants of St Domingo, resident in the United States, as may be found in want of support. As soon as the act had passed, a letter (marked A) was written to the Representatives of the several states in Congress. Answers have...
334To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 28 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor of inclosing to you the first draught of the speech. In its arrangement and matter no change is intended by me, unless you should think proper to say something as to the too great ease of naturalization. The propriety of this is perhaps doubtful. However a note is made in the margin for your consideration. The matter is compounded of the sketch sent me, and what occurred...
335To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 24 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Randolph has the honor of returning to the President Colo. Smith’s letter. Mr R. begs leave to suggest, whether it may not be proper to add to the instruction, to be given to Mr Jefferson concerning Mr Genet’s conduct, that he should state the verbal conversations with him, which respected the granting of commissions within the U.S., and the order, that the privateers, so commissioned,...
336To John Adams from George Washington, 3 March 1795 (Adams Papers)
The Secretary of State does himself the honor of requesting the favor of an acknowledgment that the enclosed summons has got safe to hand. United States March 3. 1795. The President of the United States to the Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate Certain matters touching the public good, requiring that the Senate shall be convened on Monday the 8th of June next; you...
337To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
Among my first reflections upon the two letters, which you did me the honor of shewing to me yesterday and the day before, I could not forget, that they produced a degree of delicacy to myself. The authors of them are of the number of my friends; and one is closely connected with me by other considerations. However, I did not rest long upon any idea of this kind; being persuaded, that after my...