1From George Washington to the Inhabitants of Frederick, Maryland, 1 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
I express with great pleasure my obligations to your goodness, and my gratitude for the respectful and affectionate regard which you are pleased to manifest towards me. Your ascripition of my public services over-rates their value, and it is justice to my fellow-citizens that I should assign the eminent advantages of our political condition to another cause—their valor, wisdom, and virtue—from...