251To 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...
252To 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...
253To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 27 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
The deed, of which I inclosed you the rough draught, has been duly executed and recorded. The register of the land-ofice has undertaken to have other patents made out in your name by the next week. I shall not however send them by the stage, which will be the first opportunity; but I shall defer it until the post. I am dear sir with the sincerest respect & esteem yr obliged & affte humble...
254To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 3 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
The post-offices have not been in fault in every respect; altho’ I did not receive from the one here your favor of the 5th Ulto until last night, notwithstanding my application for letters. Your inclosures of the proceedings of the Potowmack company were duly received by me: and the business of the general court pressing very urgently upon me, the answer to your favor was undertaken by the...
255To 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...
256To 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...
257To 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...
258To 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...
259To 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...
260To 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...
261To 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...
262To 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...
263To 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...
264To 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...
265To 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...
266To 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...
267Enclosure VI: Edmund Randolph to Thomas Newton, Jr., 19 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowledge the receipt of your letter to the President of the United States, communicating the collection of a sum of money for the relief of our Captive brethren in Algiers. The sensibility, displayed by those, who have contributed, is intitled to great respect. But notwithstanding the interest, which the President takes in the fate and happiness of our suffering fellow citizens, he...
268To 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,...
269To 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...
270To 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...
271To 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 :...
272To 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...
273To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 17 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
I received your favor of the 10th of July by the last post. You will excuse me, I hope, from accepting fees for any business, which I may execute for you in the line of my profession. It is indeed a poor mode of acknowledging the repeated acts of friendship, which I have experienced from your hands: but I beg to be gratified in this, the usual way, in which lawyers give some small testimony of...
274To 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....
275To 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...
276To 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...
277To 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...
278To 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,...
279To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Randolph, 14 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
The opinion is, 1. that the attorney for the district of Kentucky do forthwith take the most effectual measures for prosecuting according to law O’Fallon; and that he be informed, that unless the testimony within his reach will clearly subject him to the charge of treason, the prosecution be for a riot. 2. that a proclamation issue, reciting the treaties, law and further proclamation on this...
280To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 26 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge your favor of the 21st instant. It shall be properly attended to. Yesterday brought me from New-York a flood of letters from Europe. Mr Jay’s letters are of the 31. Jany—2d feby—5th feby—6. feby—and 22d feby—They mention the letters from me, containing observations upon the two projets; and that he shall write by the Philadelphia Ships fully in answer. He thinks...
281To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 2 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
The expression in the opinion of the secretary of the treasury, to which you refer in your favor of the 27th ultimo, appears to me to amount to this: that we have lost ground in not being able to give as strong proofs of our neutrality now , as we were some time ago. No doubt he alluded principally to the rejection of the clause, sent from the senate to the house of representatives, for...
282To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 12 September 1791 (Washington Papers)
If the Foederal laws were ever so precise in censuring the conduct, to which you alluded in your communication to me on Saturday last, I should doubt, whether the source of your information is not too delicate to become the groundwork of a public act. Courts would be very reluctant in extracting testimony from the mouth of an associate, and perhaps the character of government demands, that...
283To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 16 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor of inclosing to you a letter from Mr Z. Hollingsworth, attorney for the district of Maryland, in favor of Mr Graybell, as successor to Mr Ramsay. The silver coin of the U.S. bears upon its face so much neatness and simplicity, that I cannot restrain myself from transmitting a dollar for your inspection. In a letter of the 29th of July from Colo. Humphreys, an extract of...
284To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I saw Mr Bourne and Mr Bradford together yesterday. The former is disinclined to the office of district attorney, saying, among many other things by way of objection, that nothing would tempt him to bring down upon him the fire of both parties. They agreed in the superiority of Howell as to talents; but as he never read the law, until he began to practise, I cannot conceive, that he possesses...
285To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 4 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
No public dispatches, or public events have appeared, since I had the honor of writing to you yesterday. Mr Brown, the senator of Kentucky, who has been in town about three days, called upon me yesterday. He was not explicit, whether he had received letters from the western army; but I am convinced from the manner of his sounding me to discover, if I was prepared to listen with indulgence to...
286To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
I congratulate your Excellency, as a Friend to the Reputation of Virginia, and the Interests of the Continent, that Colo. Harrison is again restored to the Councils of America. During his Absence at the Northward, he had been appointed one of our privy Council, but refused to qualify, as such. This afforded him an Opportunity, to vindicate himself from those malicious Insinuations, which first...
287To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 22 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor of presenting to you some of those views, which the very delicate affair of the removal affords, and the result of a provisional inquiry, which I set on foot. 1. The charges have come in an ambiguous form; half-private, half-public; and it must be uncertain, until the arrival of the new-minister from France, to what extent those charges are to be pressed. To seize so...
288To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 21 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the papers, which I have now the honor of returning to you, a wish seems to be expressed, that the President should recommend to congress a digest of federal law, the appointment of one person only to such a service, and the selection of the author of those papers for that work. Whether at a future day, when congress shall appear to have neglected or slumbered over, the subject, it may be...
289To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 24 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
I affirm to you, that the delay, which has occurred in the arrival of my letter of the 8th instant to your hands, is not to be ascribed to me. It was sent to the post-office on friday the 9th; but too late, I believe, for the mail of that day. If I am not misinformed, it reached Alexandria on Wednesday, the 14th; from whence it was brought back on saturday, the 17th; you having passed thro’...
290To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 18 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The following remarks occur upon the statement of Colo. Hamilton, which you did me the honor of communicating to me this morning. 1. In what manner is it to be exhibited to the public? or in other words, is it to be introduced under the known or allowed countenance of the President? As I do not see, how the one or the other can be avoided, it seems proper to call his attention to these points....
291To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 2 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Sometime ago Mr Fitzhugh, of Chatham, gave me a list of tickets in Colo. Byrd’s lottery, in which yourself, several other gentlemen, as well as my father or uncle (I forget which) were jointly interested. He promised to procure, if possible, some more authentic grounds for proceeding in the recovery of the prize, and, if I do not mistake, he expected further information from you. I will thank...
292To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 2 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
The attorney general of the United States has the honor of submitting to the President of the United States the following considerations on the power and propriety of convening congress to a place, different from the city of Philadelphia. The constitution declares, that “neither house, during the session of congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more, than three days,...
293To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 5 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The late events in the neighbourhood of Pittsburg appeared, on the first intelligence of them, to be extensive in their relations. But subsequent reflection, and the conference with the governor of Pennsylvania, have multiplied them in my mind tenfold. Indeed, sir, the moment is big with a crisis, which would convulse the oldest government; and if it should burst on ours, its extent and...
294To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 24 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
My messenger, who carried into Philadelphia yesterday the letter, which I had the honor of addressing to you at Baltimore, brought from the post-office your favor of the 14th instant. It is but lately, that I could procure an intercourse with it: but he will go in again tomorrow, in order to convey this letter, and receive any others, which you may have thought proper to write to me. I have...
295To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 27 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I own, that if a loan could be completed to the amount of the whole fourteen millions, or if it could be even carried further, it would be adviseable, under the present situation of things, to go very great lengths, in obtaining money. But this is not the question; and as I think the step, which you may now take, will be much examined by the public, I will endeavour to present the case to you...
296Memorandum from Edmund Randolph, 17 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The attorney general has the honor of submitting to the President the following opinion. It appears, that a privateer has been equipped and commissioned at Charleston in South Carolina, under the authority of the French government; and was at the same time manned in part by American citizens: that on the high seas she captured an English vessel; and that both of them are now in the port of...
297To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 17 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
I am afraid, that there was some mistake in the newspapers, sent by Mrs Washington the day before yesterday, by omitting those of wednesday, and inclosing the morning prints of tuesday. I shall direct this to be rectified by the present mail. Major Butler, of South Carolina, and Mr Paine, of Vermont, yesterday acknowledged the summons to the senate, and say, that they shall obey it. Of Read,...
298To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 8 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter from Mr Bradford appears to deserve to be sent by express. The separate powers, which he asks, tho’ they cannot with propriety be demanded by insurgents, will be forwarded by a special messenger, to gratify him; if the two other Secretaries approve of them. I shall carry Neville’s and Lenox’s account of the matters with me in the evening to German Town; as I shall watch for...
299To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 24 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Soon after I had the honor of writing to you from Annapolis, I found an occasion of entering into discourse with the governor of Maryland on the subject of our political situation. He appeared to have been caught by the same apprehensions, as had taken hold of the people of Baltimore; and was very minute in his inquiries. Some hours afterwards he called at my lodgings, and in the presence of...
300To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 19 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of inclosing to the President the last part of the letter to Mr Fauchet. It was intended to have been much more diffuse; but the intelligence about the memorial makes it clear, that the subject will be there poured forth in folio; and, as he has as yet only fired some scattering shot, it is perhaps better to see the points, to which his battery is directed. There are...