1From George Washington to the Inhabitants of New Bern, North Carolina, 20–21 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I express with real pleasure the grateful sentiments, which your address inspires. I am much indebted, in every personal regard, to the polite attentions of the citizens of Newbern, nor am I less gratified by their patriotic declarations on the situation of our common country—pleasing indeed is the comparison which a retrospect of past scenes affords with our present happy condition, and...