From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 18 July 1795
To Edmund Randolph
Baltimore [Md.] 18th July 1795
Sir,
At this place, and in the moment I was about to step into my carriage, I was overtaken by an Express bearing the enclosed dispatches.1
As the application is of an unusual & disagreeable nature; and moreover, is intended, I have no doubt, to place me in an embarrassed situation, from whence an advantage may be taken; I forward it to you with a request, that you, the other two Secretaries and the Attorney General, will give it due consideration: and if it be proper for me to return an answer, that one may be drawn which will accord with all your ideas (if it can be done) and forwarded to me by Post, that I may transmit it from Mt Vernon.
In haste
[Go: Washington]
AL[S], DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB, DNA: RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The docket of the AL[S] indicates that GW retained this version of the letter.
1. GW referred to the express sent by the Boston selectmen concerning the meeting of citizens in that town on 13 July. The Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia) of 23 July printed a report from Baltimore: “While President Washington stopt at Grant’s tavern” on Saturday, 18 July, “an express arrived from Boston, with a packet addressed to him: and tho nothing of its contents has transpired, yet there is reason to believe, it was no less than a remonstrance against Mr. Jay’s treaty, from the inhabitants of that town.”