78901Report on the Petition of Robert Oliver and Hugh Thompson, [2 February 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
[To the President of the Senate] The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred by the Senate, the Memorial of Oliver and Thompson respectfully makes thereupon the following report. It is the object of this Memorial to obtain restitution for a sum of duties alleged to have been overpaid in the district of Baltimore in consequence of certain mistakes. The business of rectifying mistakes in...
78902To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 2 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
After so long an experience of your public services, I am naturally led, at this moment of your departure from office —which it has always been my wish to prevent—to review them. In every relation, which you have borne to me, I have found that my confidence in your talents, exertions and integrity, has been well placed. I the more freely render this testimony of my approbation, because I speak...
78903From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 2 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I forbear to make any comments on that violent sense of duty which at this late and critical hour has compelled the virtuous mind of Mr. Coxe to make to you the communication contained in his letter of yesterday. I shall proceed to submit to The President with candour and truth my view of the case. Towards this it will be useful to cite the expressions of the Act referred to. They are these...
78904To George Washington from John Taylor Gilman, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose herewith, an Attested Copy of an Act of the legislature of this State Entitled, “An Act to ratify an Article proposed in amendment to the Constitution of the United States,” and of being, with great respect, Sir, Your most obedient servant. Copy, DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, second session, entry 33. The copy was transmitted to Congress with GW’s first...
78905From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
After so long an experience of your public services, I am naturally led, at this moment of your departure from office —which it has always been my wish to prevent—to review them. In every relation, which you have borne to me, I have found that my confidence in your talents, exertions and integrity, has been well placed. I the more freely render this testimony of my approbation, because I speak...
78906To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I forbear to make any comments on that violent sense of duty which at this late and critical hour has compelled the virtuous mind of Mr Coxe to make to you the communication contained in his letter of yesterday. I shall proceed to submit to The President with candour and truth my view of the case. Towards this it will be useful to cite the expressions of the Act referred to. They are these “In...
78907From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Oliver Wolcott Junr to be Secretary for the Treasury Department of the United States, vice Alexander Hamilton, who has resigned that office. LS , DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB , DLC:GW . The Senate confirmed this nomination on 3 Feb. ( Senate Executive Journal Journal of the Executive...
78908From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I nominate the following persons to fill the offices annexed to their respective names. Matthew Clarkson, to be Commissioner of Loans for the State of New York; vice John Cochran, resigned. John Burnham, to be Collector for the port of Gloucester in Massachusetts; vice Eppes Sargent, resigned. Enoch Sawyer, to be Collector of Camden in North Carolina; vice Isaac Gregory, resigned. Thomas...
78909To George Washington from William Williams, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
It is not without concern & anxiety That I dare undertake to do an act which I fear may be considered a transgression of the rules of propriety. Your Excellency will be surprized but I hope not deeply & durably offended, that so small an Individual as I am sho’d presume to address a Letter to such a Personage as yourself. Your Excellency’s very great & all important Services to your Country,...
78910To George Washington from Leighton Wood, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
In consideration of my having spent many Years in the service of Virginia (eleven of them as Auditor & Solicitor) and of the present low Salaries to Clerks, I am most reluctantly compelled by necessity to intrude on your Goodness; soliciting your appointment to some office that you may suppose me capable of conducting without manifest disadvantage to the Interest of the United States. I have...