The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts, Band 8Ferdinand Andrews, 1839 |
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... PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS . New Windsor , 8 April , 1781 . The enclosed return , made up to the first of the month , will show the number of recruits , who have joined this post of the Continental army since its form- ation upon the new ...
... PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS . New Windsor , 8 April , 1781 . The enclosed return , made up to the first of the month , will show the number of recruits , who have joined this post of the Continental army since its form- ation upon the new ...
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... and favorable answer , being , with great esteem and regard , & c . * * The invitation was accepted by Mr. Trumbull . SIR TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS . New Windor , 14 [ ÆT . 49 . WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS . TO JONATHAN TRUMBULL, JUNIOR. ...
... and favorable answer , being , with great esteem and regard , & c . * * The invitation was accepted by Mr. Trumbull . SIR TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS . New Windor , 14 [ ÆT . 49 . WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS . TO JONATHAN TRUMBULL, JUNIOR. ...
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... PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS . New Windor , 16 April , 1781 . Previous to the receipt of your letter , * I had di- rected the commissary of prisoners to renew a pro- posal , which was some time since made to the enemy , for exchanging General ...
... PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS . New Windor , 16 April , 1781 . Previous to the receipt of your letter , * I had di- rected the commissary of prisoners to renew a pro- posal , which was some time since made to the enemy , for exchanging General ...
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... PRESIDENT OF DEAR SIR , NEW HAMPSHIRE . New Windsor , 10 May , 1781 . Major - General Heath , second in command , and an officer whose high rank and consideration entitle him to particular notice and attention , is prevailed upon to ...
... PRESIDENT OF DEAR SIR , NEW HAMPSHIRE . New Windsor , 10 May , 1781 . Major - General Heath , second in command , and an officer whose high rank and consideration entitle him to particular notice and attention , is prevailed upon to ...
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... various agents in France , and other causes , there had been an extraordinary delay in sending out the military TO EZRA STILES , PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE . SIR 44 [ ÆT . 49 . WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS . TO THE CHEVALIER PAUL JONES. ...
... various agents in France , and other causes , there had been an extraordinary delay in sending out the military TO EZRA STILES , PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE . SIR 44 [ ÆT . 49 . WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS . TO THE CHEVALIER PAUL JONES. ...
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Seite 504 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Seite 441 - Government, — the free cultivation of Letters, — the unbounded extension of Commerce, — the progressive refinement of Manners — the growing liberality of sentiment, and above all the pure and benign light of Revelation, have had a meliorating influence on Mankind and increased the blessings of Society...
Seite 557 - Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can — go; and carry with you the jest of Tories and the scorn of Whigs — the ridicule, and, what is worse, the pity of the world. Go — starve and be forgotten.
Seite 562 - My God! what can this writer have in view, by recommending such measures? Can he be a friend to the Army? Can he be a friend to this Country? Rather, is he not an insidious Foe? Some Emissary, perhaps, from New York, plotting the ruin of both, by sowing the seeds of discord and separation between the Civil and Military powers of the Continent?
Seite 505 - THE successful termination of the war has verified the most sanguine expectations, and my gratitude for the interposition of providence, and the assistance I have received from my countrymen, increases with every review of the momentous contest.
Seite 563 - ... the gratification of every wish so far as may be done consistently with the great duty I owe my country, and those powers we are bound to respect, you may freely command my services to the utmost extent of my abilities.
Seite 446 - The ability of the country to discharge the debts which have been incurred in its defence, is not to be doubted. An inclination, I flatter myself, will not be wanting; the path of our duty is plain before us ; honesty will be found, on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy. Let us, then, as a nation, be just ; let us fulfil the public contracts which Congress had undoubtedly a right to make for the purpose of carrying on the war, with the same good faith we suppose ourselves bound...
Seite 442 - ... the ill-fated moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one State against another, to prevent their growing importance, and to serve their own interested purposes.
Seite 555 - Age has its claims, and rank is not without its pretensions to advice ; but, though unsupported by both, he flatters himself, that the plain language of sincerity and experience will neither be unheard nor unregarded. " Like many of you he loved private life, and left it with regret. He left it, determined to retire from the field with the necessity that called him to it, and not till then ; not till the enemies of his country, the slaves of power, and the hirelings of injustice were compelled to...
Seite 504 - This is the last letter I shall write, while I continue in the service of my country. The hour of my resignation is fixed at twelve to-day; after which I shall become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac...