...by the British selectmen. In his response of July 28, the President defensively reminded them that "in every act of my administration I have sought the happiness of my fellow citizens." 5 Predisposed at first toward the treaty, he was facing a landslide of opposition...

...principles which influenced him in regard to the treaty: " In every act of my administration," said he," I have sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens....one great whole; to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection; and to consult only the substantial and permanent...

...principles which influenced him in regard to the treaty: " In every act of my administration," said he," I have sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens....one great whole; to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection; and to consult only the substantial and permanent...

...maintain his simple desire to hold the United States together in its infancy. "This object has uniformally been to overlook all personal, local, and partial...contemplate the United States as one great whole," he wrote of the administration, and understood that none of the hundreds of dreams of his countrymen...

...Writing to those he deemed worthy of response, Washington asked for faith in his personal character: "In every act of my administration, I have sought the happiness of my fellow citizens" by ignoring "personal, local and partial consideration" in favor of the "permanent...

...TOWH or BOSTON." "GENTLEMEN, " United States, 28«A July, 1795. " In every act of my administration 1 have sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens. My...one great whole; to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection; and to consult only the substantial and permanent...