...Vernon, 27th September, 1795," to Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War, Washington urges: " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government,...it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the true interests of their country, of equal abilities, and...

...Vernon, 27th September, 1795," to Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War, Washington urges : " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government,...it would embarrass its movements Is most certain. But of two men equally well afl'ected to the true interests of their country, of equal abilities, and...

...experience with a wrangling cabinet, the statement regarding the attorney-generalship : " I shall not bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide." f In minor appointments, Washington carried out, so far as possible, a distributive geographical rule....

...the polls shall be friendly to it. Washington stated the principle clearly in saying " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government,...adverse to the measures which the general government is pursuing, for this in my opinion would be a sort of political suicide : that it would embarrass...

...Vernon, 27th September, 1795," to Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War, Washington urges: " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government,...office of consequence knowingly, whose political tenets arc adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would...

...proceed from the relics of old Federalism. On this subject General Washington says : " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the Government,...adverse to the measures which the General Government is pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass...

...consequence, knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures which the General Government is pursuing; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort...suicide. That it would embarrass its movements is certain." Now, sir, if any freak of destiny should ever place me in one of these executive departments,...

...offices — cabinet offices and those intimately advisory — Washington said, " I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the government, bring...adverse to the measures which the general government is pursuing, for this in my opinion would be a sort of political suicide." The Republican Jefferson...

...for party work, although, when party opposition became clearly defined, he wrote Pickering that to "bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures which the General Government is pursuing," would be, in his opinion, "a sort of political suicide." To integrity and capacity, as...

...consequence, knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures which the general government is pursuing, for this in my opinion would be a sort of political suicide." The Rapublican Jefferson and Federalist Bayard both reiterated this doctrine in 1800, and took care...