I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be... George Washington - Seite 240von Henry Cabot Lodge - 1917 - 776 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Howard Lee McBain - 1907 - 192 Seiten
...And again, to Timothy Pickering, in regard to filling the office of Attorney General, " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government,...measures, which the general government are pursuing." 1 If Washington intended this literally, it might well be argued that there is no very great step between... | |
| Elroy McKendree Avery - 1910 - 586 Seiten
...to the appointment of September 17, an attorney-general: "I shall not, whilst I have the honor '79S to administer the government, bring a man into any...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide." Such was the condition of affairs when the third presi- Partisan dential election drew near. There... | |
| Mary Louise Hinsdale - 1911 - 376 Seiten
...Secretary of War : " I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the Government, bring a man into office of consequence, knowingly, whose political...it would embarrass its movements is most certain." " At least one candidate that attracted the President's favorable consideration for the State Department,... | |
| 1911 - 372 Seiten
...insupportable. He made a distinct declaration in a letter to his Secretary of War : " I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the Government, bring a man into office of consequence, knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures, which the General... | |
| Mary Louise Hinsdale - 1911 - 376 Seiten
...insupportable. He made a distinct declaration in a letter to his Secretary of War: " I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the Government, bring a man into office of consequence, knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures, which the General... | |
| Charles Austin Beard - 1915 - 518 Seiten
...September 25, 1795, he said: "I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring any man into any office of consequence knowingly whose...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide." l In this declaration, two fundamental principles are implied. One is that the establishment of certain... | |
| Edward Channing - 1917 - 600 Seiten
...knowingly appoint a man to an important office " whose political tenets are adverse to the measures w011 the general government are pursuing, for this, in my opinion, would be little better than political suicide." 1 Of men of equal abilities and political soundness, preference... | |
| Willis Mason West - 1918 - 846 Seiten
...a man into any office of consequence, knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures the general government are pursuing ; for this, in...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide." And Senator Bayard, as mouthpiece for Adams, declared, "The politics of the office-seeker will be the... | |
| David Saville Muzzey - 1918 - 362 Seiten
...out-and-out Federalist. "I shall not," the President wrote to Pickering in September, 1795, "while I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office whose political tenets are adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing, for this,... | |
| Everett Kimball - 1920 - 650 Seiten
...wrote to Pickering : I shall not, whilst I have the honor of administering the government, bring men into any office of consequence knowingly whose political tenets are adverse to the measures the general government is pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide.1... | |
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