7521To George Washington from Henry Knox, 7 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration, the draft of a letter to M. General Wayne, together with copies of two former letters of the 20th of April and the 17th of May, which collectively will give a general view of his orders for the present campaign. I have the honor to be sir with perfect respect Your humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Gen. Anthony Wayne was currently in...
7522To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 7 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I fear our Letters have lateraly been capturd, or lost, as I have not had the Honour of a Letter from you these 3 months; I sent you all our Irish Papers by the Eliza (bound to New york) from the 8th of March to the 22d of may, which I hope you recived, as I collected them with the greatest Care, that you Should Know Every opinion, reports & Circumstances of the Present war. your Excellency...
7523To George Washington from Robert Donald, 6 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Will your Exellancy Permitt a fourty years agoe Aquentance to Sollicate your notice of the bearer Mr Jas D. Smith (my Nephew) who has been for some years an Inhabitant of your Province, and who I belive Intends removeing to your City of Washington, where under your Paternage I flatter myself he may push his way in your Riseing States, much better then I was able after a Seventeen years...
7524From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 6 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Upon a mature consideration of your communication to me of the 3d instant, recommending a still further Loan in Holland, if obtainable, to the amount of 3,000,000 florins—and stating, that in case the recommendation should meet my ideas, my special approbation thereof would be proper, I have thought it necessary, in order to make the subject clear to my mind before any steps are taken in it,...
7525To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I cannot but think that to decline the propositions of mister Genet on the subject of our debt, without assigning any reasons at all, would have a very dry and unpleasant aspect indeed. we are then to examine what are our good reasons for the refusal, which of them may be spoken out, & which may not. 1. want of confidence in the continuance of the present form of government, and consequently,...
7526To George Washington from Veritas, 6 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
AT this momentous crisis of our public affairs, when solemn treaties and the sacred rights of American citizens seem to be openly violated, it were treason against the dearest interests of America not to warn her first magistrate to shut his ears against the whispers of servile adulation, and to listen to the solemn admonitions of patriotic truth. Let not, I beseech you, the opiate of...
7527Cabinet Opinion on Sending an Agent to the Choctaws, 1–5 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
That an Agent be sent to the Choctaw nation to endeavor secretly to engage them to support the Chickasaws in their present war with the Creeks, giving them for that purpose arms and ammunition sufficient: and that it be kept in view that if we settle our differences amicably with the Creeks, we at the same time mediate effectually the peace of the Chickasaws & Choctaws, so as to rescue the...
7528From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury left the enclosed to day (without my seeing him) and is to call to morrow morning to know how it is approved, or what alterations to make. Whether to assign, or not to assign reasons for non-complying with the French Ministers proposals in one question—and the footing on which to decline doing it another—I wish you to consider these & if it is not convenient for...
7529To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to enclose him the answer to his note of yesterday. Should any article of it need explanation, he will be at the orders of the President for that purpose to do it either verbally or in writing. LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. For the enclosure, see below. Later on this date, GW...
7530Enclosure Thomas Jefferson’s First Opinion on a New Foreign Loan, 5 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Instructions having been given to borrow 2. millions of florins in Holland, & the Secretary of the Treasury proposing to open a further loan of 3. millions of florins, which he says “a comprehensive view of the affairs of the U.S. in various relations, appears to him to recommend,” the President is pleased to ask Whether I see any objections to the proposition? The power to borrow money is...