9391Enclosure: Statement from the French Republic, 9 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
Summary statement of the complaints of the French Republic, against the Government of the United States. 1st Complaint. 1. The courts of Justice of the United States have taken cognisance and still take cognisance of the prizes which our privateers conduct into their ports, notwithstanding the express clause of the Treaty against it. Our ministers have proposed various arrangements for...
9392To George Washington from “A feeling Sufferer,” 7 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Pardon the seeming Indecency of an anonymous Epistle, for which the Occasion may be some Apology. The Growth of the City of Washington was supposed an Object near your Heart. On this Presumption, great Numbers of Tickets in the present Lottery were purchased in New-England, which the Adventurers have long since had Cause to regret. Do not suffer that unblushing, Bottle-conjuring Villain...
9393To George Washington from an unknown correspondent, 4 March 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from unknown, 4 March 1795. On 14 March, Robert Montgomery wrote Edmund Randolph: “a Swedish Ship arrived here from Algiers brings me the inclosed letter of the 4th Current to his Excelly the President With a Statement of the demand made by the Dey for a peace with the united States” ( DNA : RG 59, Consular Despatches, Alicante). A docket on Montgomery’s letter states that...
9394To George Washington from Anonymous, 12 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
The genius and spirit of the constitution of the United States requires, not only that the government should be administered for the general good of the people, but that the mode of doing it, and the instruments employed in it, should be accomodated to the general Will. This general Will is properly declared by general suffrage so far as the choice of the administrators of the government is...
9395To George Washington from “A Sincere Friend,” 11 February 1797 (Washington Papers)
Knowing your regard for all Public utility & benefit; I beg leave to acquaint you of my having a prescription for the Dropsy, it’s great simplicity & mild performance of the cure, is very remarkable. In what manner or mode, I should communicate it, to the Legislature of this Country, is what I would be happy in being inform’d of. With great Respect—I am Yr Excellency’s—Most Obedt Servt AL ,...
9396To George Washington from “A Friend to the People,” 13 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Have we not a right as a nation, to demand the Marquis La’ Fayette as a Citizen of our Country. The People love him—we all love him—and our God knows his goodness and virtue. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. For efforts to free Lafayette from prison, see Justus Erick Bollman to GW, 1 April , and La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt to GW, 25 July ; see also GW to La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 8...
9397To George Washington from the Philadelphia Society for the Information and Assistance of Persons Emigrating from Foreign … (Washington Papers)
You are now approached by a society thro their Committee whose province it is to take the Emigrant stranger by the hand on his arrival to our happy shores, and point him to such objects as may render him servicable to society and himself; and to assist those in more indigent circumstances until they can engage in useful employment. Such a society uniting with others of their fellow citizens in...