From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 January 1794

To the United States Senate

United States 6. January 1794.

Gentlemen of the Senate,

I herewith transmit the copy of a Letter from The Secretary of War, stating the circumstances which have hitherto prevented any explanation of the fourth article of the Treaty with the Wabash Indians.1

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LS, DNA: RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Indian Relations; LB, DLC:GW.

1. For the enclosed letter, see Henry Knox to GW, 2 January. The Senate refused to ratify this treaty on 9 Jan. by a vote of 21 to 4 (Senate Executive Journal description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America: From the commencement of the First, to the termination of the Nineteenth Congress. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C., 1828. description ends , 146).

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Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 January 1794
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: United States Senate
Date: 6 January 1794

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Cite as: “From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 January 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-15-02-0032. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 15, 1 January–30 April 1794, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, p. 42.]

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