George Washington: A Collection

George Washington speaks for himself on behalf of liberty and the emerging American republic. Drawing extensively on his correspondence, this volume includes all of his presidential addresses, various public proclamations, his last will and testament, and the most comprehensive recompilation of the “discarded first inaugural” ever printed.
George Washington: A Collection, compiled and edited by W.B. Allen (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1988).
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Editor’s Note
- ABOUT THE FRONTISPIECE
- THE SOURCES OF THE TEXT
- Chronology
- George Washington A COLLECTION
- Prologue
- TO RICHARD HENRY LEE
- THE RULES OF CIVILITY AND DECENT BEHAVIOR IN COMPANY AND CONVERSATION
- The Rules of Bravery and Liberty
- 1756–1775
- ADDRESS TO HIS COMMAND
- TO GOVERNOR ROBERT HUNTER MORRIS
- TO FRANCIS DANDRIDGE
- TO GEORGE MASON
- TO THOMAS JOHNSON
- TO GEORGE WILLIAM FAIRFAX
- TO BRYAN FAIRFAX
- TO BRYAN FAIRFAX
- TO BRYAN FAIRFAX
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
- TO MRS. MARTHA WASHINGTON
- GENERAL ORDERS
- TO LIEUTENANT GENERAL THOMAS GAGE
- TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND OF BERMUDA
- TO THE INHABITANTS OF CANADA
- Tyranny: The Scourge of Liberty
- 1775–1777
- TO JOSEPH REED
- GENERAL ORDERS
- TO JOSEPH REED
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
- TO JOSEPH REED
- TO JOHN AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON
- GENERAL ORDERS
- EVENING ORDERS
- GENERAL ORDERS
- TO THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATORS
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
- TO LUND WASHINGTON
- PROCLAMATION
- TO AN UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT
- TO PRESIDENT JAMES WARREN
- TO MAJOR GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER
- The Passions of Men and the Principles of Action
- 1778–1780
- GENERAL ORDERS
- TO JOHN BANISTER
- TO JOHN AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON
- TO COMTE D’ESTAING
- TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS
- TO HENRY LAURENS
- TO BENJAMIN HARRISON
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
- TO THOMAS NELSON
- TO GEORGE MASON
- TO JAMES WARREN
- TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS
- SPEECH TO THE DELAWARE CHIEFS
- CIRCULAR TO THE STATES
- TO JOHN JAY
- A CONFERENCE BETWEEN THE CHEVALIER DE LA LUZERNE AND GENERAL WASHINGTON
- TO EDMUND PENDLETON
- TO JOSEPH JONES
- TO PRESIDENT JOSEPH REED
- TO PRESIDENT JOSEPH REED
- TO JOSEPH JONES
- CIRCULAR TO THE STATES
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
- CIRCULAR TO THE STATES
- Trials and Triumph
- 1780–1781
- TO GEORGE MASON
- TO WILLIAM FITZHUGH
- TO JAMES DUANE
- CIRCULAR TO THE NEW ENGLAND STATES
- TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN LAURENS
- GENERAL ORDERS
- TO JOHN SULLIVAN
- TO JOHN PARKE CUSTIS
- TO LUND WASHINGTON
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
- GENERAL ORDERS
- After Orders
- Washington’s Knowledge of Himself and His Army
- 1782–1783
- TO COLONEL LEWIS NICOLA
- TO THE SECRETARY AT WAR
- TO JOSEPH JONES
- TO MAJOR GENERAL NATHANAEL GREENE
- GENERAL ORDERS
- TO GOVERNOR BENJAMIN HARRISON
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
- TO JOSEPH JONES
- 77: SPEECH TO THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
- Washington’s Knowledge of His Countrymen
- 1783
- TO JOSEPH JONES
- TO MAJOR GENERAL NATHANAEL GREENE
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO THEODORICK BLAND
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- GENERAL ORDERS
- TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL TENCH TILGHMAN
- CIRCULAR TO THE STATES
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- The General Resigns
- 1783
- TO JOHN AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON
- TO REVEREND WILLIAM GORDON
- TO JAMES DUANE
- FAREWELL ORDERS TO THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES
- TO THE MINISTERS, ELDERS, DEACONS, AND MEMBERS OF THE REFORMED GERMAN CONGREGATION OF NEW YORK
- TO THE MERCHANTS OF PHILADELPHIA
- ADDRESS TO CONGRESS ON RESIGNING HIS COMMISSION
- The Citizen Stirs
- 1784–1786
- TO JONATHAN TRUMBULL, JR.
- TO GOVERNOR BENJAMIN HARRISON
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO DR. JAMES CRAIK
- TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO GOVERNOR BENJAMIN HARRISON
- TO THOMAS JOHNSON
- TO BENJAMIN HARRISON
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
- TO WILLIAM GRAYSON
- TO DAVID HUMPHREYS
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO EDMUND RANDOLPH
- TO JAMES McHENRY
- TO GEORGE MASON
- TO JAMES WARREN
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO HENRY LEE
- TO ROBERT MORRIS
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO THE SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- Making a Constitution
- 1786–1788
- TO JOHN JAY
- TO BUSHROD WASHINGTON
- TO HENRY LEE
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO BUSHROD WASHINGTON
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO GOVERNOR EDMUND RANDOLPH
- TO HENRY KNOX
- TO DAVID HUMPHREYS
- TO HENRY KNOX
- TO HENRY KNOX
- TO THE SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- TO GOVERNOR EDMUND RANDOLPH
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO HENRY KNOX
- SUMMARY OF LETTERS FROM JAY, KNOX, AND MADISON *
- Mr. Jay
- General Knox
- Mr. Madison
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO PATRICK HENRY
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO BUSHROD WASHINGTON
- TO DAVID STUART
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO GOVERNOR EDMUND RANDOLPH
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO JOHN ARMSTRONG
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO MARQUIS DE CHASTELLUX
- TO REVEREND FRANCIS ADRIAN VANDERKEMP
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO HENRY KNOX
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO BENJAMIN LINCOLN
- The Drama of Founding
- 1788–1789
- TO THE SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- TO JONATHAN TRUMBULL
- TO NOAH WEBSTER, ESQ.
- TO BENJAMIN LINCOLN
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO BENJAMIN LINCOLN
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO BENJAMIN LINCOLN
- TO FRANCIS HOPKINSON
- TO GEORGE STEPTOE WASHINGTON
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO THE MAYOR, CORPORATION, AND CITIZENS OF ALEXANDRIA
- Presidential Addresses
- 1789–1796
- 167: FRAGMENTS OF THE DISCARDED FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS
- sources of the fragments
- 168: THE FIRST INAUGURAL SPEECH
- 169: FIRST ANNUAL MESSAGE
- 170: SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE
- 171: THIRD ANNUAL MESSAGE
- FOURTH ANNUAL MESSAGE
- 173: THE SECOND INAUGURAL SPEECH
- 174: FIFTH ANNUAL MESSAGE
- 175: SIXTH ANNUAL MESSAGE
- 176: SEVENTH ANNUAL MESSAGE
- 177: EIGHTH ANNUAL MESSAGE
- 178: FAREWELL ADDRESS
- Washington the President
- 1789–1791
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO THE UNITED BAPTIST CHURCHES IN VIRGINIA
- TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
- TO THE ANNUAL MEETING OF QUAKERS
- 183: THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
- SKETCH OF A PLAN OF AMERICAN FINANCE
- TO CATHERINE MACAULAY GRAHAM
- TO DAVID STUART
- TO DAVID STUART
- TO THE HEBREW CONGREGATIONS
- TO THE ROMAN CATHOLICS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- TO THE HEBREW CONGREGATION IN NEWPORT
- TO THE HEBREW CONGREGATIONS OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
- TO THE CHIEFS AND COUNSELORS OF THE SENECA NATION
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS
- TO ARTHUR YOUNG
- Trials of Division
- 1792–1796
- TO JAMES MADISON
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
- TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE
- TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
- TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
- PROCLAMATION
- TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE
- PROCLAMATION
- PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY
- TO GOVERNOR HENRY LEE
- PROCLAMATION
- PROCLAMATION
- TO GOVERNOR HENRY LEE
- TO BURGESS BALL
- PROCLAMATION
- TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE
- TO JOHN JAY
- TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS
- TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- A Work Completed
- 1796–1799
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO THOMAS PINCKNEY
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- 228: TALK TO THE CHEROKEE NATION
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON
- TO JONATHAN TRUMBULL
- TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
- TO PATRICK HENRY
- Epilogue
- TO GOVERNOR JONATHAN TRUMBULL
- LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
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