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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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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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