Correspondence [Contin.] 1795-1804 Volume 6; 1777 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to Public Creditors. 1790. Vindication of Funding System. 1791 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ... that he is viewed as a brave, intelligent, and enterprising officer; and, if report be true, that no officer in the late American army made tactics and the art of war so much his study. To this account of him may be added, that his character has received much celebrity by his conduct as minister and envoy at Paris. Under this view of the subject, my wish to put you first, and my fear of losing him, is not a little embarrassing. But why? for after all it rests with the President to use his pleasure. I shall only add, therefore, that as the welfare of the country is the object I persuade myself we all have in view, I shall.-..-.. guinely hope that smaller matters will yield to measures wliiclx have a tendency to promote it. I wish devoutly that either of you or any other fit character had been nominated in my place; for no one can make a greater sacrifice, at least of inclination, than your ever affectionate Geo. Washington. PICKERING TO HAMILTON. Phii.adklphia, July 16, 1708. Dear Sir: I have just received from General Washington an answer to my letter which I showed you. The General appears to have contemplated attentively the nature of the impending war with France, and that the Southern States (if any part of the Union) will be invaded. Admitting this idea to be correct, the General says: "The inference I am going to draw from placing Col. Hamilton over General Pinckney is natural and obvious. The latter is an officer of high military reputation, fond of the profession, spirited, active and judicious, and much advanced in the estimation of the public by his late conduct as minister and envoy at Paris. With these pretensions, and being senior to Colonel Hamilton, he would not, I am morally certain, accept a junior appointment; and its influence would...