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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) MESSAGE TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS; ON THE INJURY SUSTAINED BY AMERICAN COMMERCE FROM FRENCH CRUISERS. - The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIII (1794-1798)
MESSAGE TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS; ON THE INJURY SUSTAINED BY AMERICAN COMMERCE FROM FRENCH CRUISERS. - George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIII (1794-1798) [1892]Edition used:The Writings of George Washington, collected and edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890). Vol. XIII (1794-1798).
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- The Writings of George Washington.
- 1794.
- To Tobias Lear.
- To Henry Knox, Secretary of War.
- Letters to William Pearce, 1794. 1
- 1795.
- To Daniel Carroll.
- To Tobias Lear.
- To Eleanor Parke Custis.
- To Edmund Pendleton.
- To the Commissioners of the Federal District.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Robert Lewis.
- To Joseph Ceracchi. 1
- To Charles Carter.
- To Thomas Jefferson.
- To Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia.
- To Major-general Daniel Morgan.
- To Alexander White. [private.]
- To Secretaries of State, Treasury, and War, and the Attorney-general. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private and Perfectly Confidential.]
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State.
- To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War.
- To Ezekiel Price, Thomas Walley, William Boardman, Ebenezer Seaver, Thomas Crafts, Thomas Edwards, William Little, William Scollay, and Jesse Putnam, Selectmen of the Town of Boston.
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State.
- To Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury.
- To Edmund Randolph.
- To John Adams, Vice-president of the United States.
- To Robert R. Livingston.
- To James Ross.
- To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To John Jay. [private.]
- To George Cabot. [private and Confidential.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To Henry Knox.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To Edmund Randolph.
- To Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury. [private.]
- To Thomas Jefferson.
- To Edward Carrington. [private and Confidential.]
- To Patrick Henry.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War.
- To Edmund Randolph.
- To Edmund Randolph. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private and Confidential.]
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To John H. Stone, Governor of Maryland.
- Speech to Both Houses of Congress, December 8th, 1795. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Gouverneur Morris.
- Letters to William Pearce, 1795. 1
- 1796.
- To James Mchenry. [private.]
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To Dr. James Anderson.
- To Thomas Pinckney.
- To Gouverneur Morris.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To the Secretaries of State, the Treasury, War, and the Attorney General.
- Message to the House of Pepresentatives.
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To Henry Knox.
- To George Lewis.
- To Edward Carrington. [private.]
- To John Jay, Governor of New York.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Thomas Pinckney. [private.]
- To Cyrus Griffin.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To David Humphreys.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Gustavus Scott.
- To Thomas Jefferson.
- To Charles Lee, Attorney-general.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. [private and Confidential.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private and Confidential.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To the Duke De Liancourt.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To James Anderson.
- To James Monroe.
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To John Quincy Adams.
- To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. [private.]
- Farewell Address. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private]
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Charles Lee, Attorney-general. [private.]
- To George Washington Parke Custis. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To the Commissioners of the City of Washington.
- Speech to Both Houses of Congress, December 7th, 1796.
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To John H. Stone, Governor of Maryland.
- 1797.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To David Stuart.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To Benjamin Walker.
- Message to Both Houses of Congress; On the Injury Sustained By American Commerce From French Cruisers.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To the Commissioners of the City of Washington.
- To Henry Knox.
- To Jonathan Trumbull.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury.
- To William Heath.
- To Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith.
- To Thomas Pinckney.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury.
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To David Humphreys.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Samuel Washington.
- To William Strickland.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To General Lafayette.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To William Gordon.
- To John Langhorne.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To John Marshall.
- 1798.
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To James Mchenry. [private.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To William Augustine Washington.
- To Alexander White.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To John Nicholas.
- Remarks On Monroe’s “view of the Conduct of the Executive of the United States.” 1
- To Alexander White.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Ferdinand Ferot.
- To Timothy Pickering.
- To George Washington Parke Custis. 1
- To Mrs. Sarah Fairfax. 1
- Mrs. Washington to Mrs. Sarah Fairfax.
MESSAGE TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS; ON THE INJURY SUSTAINED BY AMERICAN COMMERCE FROM FRENCH CRUISERS.
January 19th, 1797.
At the opening of the present session of Congress, I mentioned that some circumstances of an unwelcome nature had lately occurred in relation to France; that our trade had suffered and was suffering extensive injuries in the West Indies from the cruisers and agents of the French Republic; and that communications had been received from its minister here, which indicated danger of a further disturbance of our commerce by its authority, and that were in other respects far from agreeable; but that I reserved for a special message a more particular communication on this interesting subject. This communication I now make.
The complaints of the French minister embraced most of the transactions of our government in relation to France from an early period of the present war; which, therefore, it was necessary carefully to review. A collection has been formed, of letters and papers relating to those transactions, which I now lay before you, with a letter to Mr. Pinckney, our minister at Paris, containing an examination of the notes of the French minister, and such information as I thought might be useful to Mr. Pinckney in any further representations he might find necessary to be made to the French government. The immediate object of his mission was to make to that government such explanations of the principles and conduct of our own, as, by manifesting our good faith, might remove all jealousy and discontent, and maintain that harmony and good understanding with the French Republic, which it has been my constant solicitude to preserve. A government, which required only a knowledge of the truth to justify its measures, could not but be anxious to have this fully and frankly displayed.
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