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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) TO OLIVER WOLCOTT, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. - The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIII (1794-1798)
TO OLIVER WOLCOTT, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. - 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.
TO OLIVER WOLCOTT, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
Mount Vernon, 29 May, 1797. Dear Sir,
I have received your letter of the 18th instant with its enclosures, and I thank you for both. The President has in my opinion placed matters upon their true ground in his speech to Congress. The crisis calls for an unequivocal expression of the public mind, and the speech will mediately or immediately bring this about. Things ought not, indeed cannot, remain long in their present state; and it is time the people should be thoroughly acquainted with the political situation of this country, and the causes which have produced it, that they may either give active and effectual support to those, to whom they have intrusted the administration of the government, if they approve the principles on which they have acted, or sanction the conduct of their opponents, who have endeavored to bring about a change by embarrassing all its measures, (not even short of foreign means).
We are waiting with no small degree of solicitude, for the answer of the house of Representatives, that an opinion may be formed from its complexion of the temper of that body since its renovation.
Thus much for our own affairs, which, maugre the desolating scenes of Europe, might continue in the most happy, flourishing, and prosperous train, if the harmony of the Union were not endangered by the internal disturbers of its peace. With respect to the nations of Europe, their situation appears so awful, that nothing short of Omnipotence can predict the issue; although every human mind must feel for the miseries it endures. Our course is plain; they who run may read it. Their’s is so bewildered and dark, so entangled and embarrassed, and so obviously under the influence of intrigue, that one would suppose, if any thing could open the eyes of our misled citizens, the deplorable situation of those people could not fail to accomplish it. * * * With sincere and affectionate regard, I am always yours.
“I had some hopes that the late conduct of our great and magnanimous allies would have produced but one sentiment in the Representatives of the people. I could not be otherwise than disappointed therefore (in a degree, for there are some, I fear, who under all circumstances are resolved to support their measures) at the opposition by so great a minority to the reported address. But so it has been; and, so it will be—whilst men are actuated by different motives and views. It is to be hoped, notwithstanding, that even those who are so tenacious of the honor, dignity, and interest of our good friends, will not be averse from guarding against their enmity by the adoption of such means as will enable the Executive to defend the country, against a continuation of the outrages it has sustained on our commerce.—This being the most effective if not the only means to obtain their friendship, or forbearance.—If justice is lacking we ought to render it,—on the other hand let our rights be claimed, and maintain’d with a dignified firmness.—No just offence can be taken at this, by France whilst it must be approved by all the rest of the world.”—Washington to Pickering, 12th June, 1797.
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