| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1836 - 600 pages
...been heard, unless the misrepresentations of party, or at best partial meetings, can be called so. for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 596 pages
...been heard, unless the misrepresentations of party, or at best partial meetings, can be called so. I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the... | |
| François Guizot - Presidents - 1840 - 262 pages
...vigorous uniformity of purpose and conduct in his administration. " I shall not, whilst I have the honour to administer the government, bring a man into any...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide*." And in 1795 he wrote as follows to Gouverneur Morris, then Minister of the United States in London.... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1848 - 604 pages
...been heard, unless the misrepresentations of party, or at best partial meetings, can be called so. I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer...my .opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the... | |
| 1849 - 770 pages
...believing that they would lend an honest support to the government. "I shall not," said he in 1795, "whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into ¡vn office of consequence, knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures which the... | |
| Aaron Venable Brown - Tennessee - 1854 - 608 pages
...Mr. Pickering, dated September, 1795, he uses the following emphatic language : " I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the Government, bring...in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide : that it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment - Civil service - 1868 - 240 pages
...Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War, (private,) Mount Vernon, September 27, 1795: I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the government, bring...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the... | |
| Robert Samuel Rantoul - 1881 - 690 pages
...Timothy Pickering, his trusted Secretary of War, dated September twenty-Seventh, 1795, wherein he says : "I shall "not, whilst I have the honor to administer...whose political tenets are adverse to the measures winch the general government are pursuing." (Sparks, vol. xi, p. 74.) This, it will be observed, is... | |
| Republican Congressional Committee - Campaign literature - 1882 - 266 pages
...dated "Mt. Vernon, 27th September, 1795," to Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War, Washington urges : " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements Is most certain. But of two men equally well afl'ected to the... | |
| Campaign literature - 1882 - 260 pages
...ated "Mt. Vernon, 27th September, 1795," to Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War, Washington urges: " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer...my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass its movements is most certain. But of two men equally well affected to the... | |
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