THE

LIFE

OF

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

COMMANDER IN CHIEF

OF THE

AMERICAN FORCES,

DURING THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THE INDEPENDENCE
OF HIS COUNTRY,

AND

FIRST PRESIDENT

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

COMPILED

UNDER THE INSPECTION OF

THE HONOURABLE BUSHROD WASHINGTON,

FROM

ORIGINAL PAPERS

BEQUEATHED TO HIM BY HIS DECEASED RELATIVE, AND NOW IN POSSESSION
OF THE AUTHOR.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN INTRODUCTION,

CONTAINING

A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE COLONIES PLANTED BY THE ENGLISH

ON THE

CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA,

FROM THEIR SETTLEMENT

TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THAT WAR WHICH TERMINATED IN THEIR
INDEPENDENCE.

BY JOHN MARSHALL.

VOL. V.

THE CITIZENS' GUILD

OF WASHINGTON'S BOYHOOD HOME

FREDERICKSBURG, VA.

1926

Storage.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

G. Washington again unanimously elected President....

War between Great Britain and France....Queries of

the President respecting the conduct to be adopted by

the American government....Proclamation of

trality....Arrival of Mr. Genet as minister from

France.... His conduct.... Illegal proceedings of the

French cruisers....Opinions of the cabinet....State of

parties....Democratic societies....Genet calculates upon

the partialities of the American people for France,

and openly insults their government....Rules laid

down by the executive to be observed in the ports of

the United States in relation to the powers at war....

The President requests the recall of Genet....British

order of 8th of June, 1793....Decree of the national

convention relative to neutral commerce.

CHAPTER II.

Meeting of congress....President's speech....His message

on the foreign relations of the United States....Re-

port of the Secretary of State on the commerce of the

United States....He resigns.... Is succeeded by Mr.

Randolph....Mr. Madison's resolutions founded on the

above report....Debate thereon....Debates on the sub-

ject of a navy...An embargo law....Mission of Mr.

Jay to Great Britain....Inquiry into the conduct of

the Secretary of the Treasury, terminates honourably

to him....Internal taxes....Congress adjourns.

CHAPTER III.

Genet recalled....Is succeeded by Mr. Fauchet....Gouver-

neur Morris recalled, and is succeeded by Mr. Mon-

iii

roe....Kentucky remonstrance....Intemperate resolu-

tions of the people of that state....General Wayne

defeats the Indians on the Miamis....Insurrection in

the western parts of Pennsylvania....Quelled by the

prompt and vigorous measures of the government....

Meeting of Congress.... President's speech....Demo-

cratic societies....Resignation of Colonel Hamilton....

Is succeeded by Mr. Wolcott....Resignation of General

Knox.... Is succeeded by Colonel Pickering....Treaty

between the United States and Great Britain....Con-

ditionally ratified by the President.... The treaty un-

popular....Mr. Randolph resigns.... Is succeeded by

Colonel Pickering....Colonel M'Henry appointed sec-

retary at war....Charge against the President rejected.

....Treaty with the Indians northwest of the Ohio....

With Algiers....With Spain....Meeting of congress....

President's speech....Mr. Adet succeeds Mr. Fauchet.

....The house of representatives call upon the Presi-

dent for papers relating to the treaty with Great

Britain....He declines sending them....Debates upon

the treaty making power....Upon the bill for making

appropriations to carry into execution the treaty with

Great Britain....Congress adjourns....The President

endeavours to procure the liberation of Lafayette.

CHAPTER IV.

Letters from General Washington to Mr. Jefferson.....

Hostile measures of France against the United

States.... Mr. Monroe recalled and General Pinckney

appointed to succeed him....General Washington's

valedictory address to the people of the United

States....The Minister of France endeavours to in-

fluence the approaching election.... The President's

speech to congress....He denies the authenticity of cer

tain spurious letters published in 1776....John Adams

elected President, and Thomas Jefferson Vice Presi

dent....General Washington retires to Mount Vernon.

....Political situation of the United States at this

period.... The French government refuses to receive

General Pinckney as Minister....Congress is con-

vened....President's speech.... Three envoys extraor-

dinary deputed to France....Their treatment....Meas-
ures of hostility adopted by the American government
against France....General Washington appointed
Commander-in-chief of the American army....His
death....And character.