1789–1825
Fragments of the Discarded First Inaugural Address
(1) We are this day assembled on a solemn and important occasion. (2) not as a ceremony without meaning, but with a single reference to our dependence (3) upon the
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(1) We are this day assembled on a solemn and important occasion. (2) not as a ceremony without meaning, but with a single reference to our dependence (3) upon the
“From George Washington to Arthur Young, 5 December 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/1hgk. Sir: In a letter which I addressed to you on the 15th of August, acknowledging the receipt
“From George Washington to the Seneca Chiefs, 29 December 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/pw39. I the President of the United States, by my own mouth, and by a written Speech
“Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank, 15 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/m4nm. Gentlemen: I thank you with great sincerity for your congratulations on
“From George Washington to Roman Catholics in America, c.15 March 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/vbg8. Gentlemen: While I now receive with much satisfaction your congratulations on my being called, by
Preliminary. Consider all requisitions heretofore made by Congress on the states, as if they had never been made. This gets rid of the adjustment of quotas for the past. The
“From George Washington to the Society of Quakers, 13 October 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/ojaa. Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the persons and consciences of men from
“From George Washington to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, 30 May-5 June 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/jw50. While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven as
“From George Washington to the United Baptist Churches of Virginia, May 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/quik. Gentlemen: I request that you will accept my best acknowledgements for your congratulation on
“From George Washington to Gouverneur Morris, 28 July 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/7396. Dear Sir: I have now before me your favors of the 22 of November and 24 of