 | George Washington - 1894 - 510 pages
...independent as the air. POLITICAL SUICIDE. I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the Government, bring a man into any office of consequence, knowingly,...adverse to the measures which the General Government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. PRIVATE INCLINATION AND... | |
 | Winifred Sercombe - 1894 - 178 pages
...government. "I shall not, whilst I (2) have the honor to administer the government, "he writes to Pickering, "bring a man into any office of consequence, knowingly,...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing: for this in ray opinion would be a sort of political suicide". It was this statement,... | |
 | Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 268 pages
...Pickering, Secretary of War, he wrote : " I shall not whilst I have the honor to administer the Government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing ; for this, would be a sort of political suicide." " While reaching the summit of great... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1896 - 830 pages
...wrote to Timothy Pickering, September 27, 1795, "whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of 1 In explanation of Jefferson's statement... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1897 - 384 pages
...SEPTEMBER 27. At Mount Vernon : " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
 | 1897 - 628 pages
...SEPTEMBER 27. At Mount Vernoii : " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
 | 1897 - 632 pages
...SEPTEMBER 27. At Mount Vernon : " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - 1897 - 488 pages
...have the honor to administer the government, knowingly, bring a man into any office of consequence, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures which the General Government is pursuing." To Elbridge Gerry Jefferson wrote the following platform of his principles : " I do then, with sincere... | |
 | 1898 - 456 pages
...secretarv of war when he declared: "'l shall not, while I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence, knowingly,...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1898 - 430 pages
...SEPTEMBER 27. At Mount Vernon : " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
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I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be... 
