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George Washington
@georgewashington· Independent · VA· Feb 27, 1797

It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be conveyed to them.

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George Washington
@georgewashington· Independent · VA· Feb 27, 1797

If the bill passes into a law, the two companies of light dragoons will be from that moment legally out of service.

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George Washington
@georgewashington· Independent · VA· Jan 3, 1797

I lay before you for your consideration a treaty which has been negotiated and concluded on the 29th day of June last by Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, and George Clymer, commissioners on behalf of the United States, with the Creek Indians.

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George Washington
@georgewashington· Independent · VA· Dec 11, 1796

None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.

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George Washington
@georgewashington· Independent · VA· Dec 11, 1796

To such men I shall cheerfully yield the palm of genius and talents to serve our common country.

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George Washington
@georgewashington· Independent · VA· Dec 11, 1796

Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and its approbation is my abundant reward.

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