United States Congress (May 8, 1789) the U.S. House of Representatives delivered the following address to President George Washington:
<The Representatives of the People of the United States present their congratulations on the event by which your fellow-citizens have attested the pre- eminence of your merit. You have long held the first place in their esteem....
We feel with you the strongest obligations to adore the Invisible Hand which has led the American People through so many difficulties, to cherish a conscious responsibility for the destiny of republican liberty; and to seek the only sure means of preserving and recommending the precious deposite in a system of legislation founded on the principles of an honest policy....
All that remains is, that we join in our fervent supplications for the blessings of Heaven on our country, and that we add our own for the choicest of these blessings on the most beloved of her citizens.> 1789US014
On Friday, May 8, 1789, President George Washington replied to the U.S. House of Representatives:
<Your very affectionate address produces emotions which I know not how to express....
For all beyond, I rely on the wisdom and patriotism of those with whom I am to co-operate, and a continuance of the blessings of Heaven on our beloved country.> 1789US015
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Endnotes:
1789US014. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Congress. May 8, 1789, in an address delivered by the United States House of Representatives to President George Washington. William Barclay Allen, ed., George Washington-A Collection (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, Liberty Fund, Inc., 7440 N. Shadeland, Indianapolis, Indiana 46250, 1988; based almost entirely on materials reproduced from The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799/John Clement Fitzpatrick, editor), pp. 465-467. John Clement Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington, from the Original Manuscript Sources 1749-1799, 39 vols. (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1931-1944).
1789US015. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Congress. May 8, 1789, Friday, in President George Washington's reply to the United States House of Representatives. William Barclay Allen, ed., George Washington-A Collection (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, Liberty Fund, Inc., 7440 N. Shadeland, Indianapolis, Indiana 46250, 1988; based almost entirely on materials reproduced from The Writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799/John Clement Fitzpatrick, editor), p. 467. John Clement Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington, from the Original Manuscript Sources 1749-1799, 39 vols. (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1931-1944).