Writings Of George Washington Author:George Washington Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. Valley Forge, 23 April, 1778. I take the liberty to transmit to you a letter, which I received yesterday from Governor Tryon,... more » enclosing the drafts of the two bills I forwarded before, with his certificate of the manner in which they came to his hands, accompanied by his more extraordinary and impertinent request, that, through my means, the contents should be communicated to the officers and men of this army. This engine of the ministry, from Governor Livingston's account, is very industriously circulating copies of these drafts, in obedience to their and his royal master's mandates. The letter which I enclose, and a triplicate, came to hand at one time ; some future conveyance, it is probable, will present to me the duplicate. I would also take the liberty to enclose to you the " Evening Post," No. 475, which Governor Livingston was so obliging as to send to me yesterday. Were we not fully satisfied, from our experience, that there are no artifices, no measures too black or wicked for the enemy or their adherents to attempt, in order to promote their views, we might be astonished at the daring confidence, in defiance of the opinion of the world, manifested in a publication in this paper, purporting to be a resolution of Congress, of the 20th of February. This proceeding is infamous to the last degree, and calculated to produce the most baneful consequences by exciting an opposition in the people to our drafting system, and embarrassing at least the only probable mode now left us for raising men. I think it of great importance, that the forgery should be announced in the most public manner, and am themore induced to this opinion from Governor Livingston's account of the disagreeable operation it has had, and is likely to produce, if not contr...« less