Among the places sought after in these applications, I must not conceal that the office to which you particularly allude is comprehended.

This fact I tell you merely as matter of information.

My general manner of thinking, as to the propriety of holding myself totally disengaged, will apologize for my not enlarging farther on the subject.
"Though I am sensible that the public suffrage which places a man in office, should prevent him from being swayed, in the execution of it, by his private inclinations, yet he may assuredly, without violating his duty, be indulged in the continuance of his former attachments." [Sidenote: Meeting of the first congress.] The impotence of the late government, added to the dilatoriness inseparable from its perplexed mode of proceeding on the public business, and to its continued session, had produced among the members of congress such an habitual disregard of punctuality in their attendance on that body, that, although the new government was to commence its operations on the 4th of March, 1789, a house of representatives was not formed until the first, nor a senate until the 6th day of April.
At length, the votes for the president and vice president of the United States were opened and counted in the senate.

Neither the animosity of parties, nor the preponderance of the enemies of the new government in some of the states, could deprive General Washington of a single vote.

By the unanimous voice of an immense continent, he was called to the chief magistracy of the nation.