Excerpt from Letter to Lord Mahon: Being an Answer to His Letter Addressed to the Editor of Washington's Writings That there may be no suspicion of a fraud upon history here, I will direct your attention to a letter touching the same subject written to a member of Congress a few days before the date of your quotation, and printed in its place. In that letter Washington says, For God's sake hurry the signers of money, that our wants may be supplied. It is a very singular case, that their signing cannot keep pace with our demands. (vol III. P. Whether this very singular case amounts to more or less than strange conduct, may be submitted to the calm judgment of any one, who has leisure to analyze the merits Of the question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.