SAME DATE, TO A FOREIGNER APPLYING FOR OFFICE.
"Dear Sir:—... It does not accord with the policy of this government to bestow offices, civil or military, upon foreigners, to the exclusion of our own citizens. Yours, &c.,
"G. Washington."
[Vol. XI., p. 392.]
INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL.
"War Department, Feb. 4, 1799.
"... For the cavalry, for the regulations restrict the recruiting officers to engage none except natives for this corps, and those only as from their known character and fidelity may be trusted."