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Show tL BY THE PRESIDENT ,C was believed that she was Inciting . the Indians to their savage luroads upon the border, as the French had done in the old days; she set herself to destroy neutral trade by selling all vessels that carried the products of the French Islands or were laden with provisions for their ports; she would admit American vessels to her own West Indian harbors only upon suffersnee, and within the limits of a most Jealous restriction. It gave a touch of added bitterness to the country's feeling against her that she should thus levy as It were covert war upon the Union while affecting af-fecting to be at peace with It, as If she counted on Its weakness, especially especial-ly on the seas; and congress would have taken meivtmres of retaliation, which must certainly have led to open hobiHltlea, had not Washington Intervened, Inter-vened, deppittchlng John Jay. the trusted chief Justice, across sea as minister extraordinary, to negotiate terms of accommodation; and so glv-lug glv-lug pause to the trouble. Whisky Riots Suppressed. While the country waited upon the negotiation, it witnessed a wholesome object lesson In the power of its new government In March, 1731, congress had passed an act laying taxes on distilled dis-tilled spirits: 'twas part of Hamilton's plan to show that the federal government govern-ment could and would use Its great authority. The act bore nowhere so hard upon the people as In the vast far counties of Pennsylvania and Virginia, Vir-ginia, beyond the mountains and there the very allegiance of the people peo-ple had been but the other day doubtful, doubt-ful, as Washington very well knew. How were they to get their corn to market over the long roads If they were not to be permitted to reduce Its bulk and Increase Its value by turning turn-ing It into whisky? The tax seemed to them Intolerable, and the remedy plain. They would not pay It. They had not ben punctilious to obey the laws of the states; they would not begin be-gin obedience now by submitting Ui the worst laws of the United States. At first they only amused themselves them-selves by tarring and feathering an exciseman ex-ciseman here and there; but resist' ance could not stop with that in the face of a government bent upon having hav-ing Its own way. Opposition organised Itself and spread, till the writs f federal courts had been defied by lent mobs and the western counties of Pennsylvania were fairly quick with Incipient insurrection. had said, "and my aim has been, and will continue to be, neither to stretch nor to relax from them In any instance in-stance whatever, unless compelled to It by Imperious circumstances," and that was what he meant the country to know, whether the law's purpose was good or bad Wrath Over English Treaty. The next yesr the people knew what Mr. Jay had done. He reached New York May 2S, 1790; and the treaty he brought with him was laid before the senate on the Sth of June. On the 2d of July the country knew what he had agreed to and the senate had ratified. There was an Instant outburst out-burst of wrath. It swept from one end of the country to the other. The treaty yielded so much, gained so little, that to accept It seemed a verliablii humiliation. The northwestern northwest-ern posts were, indeed, to be given up at liint; the boundaries between Kng IIhu and American territory were to be deiernilned by commissioners; unrestricted un-restricted commerce with Kngtand herself, and a free direct trade with her Fast Indian possessions, were conceded; con-ceded; but not a word was said about the Impressment of American seamen; American claims for damages for tin-coveted tin-coveted trade with the West Indian referred to a commission, along with American debts to Englishmen; the coveted trade with the West Indies Islands was secured only to vessels of seventy tons and under, and at the cost of renouncing the right to export ex-port sugar, molasses, coffee, cocoa, or cotton to Europe, Washington agreed with the senate that ratifications of the treaty ought not to be exchanged without a modification modifi-cation of the clauses respecting the West Indian trade, and October had come before new and better terms could be agreed upon; but he had no doubt that the treaty as a w hole ought to be accepted. The opposition party In congress bad, refused to vote money for an efficient navy, and so had made It impossible to check Hrltlsh aggressions; aggres-sions; they must now accept this unpalatable un-palatable treaty as better at any rate titan hvar. Storm Rages Fiercely. It Was hard to stand steady In the storm. The country took fire aa It had done at the passage of the Stamp Act ' Harder things had never been said of king and parliament than were now said of Washington and his advisers. ad-visers. Many atout champions stood to his defence cone stouter or more Put the men who sneered and stormed, talked of usurpation and Im peachment, called him base, Incompe tent, traitorous even. were permitted to see not so much as the quiver of an eyelid as they watched him go steadily from step to step lu the course be had chosen. Abuse Is Regretted. At last the storm cleared; the bitter months were over; men at the ports Saw at length how much more freely trade ran under the terms of the treaty, and remembered that, while they had beu abusing Jay and maligning the president, Thomas 1'lnckney had obtained a treaty from Spain which settled the Florida boundary, bound-ary, opened the Mississippi without restriction, re-striction, secured a place of deposit at New Orleans, and made commerce with the Spaniards aa free as cons merca with the French. . Tha whole country felt a new In pulse of prosperity. The "paroxysil of the fever" was over, and sham came upon the men who had so vilely abused the great president and had made htm wish. In his bitterness, that he were In his grave rather than in the presidency; who had even said that he had played false In the Revolution, Revo-lution, and had squandered public moneys; who had gone beyond threats of Impeachment and dared to hint at assassination! They saw the end of his term approach, and would have recalled their Insults. Hut (hey had alienated his great spirit forever. Becomes Flat Federalist. When he had seen parties forming In his cabinet In the quiet days of his first term as president, he had sought to placate differences; had tried to bring Hamilton and Jefferson to a cordial understanding which should he purged of partisan bias, as he meant his own Judgments to be; had deemed parties unnecessary and loyalty to the new constitution the only standard of preferment to office. Hut be had coma to another mind In the hard yeara that followed. "I shall not, whilst I have the hon-ft hon-ft U administer the government, V.ng a man Into any office of consequence conse-quence knowingly," he declared In the closing days of 1795, "whose political lenets are adverse to the tenets which the General government are pursuing; for this, In my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide"; and he left the presidency ready to call himself very flatly a "Federalist" of the par ty that stood for the constitution and abased nothing o.V its powers. "You could as soon scrub a blacka-more blacka-more white," he cried, "as to change the principle of a profest Iemocrat" "be will leave nothing uuattempted to overturn the government of this country." coun-try." (TO UK CONTINUED.) When Jove Threatens. Engage the people by their affections, affec-tions, convince their reason and they will be loyal from the only prin clple that can make loyalty sincere, vigorous or rational a conviction that It la to their truest Interest, and that their government Is for tbeli good. Constraint Is the natural par ent of resistance, and a pregnant proof that reason Is not on the aids of those w ho use It You must all remember re-member Luclsn's pleasant story; Jupiter and a countryman were walking walk-ing togeti v, conversing with great freedom and familiarity upon the subject sub-ject of heaven and earth. The countryman coun-tryman listened with attention and acquiescence, while Jupiter strove only to convince him; but hsppenlng to hint a doubt, Jupiter turned hastily around and threatened him with hit thunder. "Ah! ah!" aaya the countryman, "now, Jupiter, I know that you are wrong; you are alwaya wrong when you appeal to your thunder." From Thomas, Lord Ersklne's Argument In behalf of Thomas Paine at bis trial for libel. Braved Death for Small Sum. A meek heathen "Chink" Touted a gang of robbers at Brooklyn, N. Y., recently. Jow Chang, the hero, la a placid "wasbee-wsshee" type of Oriental Orien-tal without much fight n him, but when two holdup men went after bis cash register In bis Brooklyn chop suey restaurant esrly In the morning the spirit of his honorable ancestors called him valiantly to battle. When the robbers ordered him to hold up bis hands, Chong obeyed with a whimper whim-per of fear, but as one of the men started for the cash register Chang's meekness vanished. With a squeal of rsge he seised a carving knife and leaped to tha defence of his exchequer, flashing right and left Jow bad one of the men on the Boor bleeding like a slaughtered pig. The other, badly cut. ran Into the street, but seeing a policeman coming, raised his revoP ver to his temple and shot himself. He may die. Jow was badly bruised In the fight, but the policeman found blm tenderly counting the money in the cash register. It waa all there 1137. The "Intimate Friend.! "The Information about the cabinet," cabi-net," a dispatch ssys. "was not obtained ob-tained from Presidentelect Wilson, but from an Intimate friend who Is aboard the Wilson trsln for part of tha Journey." There Is always an "tattmate friend" around to prevent any secret from being be-ing kept too closely. Hut far bo It from my newspaper to make unkind remarks re-marks about him. He ts one of the most useful persons In public life, and iTery newspaper la under Infinite obligations ob-ligations to him. Here's a health to the "Intimate Friend." who la la a position to know, tut for ob'loua reasons cannot per nit himself to be quoted or his asms ks be esed. Kansas Cltr Star. Installment 25 Towards the close of June, Washington Wash-ington ventured to go for a little while to Mount Vernon for rest At once there was trouble. A privateer was found taking arms and stores aboard In tha very river at I'hlladelvbla; Jefferson Jef-ferson allowed her to drop down to Chester, believing Oenet Instead of the agents of the government; and she was upon the point of getting to sea before Washington could reach the seat of government Jefferson was not In town when the president arrived. ' "What Is to be done in the case of the 'Little Sarah.' now at Chester?" came Washington's hot questions after him. "Is the minister of the French republic to set the acts of this government gov-ernment at defiance with Impunity? And then threaten tho executive with an appeal to the people? What must the world think of such conduct and of the United States In submitting to It? Circumstances press for decision; and as you have had time to consider them, I wish to know your opinion upon them, even before tomorrow, for the vessel may then be gone." It was Indeed too late to stop her; a gross violation of neutrality had been permitted under the very eyes of the secretary of state. Washington stayed henceforth In Philadelphia, In personal person-al control of affairs. It was an appeal ap-peal to the people that Anally delivered deliv-ered Oenet into bis hands. Washington Washing-ton revoked the exequatur of one Du-plaine, Du-plaine, Freuch consul at Boston, for continuing to Ignore the laws of neutrality; neu-trality; Genet declared be would appeal ap-peal from the president to the sovereign sov-ereign state of Massachusetts; rumors of the silly threat got abroad, and Genet demanded of the president that he deny them. Washington answered w ith a chilling rebuke; the correspondence correspond-ence was given to the public prints; and at last the country saw the French minister for what he was. A demand for his recall had been resolved re-solved upon In the cabinet in August; by February, 1794, the slow processes of diplomatic action were complete,, and a successor had arrived. Oenet did not venture to return to his distracted distract-ed country; but he was as promptly and as readily forgotten In America. Some might find It possible to love France still; but no one could any longer stomach Oenet. Washington had divined French affairs af-fairs much too clearly to be for a moment mo-ment tempted to think with anything but contempt of the French ptrty who had truckled to Genet. It was his clear perception what the danger would be should America be drawn Into In-to the gathering European wars that had led him to accept a second term as president It had been his wish to remain only four years In the arduous office; but he had no thought to leave a task unfinished; knew that he was In the very midst of the critical business busi-ness of holding the country to the course which should make It a self-respecting self-respecting nation; and consented to submit himself once more to the vote of the electors. Elected for Second Term. Parties were organizing, but there waa no opposition to Washington. He received again a unanimous vote; and John Adams was again chosen vice-president vice-president The second Inauguration (March, 1793) seemed but a routine confirmation of the first Hut the elections to congress showed a change setting In. In the aenate the avowed supporters of the administration admin-istration had still a narrow majority; but In the house they fell ten votes short of control; and Washington bad to put bis policy of neutrality Into execution ex-ecution against the mad Genet with nothing but doubta how he should be supported. The Insane folly of Genet saved the president serious embarrassment embar-rassment after all; made the evidence that Washington was right too plain to be missed by anybody; and gave the country at last vision enough to see wbst was In fact the course of affairs abroad, within and without un-hippy un-hippy France. Xefore that trying year 1793 waa out an attack upon Hamilton In the aouse, though led by Madison, bsd failed; Jefferson bsd left the cabinet; and tbe hands of those who definitely aad heartily supported the president were not a title strengthened. There was sharp bitterness between parties a bitterness sharper as yet Indeed, than their differences of view; but tbe "federalists," who stood to the supiKirt of Washington and Hamilton, were able, none the less, to carry their more Indispensable measure even an act of neutrality which made the president's pres-ident's policy tbe explicit law of the land. The sober second thought of the country was slowly coming about to their aid Doubta About England. The air might have cleared altogether alto-gether had tbe right method of dealing deal-ing with France been tbe only question ques-tion that pressed; but the III fortune of tbe time forced the president to seem not only tbe recreant friend of France, but also the too complacect partisan of England. Great Britain seemed aa mischievously mischiev-ously bent upon forcing the United State to war aa Genet blmaeif had bn She would not withdraw her gaxrtfcns from the border ooeta: It If '; I': y m-y- ,..A.!t.awJ... - -- . . ..-,awr a-ya .''.! 4M t, Washington and His Family. I For two years Washington watched (be slow gathering of tbe storm, warning warn-ing those who resisted, keeping congress con-gress abreast of htm In preparation for action when tbe right time shotfld come, letting all the country know what waa afoot and prepare Its mind for what was to come. It must have won blm to a stern humor to learn that seven thousand armed men had Fathered In mass-meeting on Brad dock's field to defy him. At last he summoned an army of militia out of he states, sent It straight to the lawless law-less counties, going with It himself till he learned there would be no serious resistance and taught the country what was back of federal law. Hamilton Hamil-ton had bad hla way, the country Its lesson. JafTerson'e Sneer. "The servile copyist of Mr. Pitt thought be must have hla alarms, his Insurrections and plots against the constitution." sneered Jefferson. "It aroused the favorite purposes of strengthening government and Increasing Increas-ing the peblic debt; and therefore an Insurrection was announced and proclaimed pro-claimed and armed against and marched against, but could never be found. And all this under the sanction sanc-tion of a name which has done too much good not to be sufficient to cover cov-er harm also." "The power of the executive of this country are more definite and better bet-ter understood, perhaps, than those of an other country." Washington formidable than Hamilton, no longer a member of the cabinet for Imperative private Interests had withdrawn blm theae six months snd more, but none the less redoubtable In the field of controversy. For long, nevertheless, tbe battle went heavily against the treaty. Even Washington, for once, stood a little while perplexed, not doubting bis own purpose, indeed, but very anxious what the outcome should be. Pro-testa Pro-testa against bis signing the treaty poured la upon him from every quarter quar-ter of the country; many of them earnest almost to tbe point of en-trcity, en-trcity, some hot with angry comment His reply, when he voucbaafrd any, was always that his very gratitude for the approbation of tbe country in the past fixed blm but tbe more firmly firm-ly In his resolution to deserve It now 1 by obeying his own coRsclence 1 "It Is very desirable," be wrote to Hamlkon, "to ascertain. If possible, 1 after tbe paroxysm of the fever Is a ' little abated, what the real temper of tbe people la concerning It; for at 1 present tbe cry against tbe tresty Is 1 like that against a mad dog"; but be 1 showed himself very calm to tbe gen- 1 era! eye. making his uneasinees 1 known only to his Intimates. Tbe orue! abuae heaped upon him cut him 1 to the quick. "Such exaggerated and Indecent terms." he cried, "could I scarcely be applied to a Nero, a no- I torious defaultec or even te a com i bob pickpocket" l |