| Show gr APO 21 7 STORY OY ale THE NT installment 25 towards the close of june washington ventured to go for or a little while to mount vernon for or rest at once there was trouble A privateer win was found taking arms and stores aboard in the tha very river at philadelphia jetterson jefferson allowed her to drop down to chester cheater believing genet 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 la in town when the president arrived what Is to be done in the case of the little sarah now at chester came hot questions after him Is IB the minister of the french republic to sot set the acts of this government at defiance with impunity and then threaten the executive with an appeal to the people what must the world think of such euch conduct and of theo tha united states in submitting to it circumstances press prees tor for decision and as you have had time to consider them I 1 wish to know your opinion upon them even before tomorrow ter the vessel may then be gone it was indeed too late to stop her a gross violation of neutrality had bad been permitted under the very eyes of the secretary of state washington stayed henceforth in philadelphia in personal control of affairs it was an appeal to the people that fina finally ily delivered genet into his hands washington revoked the of ono one duplaine french consul at boston for continuing to ignore the laws of neutrality tra lity genet declared he be would appeal from the president to jo the sov eov erelyn state of massachusetts rumors or of the silly threat got abroad and genet demanded of tho the president that he deny them washington answered with a chilling rebuke the correspondence was waa glien given to the public prints and at lust last the country saw the french franc mini minister stef for nhat ahat ho he was A demand for his recall had been resolved upon in the cabinet in august by F february 1794 the slow processes of diplomatic action were com complete and a successor had bad arrived genet did not venturo venture to return to his distracted country but he was as promptly and as readily forgotten in america some might find it possible to love prance france still but no one could any longer stomach genet washington had divined french affairs much too clearly to be tor for a moment tempted to think with anything but contempt of the french party who had truckled truc kled to genet it was his clear perception what the danger would bo be should america be dra drawn 1 into wrt th tho e gathering european wars that hat bad 1 led ed him to accept a second term as president it had been his bis wish to remain oily aly tour four years in the arduous office but bit he had bad no thought to leave leav a task unfinished know knew that he be was in the very midst of the critical bustness business of holding the country to the course which should make it a self respecting nation and consented to submit himself once more to the vote of the electors elected for f 0 r second term parties were organizing but there was no an 0 opposition to washington ile he received again a unanimous vote and john adams was again chosen vice president the second inauguration atio n march 1793 seemed but a routine confirmation of the first out but the elections elec tlona to congress showed a chango change setting in in the senate the avowed supporters of the administration had still a narrow majority but in the house they tell fell ten votes short of 0 control and washington had to put hla his policy of neutrality into execution against the mad genet with nothing but doubts how he should be supported the insane folly ot of genet saved caved the president serious embarrassment ras after all made the evidence that washington was right too plain to bo be missed by anybody and gave the country at last vision enough to see sec what was in tact fact the course of affairs abroad within and without unhappy france before that trying year 1793 was out an attack upon hamilton in the house though led by madison had failed jefferson had left the cabinet and the hands of those who definitely and heartily supported the president were war e not no t a title strengthened there was sharp bitterness between parties a bitterness sharper as yet indeed Ind ceil than their differences of view but the federalists feder allsta who stood to the support of washington and hamilton were able none the less leas to carry their more indispensable measure even an act of neutrality which made the presidents policy the explicit law of the land the sober second thought though t of the country was slowly coming about to their aid doubts about england the air might have cleared altogether had the right method of dealing with france been the only question that pressed but the III fortune of the time forced the president to seem not only the recreant friend of france but also the too complacent partisan of england great britain seemed as mischievously bent upon forcing the united states to war as genet himself had been she would not withdraw her garrie garrisons ons from tho the border it was believed that she bhe was Inc inciting ItIn 1 the indians to their savage inroads upon the tha border as the french had done in the old days she set herself to destroy neutral trade by seizing 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 sufferance and within tho the limits ot at a most moat jealous restriction it t gave a touch of added bitterness to the count rys feeling against her bar that she should thus levy as it were covert war upon the union while affecting to be at peace with it as if she eho counted on its weakness especially on the seas and congress would have taken measures ot at retaliation which must certainly have led to open hostilities had not washington intervened dispatching des patching john jay the trusted chief justice across sea as minister extraordinary to negotiate terms of 0 accommodation and so giving 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 it now new government in march 1791 congress congles 13 had passed an act laying taxes on distilled spirits part of hamiltons plan to show that the federal government could and would use its great authority the act bore nowhere so hard bard upon the people as in the vast tar far counties of pennsylvania and virginia beyond the mountains and there the very allegiance of the people had been but the other day doubtful as washington very well knew ilow how were they to get their corn to market over the long roads roada it they were not to bo be permitted to reduce its bulk and increase its value by turning it into whisky the tax seemed to them intolerable and the remedy plain they would not pay it they had not been punctilious to obey the laws of the states they would not begin obedience now by submitting to the worst laws of the united states at first they only amused themselves by tarring and feathering an here and there but resistance could not stop with that in the face of a government bent upon having its own way opposition organized itself and spread till the writs ol of federal courts had bad been defied by violent ent mobs and the western counties count lee of pennsylvania were fairly quick with incipient insurrection had sale and my aim has hag been and will continue to be neither to stretch nor to relax from them in any instance whatever unless compelled to it by imperious circumstances and that was what ho he meant the country to know whether tho the laws purpose was good or bad wrath over english treaty the next year the people knew what mr jay had done lie reached new york may 28 1798 1796 and the treaty he be brought with him was laid before the senate on the esth ot of juno june on the ad of july the country knew what he be had agreed to and the senate had ratified there was an instant outburst 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 veritable humiliation the northwestern posts were indeed to be given up at last the boundaries between english and american territory were to be determined by commissioners unrestricted commerce with england heri herself elf and a free direct trade with her ber fast east indian possessions were conceded but not a word was said bald about the of american seamen american americ a n claims tor for damages for 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 and under and at th the a cost of renouncing the right to export sugar molasses coffee cocoa or cotton to europe washington agreed with the senate that ratifications ot of the treaty ought not to bo be exchanged without a modify cation of the clau clauses seli respecting the west indian trade and october had bad come before new and better terms could be agreed upon but he had no doubt that the treaty as a whole ought to be accepted the opposition party in congress had refused to vote money for an effle efficient tent navy and so had bad made it impossible to check british agar aggressions a 8 they must now accept th this is unpalatable treaty as better at any r rate ate than war storm rages rage fiercely it was hard bard to stand steady in the storm the country took fire alre as it had done at the passage of the stamp act acl harder things had bad never been said of king and parliament than were now said of washington and his advisers many stout champions stood to his bis defence none stouter or more pori 4 ru A M k V V f 4 y xe pa j az 0 V MM washington and his family for two years washington watched the slow blow gathering of 0 the storm warning those who resisted keeping congress abreast of him la in preparation for action when the right time come letting all the country know what was afoot and prepare its mind for what was to come it must have won aoa him to a stern humor to learn that seven thousand armed men had gathered in mass meeting on brad docks field to defy him at last he be summoned ned an army of militia out of the states sent it straight to the lawless counties going with it himself till hr he learned there would be no serious resistance and taught the country what was waa back of federal law hamilton had had his way the country its lesson jefferlone Jeffer tone sono sneer the servile copyist of mr pitt thought he must have his alarms his insurrections and plot against the constitution sneered jefferson lit it aroused the favorite purposes of strengthening government and increasing tile the public debt and therefore an insurrection was announced and proclaimed and armed against and marched against but could never be found and all this under the sanction of a namo name which has done too much good not to be sufficient to cover coi harm barm also alao the powers of the tha executive of this country ardmore definite and better understood perhaps than those of 0 adv other country washington formidable than Il hamilton amilton no longer a member of the cabinet for imperative private interests had withdrawn him these six months and more but none the less redoubtable in the field of controversy for long nevertheless the battle went heavily against the treaty even washington for once stood a little while perplexed not doubting his bla 0 own 11 purpose indeed but very anxious what tile the outcome should be protests against his signing the treaty poured in upon him from every quarter of the country many of them earnest almost to the point of entreaty some hot with angry comment ills ilia reply when ho he vouchsafed any was always that his vary gratitude tor for the approbation of the country in the past fixed him but the more firmly in his resolution to deserve it now by obeying his bis own conscience it Is very desirable he wrote to hamilton to ascertain if possible after the paroxysm of the fever la Is a little abated what the real temper of the people Is concerning it for at present the cry against the treaty Is like that against a mad dog but he be showed himself very calm to the general eye making his uneasiness known only to his bla intimates the cruet cruel abuse heaped upon him cut him to the quick such exaggerated and indecent terms he cried could scarcely be applied to a nero a no corlous defaulter faulter di or even to a common comman pickpocket hut but the men who entered and stormed I 1 talked liked of usurpation and impeachment impeach peach mont ment called him base in incampo compe tent traitorous even were permitted to see not so much as the quiver ot of an eyelid as aa they watched him go steadily from step to step in the course he be had chosen abuse abuce it Is regretted at last the storm cleared the bitter months were over men at the ports saw lit length how much more reely freely trade ran under the terms of the treaty and remembered that while they had been abusing jay and maligning mali gning the president thomas pinckney pinchney ind had obtained a treaty from spain which settled the florida bound ary opened the without restriction secured a place of deposit at new orleans an and made commerce with the spaniards an aa free as commerce with the french freach the whole country felt a new impulse of prosperity the paroxysm of the fever ever was over and shame shama came upon the men who had bad so BO vilely abused the great president and had made him wish in his bis bitterness that he were in hit his grave grava rather than in the presidency who had bad oven even said ald that he be had played false fake in the revolution and had bad squandered publio public moneys who had gone beyond threats of impeachment and dared to hint at assassination they baw the end ot of his term approach and would have recalled their insults out dut they had bad alienated his great spirit forever become comes flat Fede federalist when he had seen parties forming in his cabinet in the quiet days das of hla his first term as president he had sought to placate differences had tried to bring hamilton and jefferson to a cordial understanding which should be purged of partisan bla mae s as he be meant hla his wa own judgments to be hail had deemed parties unnecessary and loyalty to the new constitution the only standard ot of preferment to office hut dat he be had come to another mind in the aba hard years yearn that followed 1 I shall not whilst I 1 have the honor bonor to administer the government bring a nian man into any office of at consequence knowingly he be declared in the closing days of 1796 1795 whose political tenets are adverse to the tenets which tho the general government are pursuing tor 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 party that stood for the constitution and abated nothing of its powers you could as soon scrub a blackamore white lie he cried as to change the principle of at a protest democrat he be wilt will leave nothing to a overturn v er turn the government of this country TO ne CONTINUED |
